Diana Hooper
2644 Moonshine Park Road
Logsden, OR 97357
diana@essentialsoflife.net
EssentialsOfLife.net

Essential Oils vs. Dried Herbs

I've been studying and using herbs for healing for 30 years, and I've been teaching for 20. So for many years, I used herbs, homeopathics, and nutrition to help people with their health challenges, and they worked.

Once I discovered Young Living and the oils, I was amazed at how quickly I got results. What used to take days, weeks, or months, was now happening in minutes. That's one of the main things that piqued my interest and why I began to study with Gary Young.

What I learned is that when herbs are grown for the purpose of creating supplements, they are not usually grown organically. Then they are harvested and taken into warehouses where they are dried with big blowers. Then they're chopped, capped, bottled, and packaged, and weeks, months, or even years later, we buy them and take them. And they STILL help us, but it usually takes awhile.

Have you ever dried a rose? What did it smell like after you dried it? Not much? That's because the essential oil of rose is very delicate and vaporizes easily into the air. Once it's dried, very little of the essential oil is still left.

It's the same with herbs. Once an herb is dried, it only contains 3 - 5% of its essential oil, and it's the ESSENTIAL OIL that gets us well! And in the process of drying the herb, many molecules found in the essential oil of the plant are lost altogether. So yes, dried herbs are very helpful, because that's what we've used for centuries in healing. But the truth is that therapeutic grade essential oils are a QUANTUM LEAP from dried herbs, in my humble opinion. They're plant concentrates, and they're clean (of course the plants have to be grown organically), pure (we even take many of them internally), and non-toxic (very few exceptions here).

A drop of peppermint oil is equivalent to 28 cups of peppermint tea! A person simply could not drink that much tea to get the same results! And I can use several drops of peppermint oil on the bottom of my kids' feet when they have a fever which takes it down within a few minutes! Once I used about 5 drops of peppermint oil on each of my son, Chris's, feet when he had a fever of 104, (he was about 12 at the time), and later realized that since I had used 10 drops total, that would have been equivalent to him drinking 280 cups of peppermint tea!!! (Disclaimer here - Start with a small amount and dilute for babies and the elderly, or use a very small amount for them because their skin may be sensitive, and it's usually safer to put the oil on the bottoms of the feet.)

Another interesting fact - It takes 5,000 pounds of rose petals to distill one pound of rose oil, making it one of the most expensive and precious oils we have. If those rose petals were laden with chemicals and pesticides, the oil would actually be toxic, which will explain why, when you're at the mall, and you pass some stores claiming to have therapeutic aromatherapy, you get an instant headache. Your body knows.

So it's an honor for me to be a part of pioneering this exquisite modality, and teaching people in such a way as to positively affect the health of future generations!

Loan your brother an Essential 7 Kit, a Golden Touch 1 Kit, (or the kit of oils that comes in the new Essential Oil Distributor Kit), and an Essential Oils Desk Reference, and then, just try to take them back in a week!

I hope everyone's having a fabulous weekend. Have you put your oils on today? If not, do it now.

Vicki Opfer

 Testimonial

A young lady that comes in sometimes to help us out in the store has/had a problem with her left foot for several years. I had told her about my experiences & told her that I would put some PanAway on her foot to see if it would help her any at all. She reminded me today about my offer. I took my bottle of PanAway out to the store (we live right behind the store) & applied 3 drops. One on the main site on top of her foot, one on the arch of her foot & one on the outside of her foot. I told her that we might have to try some lemongrass tomorrow since the problem was of such long standing. I figured that the ligaments would also be involved when she told me that she had been the manager of a restaurant in California & had been on her feet for 12 to 14 hrs per day. She told me that she would almost be in tears at night when she closed.

Tonight about 9 P.M. she called me. She wanted to know if I was a voodoo priestess? I asked her what was going on? She told me that she had NO PAIN in her foot for the first time in many years ... since she had been the manager. She asked if the PanAway was spendy? I said that I thought that it was. She said "Well order me some ... I will need a vat of it!" I told her that by the drop it would last her a long time. She also said that she had a spot on the bottom of the foot right behind the next to the big toe that had been numb for several years. I was about to recommend lemongrass when she said "For the first time ... I have feeling at that spot!!!"

Elaine Kitcher

This information is intended for educational purposes only. It is not provided in order to diagnose, prescribe, or treat any illness or disease of the human body.