Tina, at The Essential Herbal Magazine has done it again. She's offering another free download of an older copy of the magazine - this time the Winter 2007 edition.
Download your free copy (in PDF format) here: http://www.essentialherbal.com/documents/March%20April%202008.pdf
Yes, the link says 2008... I didn't name the file! The cover says Jan-Feb 2007, and am I going to argue with the cover? All sorts of neat information about a lot of herbal subjects, including uses for Lemon Balm (the herb from which our Melissa essential oil and hydrosol are distilled), dealing with Seasonal Affective Disorder, "Love Potions" in time for Valentine's Day. The magazine has grown a lot over the past 2 1/2 years, but the early versions have a lot to offer. And the price is most definitely right.
Thanks, Tina!
Monday, August 31, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
More on maintaining wellness
We have decided to repost a case study that fascinated me. This has, to my knowledge, never been published, so it is strictly "anecdotal evidence".
One of our nurses conducted an experiment in her child's elementary school.
Aloe vera gel, with 5% Ravensara or Ravintsara (we are not certain which oil was used.) For younger children I would most definitely choose the milder Ravintsara.
Three times a day, as the children entered the classroom, when lining up for lunch, and when lining up for the school bus, each child received a squirt of the above mixture as "hand lotion" to be rubbed into their hands.
The result of the experiment?
Throughout the school year, absenteeism in that one classroom was dramatically lower than that of the school as a whole. Brothers and sisters were ill and absent, the children using the Aloe blend were not.
I am going to be seeing my Indiana grandchildren over Labor Day, and plan to blend a BIG bottle of aloe and ravintsara for both families.
Please remember that the essential oils will not dissolve in Aloe Vera Gel the way they do in carrier oils. I plan to mix them really well, and give instructions that it must be shaken well before use. For 4 fl oz of Aloe Vera Gel, I plan to use a generous 6 mls of Ravintsara.
One of our nurses conducted an experiment in her child's elementary school.
Aloe vera gel, with 5% Ravensara or Ravintsara (we are not certain which oil was used.) For younger children I would most definitely choose the milder Ravintsara.
Three times a day, as the children entered the classroom, when lining up for lunch, and when lining up for the school bus, each child received a squirt of the above mixture as "hand lotion" to be rubbed into their hands.
The result of the experiment?
Throughout the school year, absenteeism in that one classroom was dramatically lower than that of the school as a whole. Brothers and sisters were ill and absent, the children using the Aloe blend were not.
I am going to be seeing my Indiana grandchildren over Labor Day, and plan to blend a BIG bottle of aloe and ravintsara for both families.
Please remember that the essential oils will not dissolve in Aloe Vera Gel the way they do in carrier oils. I plan to mix them really well, and give instructions that it must be shaken well before use. For 4 fl oz of Aloe Vera Gel, I plan to use a generous 6 mls of Ravintsara.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Health Care Provider seeking guidance
this blog post has been removed per dictates from the FDA and FDC.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
A bad year for Lavender
Just heard back from my "French Connection"...the source of many of my Organic French essential oils. And the outlook for Lavendula angustifolia from France this year is bleak.
He wrote that the distillation hasn't started yet. The Lavandin has been harvested, but not yet distilled. The true Lavender will be harvested in September.
Of the new harvests he writes:
"-wild lavender: catastrophic year: new strange diseases are decimating specially low altitude lavender, we will have no low altitude
(700-1200 m at all this year)." This was the Lavender Fine which we offered a few months ago. I only bought a little bit, and it sold out in no time. I had planned to order perhaps 10 kilos, it was a lovely, relatively inexpensive oil.
"-high altitude (more than 1400 m): we will have only a very limited amount this year, with higher prices"
"The lavandula latifolia is not yet harvested, but I already asked to keep me a lot, it is not affected at all from diseases."
It appears that the organic cloned crops, the Mailette and Matheronne, have not been affected by this new disease. One would expect more hardiness in the wild crops than the cloned, so this is truly a mystery.
He wrote that the distillation hasn't started yet. The Lavandin has been harvested, but not yet distilled. The true Lavender will be harvested in September.
Of the new harvests he writes:
"-wild lavender: catastrophic year: new strange diseases are decimating specially low altitude lavender, we will have no low altitude
(700-1200 m at all this year)." This was the Lavender Fine which we offered a few months ago. I only bought a little bit, and it sold out in no time. I had planned to order perhaps 10 kilos, it was a lovely, relatively inexpensive oil.
"-high altitude (more than 1400 m): we will have only a very limited amount this year, with higher prices"
"The lavandula latifolia is not yet harvested, but I already asked to keep me a lot, it is not affected at all from diseases."
It appears that the organic cloned crops, the Mailette and Matheronne, have not been affected by this new disease. One would expect more hardiness in the wild crops than the cloned, so this is truly a mystery.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
FOCUS Synergy: an anecdote
My friend JoAnn is a tech at the St. Thomas Heart Institute here in Nashville. If you have to have a treadmill test done, odds are this blond woman with the huge smile will be the tech encouraging you through the test.
JoAnn has never been certified for her position. She knows her job, and is excellent at it, but is extremely "test phobic." She's taken the certification exam several times, and always failed it.
Recently the hospital decreed that all techs must be certified. She was in a state of panic, because failing the test again meant losing her job.
She was studying hard, as she always had. But frightened that, once again, she'd not be able to access her knowledge and experience when the testing day came.
I made some suggestions. That instead of studying late into the night, she try getting up early to study. And that she use my aromastone diffuser, and diffuse our Focus Synergy (a blend of essential oils each tested and shown to improve mental focus, alertness, and memory/recall) while studying the most challenging material.
She did this. Last Saturday, on the day of the exam, we tucked a tissue with Focus on it inside her bra. (I was going to have her wear one of our amulets with the blend in it, but no jewelry is allowed in the testing area.)
She came home floating on cloud nine! Passing score on the exam was 650. Her score? 764 out of 800!
Was it the Focus? Was it her hard work (although she had studied hard for the other exams)? Was it the praying we did the morning of the exam? I don't know. Perhaps all of the above.
But Focus helped!
JoAnn has never been certified for her position. She knows her job, and is excellent at it, but is extremely "test phobic." She's taken the certification exam several times, and always failed it.
Recently the hospital decreed that all techs must be certified. She was in a state of panic, because failing the test again meant losing her job.
She was studying hard, as she always had. But frightened that, once again, she'd not be able to access her knowledge and experience when the testing day came.
I made some suggestions. That instead of studying late into the night, she try getting up early to study. And that she use my aromastone diffuser, and diffuse our Focus Synergy (a blend of essential oils each tested and shown to improve mental focus, alertness, and memory/recall) while studying the most challenging material.
She did this. Last Saturday, on the day of the exam, we tucked a tissue with Focus on it inside her bra. (I was going to have her wear one of our amulets with the blend in it, but no jewelry is allowed in the testing area.)
She came home floating on cloud nine! Passing score on the exam was 650. Her score? 764 out of 800!
Was it the Focus? Was it her hard work (although she had studied hard for the other exams)? Was it the praying we did the morning of the exam? I don't know. Perhaps all of the above.
But Focus helped!
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