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The Missing Link: The Role of Therapeutic-Grade Essential Oils in Healthcare

How medicinal aromatherapy can provide the answer for present and future healthcare crises

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Essential Oils: The Missing Link in Healthcare is a very interesting and informative talk concerning essential oils, given by D. Gary Young, taking you into the fascinating and ancient world of aromatherapy and essential oils.

Announcer: Welcome to the world of aromatherapy.

Aromatherapy may be a new term to you, but it's an ancient art and science.  Its foundations can be seen in Bible, and many different cultures from around the world have rich experiences with this amazing healing art reaching back into antiquity.  Yet, aromatherapy was basically a lost form of healing until only a few years ago.

Therefore, I'm excited to share this life-changing information with you; information that might bring totally new dimensions of healing to you.

The following article is adapted from a lecture presented by Gary Young in the early 1990s.  Gary is a unusual and visionary man who, through the most amazing circumstances, finds himself teaching seminars and college classes, doing research and formulating life-changing aromatherapy blends in his laboratory, plowing the fields on his tractor, designing and building equipment for the farming operations, training his horses to pull a plow and running a multi-million dollar business.

About Gary Young

Gary grew up in the mountains of central Idaho, and at age 24, suffered a logging accident that, according to the prognoses of his doctors, would leave him paralyzed for life.

Rejecting this medical opinion, Gary began his search for natural ways to heal his body.  He studied the sciences of hematology, medicine, anesthesiology, acupuncture, pathology, nutrition, herbology, and many other types of healing modalities.  Thirteen years later, he ran a half-marathon, finishing 60th out of 970 participants.  (See Gary's Story for a fuller account of this amazing recovery.)

After receiving a Master's Degree in Nutrition and a Doctorate in Naturopathy, Gary opened a family practice in Chula Vista, California, as well as a research clinic in Mexico.  (There, he could do research in the areas of natural healing not allowed in the United States.)  His work in Mexico was of such magnitude that, in 1985, he received the Humanitarian Award from the State Medical Examiner's Office of Baja California for his research into, and successful treatment of, degenerative disease (one of only six such awards ever given).  It was in this clinic that he was introduced to essential oils, which started him in the path that he follows today.

About QuackWatch

There is a website called QuackWatch that has published a scathing article about Gary Young.  It has thrown many people, and caused them to doubt both Gary and the validity of medicinal aromatherapy.  But, as they have done to so many eminent members of the alternative healthcare community, the men who run QuackWatch have thoroughly misrepresented the facts for their own purposes.

Dr. Terry Friedmann, M.D., Co-Founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, has written an excellent rebuttal, setting the record straight about Gary Young, and exposing QuackWatch as the racketeers they are.

In November of 1995, Gary was invited to speak at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) International Congress on Essential Oils held in Eskeshehir, Turkey.  He presented research that was being conducted on Young Living's essential oil blends and single oils at Weber State University, and on organic farming and plant germination at the farm in Idaho.  His work was received with tremendous enthusiasm, and many who attended showed great interest in what we are doing as a means for improving their economies.

Since then, Gary has spoken at the First International Symposium on Integrative Aromatic Medicine in Grasse, France (March 21-22, 1998), where he presented papers on both the cultivation and distillation of essential oils in North American and the use of essential oils in a clinical setting to treat malignant melanoma.  He has spent several years in the chemistry department at Weber State University to prove the validity of this ancient science, and is currently teaching and doing groundbreaking research at a university in Equador. 

Gary loves the challenge of research and discovery, which has driven him deep into the history of early medicine and essential oils.  He has gone from the ruins of ancient Egypt and the archaeology archives of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, from the British Museum Library in London and his own laboratory to the rain forests of Equador in an exciting adventure of discovery.  He is one of the foremost authorities on essential oils in North America.

So now, let's join Gary Young in one of his lectures, and see what we can learn about this most fascinating subject.



The comparison of essential oils to blood

Dr. Gary Young: Just to give you a real simple analogy, if we were to take the plant and human body, and put them side-by-side, we could see some very interesting comparisons.  You see: In the human body, we have a substance called blood; and that blood has a very specific purpose: to transport nutrients to the cells, to nurture and feed the cells.

