Plants contain complex and powerful substances known as essential oils. These are aromatic liquids derived from shrubs, flowers, trees, roots, bushes, and seeds. These distinctive components defend plants from insects, harsh environmental conditions, and disease. They are also vital for a plant to grow, live, evolve, and adapt to its surroundings. Referred to as the essence of the plant, pure essential oils not only protect the plant but also determine its aroma.
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Gathering
- "Gathering" keeps me REALLY focused. It feels as if this oil literally 'grabs' my head with its invisible hands and make me look in one direction. I use it on my forehead if I have to think hard, and on my ears if I have to listen hard. In one of the tapes
- Gary Young talks about Gathering. The blend was specifically designed for focusing, but it helps migraines because it balances the brain's right hemisphere with the left hemisphere. If you are strong on the left brain (being mathematical, logical), then you rub it on the left temple clockwise three times and then come across to the right side of the temple and rub it three times. What this does energy-wise is to help integrate the left brain with the right brain.
Gentle Baby
- It clears up diaper rash faster than anything else. But it will BURN if not diluted. A 10:1 dilution works fine.
- I rubbed it neat on my tummy after my second baby was born by C-section. I put it on the bottom of me feet too. It really helped!
- I rub it neat on the kid’s eczema spots.
- Diluted I used it on cradle cap (wow!).
- I dilute it (4:1) and massage the baby all over if she’s extra fussy or cross or not feeling well.
- After I had my daughter by C-Section, my legs swelled up with Edema. They were so swollen for several days and my OB said eventually it would go away. It didn’t after several days, and I was tired of having no shin bones. GB was the only oil I had, so I rubbed GB on my legs and they were back to normal within 24 hours.
- When I had severe menstrual cramps, I rubbed Gentle Baby over the uterine area, and in about 20 minutes, the cramps had subsided to very mild.
- Rub on pregnant tummy daily to prevent stretch marks.
- I love it and use it mainly in conjunction with Valor for my going to bed and getting a good night sleep ritual. I put Gentle Baby on my shoulders, neck and chest and sometimes (esp. when I'm traveling) I'll take a few drops in my hands and brush them over my pillow. The smell is heavenly.
- I have also used it for headaches or neck-aches, just a few drops on whichever area is ailing you, and often within minutes, there is relief.
- There have also been times I've used it like you'd use Di-tone, just over your belly for any stomach problems.
- My sister has used it to help her kids either settle down at the end of the day or help pull them out of a meltdown. Sometimes, just a few drops on your hands and then just holding the child or gently touching their heads or feet also has an effect (of course, with the parents' permission).
- It's also what I diffuse at night in our bedroom, along the lines of the whole winding down at the end of the day ritual.
- My daughter Marlena had to have her cervix sewed shut so she could carry her second baby, She was having constant contraction all the time. To stop them and to ease the pain she would apply Lavender and Gentle Baby to the lower abdomen and lower back and crawl into a tub of hot water. This would stop the contractions altogether. She had to do this for 8 1/2 months before the baby was born. She had the same problem with the first baby but she didn't have her cervix sewed shut then. It was the use of Lavender and Gentle Baby that kept her from having the baby too prematurely. This baby was born at 8 months.
Geranium
- Geranium on the palm sides of your fingers. Use it as often as needed. Great for sinus stuff and allergies.
- Helps with Shingles
- For pain relief.
- Use in pool instead of chlorine.
- I have camped in the New Jersey Pine Barrens and had great success with Geranium to repel ticks and chiggers. I literally doused myself twice a day in the oil.
- Melaleuca and geranium killed MRSA (Antibiotic resistant staph) in BBC research study
- Geranium and Helichrysum stopped my PLACENTA SITE from bleeding after a placental abruption of over 1/3 of my placenta... and saved my life as well as the life of my unborn child.
- My husband injured his nose on Sunday, causing it to bleed like crazy. Two drops each of geranium and helichrysum along the bridge of his nose stopped the bleeding almost instantly.
Ginger
- Dr. Carolyn DeMarco recommends powdered ginger in capsules for morning sickness for pregnant women who are sensitive to smells.
Goldenrod
- For men with erectile issues-Goldenrod has an effect for me. I didn't think so originally, as I was using it topically. A capsule with 3 drops worked well for me. 5 drops worked perhaps a bit too well, causing an erection which felt as if it were in danger of bursting, bordering on discomfort. It could be, of course, that goldenrod just filled in gaps in my system which happened to be missing, so I have no idea what may happen for others. Of this, I am certain - it has to be internal and I'd start with a single drop and work up from there, rather than fill a capsule and back off from that. A trip to the emergency is not an ideal way to spend an evening, at least around here.
- My husband and I have discovered that Goldenrod does work well for an uplifting. (so to speak) I rub it on the reflex points for men.
Grapefruit
- Grapefruit EO in a 200 parts per million concentration inhibits skin cancer by 80.50 %
- For ear pain- I would take a tiny amount (part of a drop) of grapefruit oil and rub it around the OUTSIDE of the ear, all the way around. This is absolutely the best solution for this problem I have seen, and the relief is usually immediate.
- Grapefruit digests fat deposits in the liver. It works with Frankincense on fatty tumors. However, if using it triple your water intake or the fatty tumors will move to a new location. It works as an air purifier for air bacteria. Gary Young
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The science of aromatherapy and essential oils is as old as the beginning of time, although it was lost through the ages and has only begun to make its re-entry into the modern world during the last 50 years. Ancient records indicate that natural elements were mankind's first medicine.
