First of all, I’d like to start out by saying I have a great respect for the medical field and the people who are all involved and got into it for the sincere purpose of wanting to make a difference for people and their families related to their health. After all, I am a registered nurse myself and got into healthcare for the same reasons: to help people medically and educate them on the benefits on a healthy lifestyle. With all that said, I want to segue into the problems that exist within modern medicine’s “healthy way of life”.

We are so engrained in a particular way of thinking that we think is best because it is coming from doctors, nurses, the general public, and so on. We think it’s the only way to live, treat, and survive. For instance, in nursing school you learn about every disease, illness, and how the body functions. You learn about the medicines that are used to treat them, modern medicines. The ONLY medicines that are TAUGHT. Medicines that drug companies have forced into existence and into the textbooks of nursing and medical schools. These drug companies create these meds, “test” them, and use them based on cases of experiments used against various symptoms; the key word, is SYMPTOMS. Here lies the problem, all of these modern meds are treating just the symptoms of illnesses and not treating the source of the problem. For example, meds are specifically designed to block certain receptor sites of cells so that the cells stop responding. These responses are signals, a.k.a. symptoms, of a bigger problem. Take antihistamines for instance. They block histamine receptors so that we won’t sneeze, cough, and produce mucus. Because those symptoms are bothersome to us, we consider them the illness and the “bad guy”/problem. However, God has given us an immune system that is specifically designed in a way for us to naturally fight off bacteria, viruses, etc. These symptoms are signaling to us that there is a problem that needs to be addressed. Because we mask the symptoms through modern medicine, we don’t ever address the problem. I’m not just talking about infections because I know you’re thinking “we have antibiotics”. I will get into the problems with those in a little bit. I’m talking about diseases as well. Such diseases like autoimmune (lupus, rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis, multiple sclerosis,…), liver and kidney diseases, thyroid diseases, and so on. The medical industry has thousands of various diagnoses and everyday a new one is invented. They are quick to tell you what you have, however no one can ever tell you the source of the problem. They just give you meds to treat the apparent/visible problem, in other words, the symptoms. In many cases for instance, inflammation and free radicals from different environmental exposures and diet attributions in our everyday life cause our body to respond in different ways. If we are exposed and constantly ingest harmful things, our body’s immune system responds by creating inflammation. If we don’t treat the inflammation properly, in an all natural pure way, it causes problems. With every person, inflammation (even though 2 different people may be exposed by the same trigger) may be responding in different ways or in different parts of the body. I might be having joint inflammation, where you might be having GI inflammation. In medical modern terms, I might have psoriatic arthritis and you might have GERD. Easy to diagnose, but never do they look at the cause. It is our responsibility to take charge of our health and make change. We may not be able to control environmental exposures as much as we like, but we can control what we ingest. We must educate ourselves about harmful things in our diet and in modern medicinals. Don’t get me wrong, there is a time and a place for modern medicine during emergencies and trauma. The thing we can learn to control is everyday illnesses that we so quickly and eagerly get anxiety about to start on the next antibiotic for. The very same antibiotics that have caused so many problems that people may not be aware of. What we fail to see is because we take in these synthetic medicines that never change in formulation, the bacteria become immune to them and learn how to adapt to fight against them after multiple exposures. This creates a bigger problem: bigger, badder, stronger bacteria that eventually become nearly impossible to treat and kill.

Now you ask, “what is the solution?”. Besides a healthy diet, the answer is this: essential oils in the purest form. Not the kind with synthetic additives, but the purest form of the essential healing oil produced from the plant/tree in order to survive. God has given us everything we need, we just need to learn how to find and use them. Rev 2:22 says, “The leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations”. Why would we rely on anything else, but what God has intended for us to use. Plants produce oils that are key or “essential” for their survival in harsh climates. For example, when bark is broken off you see sap immediately seep to the surface. That’s so the essential oils within the sap work by repairing the damaged area. In the same way, those same oils if used properly, can heal/repair our damaged cells. Essential oils are composed of tiny molecules (smaller than those in meds used today) that are created to pass through all of the tissue of the plant right into their cells, right into the cell wall. They bring in nutrition and carry waste out. It works the same way in us. Because of how small the essential oil molecules are, even when applied topically on our body, it can reach every part of our body within minutes. Every species of plants/essential oils have different uses as well. Many specific essential oils such as clove and cinnamon, have very high power antiseptic/antibiotic properties in them. In fact, a much higher potency of that in modern antibiotics today. Not only are certain essential oils known for high antibacterial constituents, but they are also the world’s most powerful antioxidants that play a key role in killing off free radicals in our bodies. Those free radicals that are responsible for a quickening aging process and cancer. For instance, clove has 450 times more antioxidants than that of blueberries! Some more, perhaps the most vital constituents of essential oils, are what are considered the “PMS” of oils: Phenols and Phenylpropanoids, Monoterpenes, and Sesquiterpenes. Phenols and Phenylpropanoids are responsible for cleaning cell receptor sites which allow cells to communicate with each other. If the cell sites are blocked through exposure to toxins, they cannot communicate and the body malfunctions which causes us sickness. So instead of blocking receptor sites like modern meds do, essential oils clean them allowing the cells to function the way they were intended to do so. The Monoterpenes in essential oils are pretty cool as well because they have a special skill. They are able to reprogram malfunctioning DNA. (Keep in mind cancer is malfunctioning DNA) The next constituent, Sesquiterpenes, function in delivering oxygen to cells. Where oxygen harvests, cancer cells cannot reproduce.

With all that said, I think it’s pretty safe to say essential oils carry a pretty powerful punch to harmful things that invade our body. One thing to say about “essential oils” is that you have to be careful when choosing the proper ones. Many that you see for instance in health food stores, have synthetic properties to them. One red flag is if it says “do not ingest”. Pure essential oils are safe to ingest however. One company that I swear by and trust is Young Living. They pride themselves in the most careful distilling process in order to extract the purest form of the oil that you can get from the plant. I won’t go into detail about how because it is too long to explain, but let’s just say it’s a VERY intricate distilling process. They are very open and honest about the extraction/distilling process, so much so that they invite you to their farms/distilleries so you can witness the process yourself. Can you say the same about your prescription drug companies?…I would say not. Not only do they have the purest extraction methods out there,  every essential oil comes from plants that are all organic and untreated by any chemicals whatsoever. In fact, they use left over unused essential oils to fertilize/treat the plants. Cool, huh?

With all this said, it’s time we take control and educate ourselves about what’s really out there regarding the PROPER way to manage our health. It’s time we know what’s in the medicines we consume and which God made, not man made medicinals are available to heal and not harm us. It’s time we heal our bodies the right way so we can fight against things how we were meant to. If we don’t start doing that now, we will fall into a vicious downward spiral where there is little hope for our health. Modern medicine’s days are numbered. Instead of curing, drug companies are worried about profiting. This is why they won’t promote essential oils themselves. They can’t patent them because so many people can gain access to them. That is why natural medicine is not promoted. Drug companies cannot profit from It. It is a saddening concept which is why we must continue to educate ourselves in how we can gain back control of our health. Only we can change the patterns of today’s medicine. Only we can create a medication renovation.

Cheers to a healthy lifestyle done right!

If you want to find out more information about how to get Young Living essential oils, feel free to comment below and I will be happy to help you!

Sources:

Stewart, David, Ph.D. (2012). Healing Oils of the Bible. Care Publications, Marble Hill, MO.