The importance of oxygen for life

One of the primary agents in the blood, what is responsible for the delivery of the nutrients through the cell membranes, is oxygen.

If we take the oxygen out of the blood, what happens?  We would die very quickly.  The cells would begin to mutate and give off toxic gases that create a host for disease.

Well, today, we live in an environment that is oxygen-depleted — because of the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink.  This situation has set us up to be victims — which is quite obvious, by what's going on in our world today.

When we look at essential oils, we see that they have the same role, and play the same function, in the plant as the blood does in the human body.

The essential oil is the blood of the plant.

The cleansing and regenerating properties of essential oils

How many of you have ever cut your finger?  What happens?  You bleed.

Why do you bleed?

(Audience: To cleanse.)

Exactly: to cleanse, and to kill the bacteria.  You have to do that to start the process of regeneration of the tissue.

Okay, how many of you ladies have seen a leaf on one of your house plants torn or damaged?  What comes out?  It's a liquid, isn't it?  It's called the resin by some; some call it the blood of the plant; some call it the life force of the plant.  Whatever you call it, it's the same thing.  It bleeds.  It bleeds to cleanse the damaged part of the plant is, to kill the bacteria.

Essential oils: man's first medicine

Recent research, and the translation of the papyrus and hieroglyphics in Egypt, has determined that essential oils were the first medicine of man.  Even before herbs were used, oils were extracted from the plant and used as medicine.  Why is that?

Well, for one thing, it has been documented that the primary ingredient of the oils is oxygen.  In fact, essential oils contain the highest level of oxygenating molecules of any substance known to man.  So, when we think about that, that we can get actual oxygen from the oil, it's quite exciting.

But that's not all.  Not only do we get oxygen from the oils, we also get negative ions and ozone.  Is that important to us?  Yes.  Why is that?  Just think about it: Can bacteria live in ozone?  Can bacteria live in a negative ion environment?  No.

This is really interesting, because everyone today is looking for anti-microbial substances to take.  Well, we're just going to walk through some things real quickly here, and show you how essential oils give you everything you need for this; they are the missing link in our healthcare system today, and everyone — and every home — needs to have them on hand.

Everyday challenges to our health: Why we need on-going detoxification

Just take a look at what the human body is up against today.

It's been that way for over 50 years . . . and we wonder why we can't get good, wholesome food today.

But, that's not all.  This environmental contamination is going into the aquifer, along with all of the contamination in the entire food chain.  And, the human body is supposed to deal with all of this on an on-going basis.

We absorb this pollution through our food and the water, and through the pores of our skin and the air that we breathe.  These chemicals go down into the intestinal tract and cause a weakening of the membrane wall, then they leach through into the liver and cause cell mutation.  It changes the pH of the blood.  And then, one day, we wake up, and all of a sudden we've got a problem.  We start creating a host for disease, and then we wonder, "How can this possibly happen?"

So, in our lives today, detoxification is extremely important.

Essential oils: nature's detoxifiers

This is really interesting: Essential oils, because of their chemical structure, will literally push chemicals and metalics out of the cells.

Why?  Because oxygen pushes toxins out of the cells and pulls potassium back in, and essential oils have the highest level of oxygenating activity of any substance known to man.  Because of their oxygenating activity, they will re-establish normal cell function and balance (or homeostasis).  This is very important.

New drug-resistant super-bugs put us at risk

Here's Time Magazine, the September 12th issue (I'm sure most of you have seen it): "New Virus and Drug Resistant Bacteria are Reversing Human Victories over Infectious Diseases."

How can this happen, if we have a healthy body?  I mean, can an infection successfully attack us if we're really healthy?  Can we contract cancer if we're healthy?  Can we catch AIDS if we're healthy?

No; of course not.

Cholera in Southern Russia and South America: Our susceptibility to disease

This was quite interesting: if we look at the bottom of the page, it says: "More than 850 people have come down with cholera in Southern Russia, and officials fear that disease could erupt into an epidemic."  While this article was being published, and they were talking about 850 people in Russia, they never even made mention of the thousands of cholera victims in South America.  So many were dying that they were burying them in mass graves.  

Microbial mutations and antibiotic resistance: Their toll on human life

Look at this: "Some microbes can reproduce in just 20 minutes."  And this article goes on to talk about how the drug makers are fighting back; and yet, how every time they produce a new drug, the bacteria or the virus mutates and develops it's own immunity to the antibiotic.

Now think about this: At this time, no one has found a single virus that has been able to develop a resistance to an essential oil.

Look here: "The question ceases to be: "When will disease be gone."  (That is: the experts have given up on ever being able to put an end to infectious diseases.)  Just look at the statistics: In terms of deaths per year, we have:

And now we have a new viral tuberculosis, do we not?  They don't even mention the viral tuberculosis here, just the bacterial.

They don't even talk here about cancer and heart disease, which have overcome the infectious diseases in the number of deaths each year — worldwide.  We're just talking about diseases related to virus and bacteria; yet, even at that, they don't even list the new tuberculosis virus, the new Hunta virus, the flesh eating virus, the streptococci A or the Ebola virus.

You know, there's so much going on, we're not even aware of what's happening.  I think many of us also have a tendency to want to ignore it; we don't want to deal with the truth.

Why is that?  Because we don't know what to do about it.  True or false?

The next deadly virus: Where will it appear?

Okay, look here: "Where will the next deadly virus appear?"  It then goes on to talk about the agents: small pox, AIDS, hepatitis B.

How many of you are familiar with the Ebola virus and the symptomatology of it?  Are you aware that the Ebola virus causes decomposing of the internal organs and the smooth muscle tissue inside the human body?  And once Ebola is contracted, it's only three to five days, and you're dead?

Did you hear about what happened in Wanamingo, Minnesota just last week?  Eight people died from what they're calling the new streptococci virus that caused people to die in three to five days.  Their tissues and internal organs degenerated.  It was the Ebola virus, but they're saying it's the new streptococci A.  An epidemic.

This is interesting: "The price of doing nothing will be millions of lives."  And it's happened before.  Look here: "Killer flu 1918-1919, killed 20 million people."  So, we're not dealing with something that just popped into our world today.  There have been viruses around since the beginning of time.  Look at what happened in Moses' time.  Look at the 16th century plague in England and Europe, that claimed millions of lives.

Why is it happening?  Why do we have more of it today?

It's because we have weakened immune systems.  So, the real question is: How are we going to rebuild our immune systems?

Look at this article in the March issue of Reader's Digest: "The invisible invaders".  "The question is no longer when will infectious disease be wiped out; rather, it is where will the next new deadly plague appear."

You need to read this article, because it talks about how, with every antibiotic that they have ever made, the bacteria mutate and create their own immunity against the antibiotic.

Let's look at some of the things that create this situation.

This is a USA Today cover story: "Flu on tap.  Milwaukee blames illness on tap water.  Tainted water blamed for unlike illnesses."

It just goes on, wherever we look.

How many of you have seen the movie "The Outbreak?"  Well, that's not just a movie; that's a reality.

Viruses they can't kill; that they can't even control.

The anti-microbial action of essential oils

Now, I want to spend time showing you something that's really exciting.

This comes right out of the Cairo University research department, from Dr. Radwan S. Farag, who is our colleague in research at Cairo.  I worked with him for three years.

This anti-microbial action is probably the one property of essential oils that has been known for the longest time.  We're not just talking about folklore medicine here.  This is hard copy research.  But, isn't this interesting: Did you know about it?  Did you read about it?  Did you get to hear about it in the U.S. of A?  Of course not.

Essential oils for diabetes and cancer

How many of you know someone who has diabetes?  Let me show you what's going on at Cairo University with diabetes: they cure it.  Look here.  This is just one of the simple studies that was conducted on diabetes.

Simple essential oils.  Yes; they're correcting diseases in many places in the world.

Look what came off the Associated Press two months ago.  It's very interesting: "Scientists examine role of food derivatives in preventing cancer."

Is anyone interested in cancer prevention?  Cancer regression?  Well, look here: "Soybeans, lavender oil and orange peel".  (Orange oil is expressed from the peel.)

And we jump over here: "Cancer fighting powers of plant oils.  Small quantities of lavender oil have been shown to work against breast cancer in lab animals."

The roll of frequency in health

Now this is something that's very exciting: We need oxygenation, antioxidants and increased frequency.

What's a frequency?  Is frequency important to us?  Are our bodies electrical?

Absolutely.

And, when we study this, it's very interesting to see that, not only are our bodies electrical, but everything around us has an electrical frequency.

But, there are different types of frequencies.

This is what's interesting: The lights overhead here have a frequency.  It's 60 MHz.  Essential oils also have a frequency — from 52 to 320 MHz.  But, there's an important difference between the oil frequency and the frequency of your lights — or television or telephone or microwave.  AC electrical frequencies are incoherent, chaotic frequencies.  They fracture the human electrical field.  In contrast, essential oils have a coherent, harmonic DC frequency; so they're harmonious with the electrical field of the human body.

So then, essential oils give us oxygen, antioxidants and frequency.

Essential oils as a nutrient delivery system

Now, I make food supplements, and was the first to create a formulation incorporating essential oils.  Why?  Because, we found that essential oils work as a transport mechanism in food supplements.

Editor's note: While the issue of assimilation of nutrients on the cellular level is critical to overall health, when we look at the starvation issue in America today, there are other important factors to consider. 

  • The foods we eat have been poorly grown on nutrient-depleted soil, loaded with chemicals, harvested green, shipped cross-country or around the world, processed and then (too often) microwaved, leaving us nothing but toxic waste. 
  • We drink chlorinated water and take antibiotics (either as a prescription or in the foods we eat) that destroy our intestinal flora.
  • We take antacids or acid blocking medications to control heartburn or acid reflux, and are seriously deficient in digestive and systemic enzymes. 

Unless these things are corrected by eating whole, organic foods, drinking pure water and supplementing with a good probiotic complex and digestive and systemic enzyme complexes, we'll never get much food value from what we eat.

America, though over-fed and obese, is seriously malnourished.  It's getting harder and harder to find anyone, anywhere, who doesn't present physical signs of malnutrition.  And the reason we're starving to death is that we're not assimilating the nutrients on the cellular level.

Essential oils, because they're soluble with the lipids in the cellular membrane (and because of their oxygenating properties and frequency), have the ability to pass through the cell membrane, and to carry with them the nutrients with which they have an association.  That's their purpose in the plant: to transport nutrients through the cell wall, and deliver them inside the plant's cells.  So, when we took essential oils, and put them in the supplements, it was very exciting, because we've got an excellent delivery system.

Oxygen and the assimilation of nutrients at the cellular level

Now, I want to back up a bit, and give you something to think about.

Going back to the blood: The blood is the transporter of nutrients — vitamins, minerals, proteins, amino acids, hormones and enzymes.  That's the pathway they travel to go to the cells.

But, once nutrients are brought to the cell, the cell membrane must be receptive to those nutrients, or they can't be assimilated.  If we have an oxygen deficiency (due to our poor life-style choices or environment or illness), the pH of the blood changes, causing the cell membrane to thicken.  When this happens, the limited oxygen that is in the blood isn't able to get the nutrients through the cell membrane to where they are needed.  The result is having nutrients in the blood serum, but not inside the cell; and so, we wind up having cell mutation, and creating a host for viruses, bacteria and germs.

A brief review

So, what have we learned about essential oils so far?  Essential oils:

The potency of essential oils compared to dried herbs

So, what do you suppose happens to the essential oil in a plant when we cut it and dehydrate it to make an herbal supplement?  We evaporate 98% of the live substance that's responsible for the healing force of that plant.

As I look through the audience here, I see quite a few people who are probably old enough to remember the days when they used to gather herbs, fresh in the pasture or field, or out on the hill, and come home and make up their poultices and their teas and their extracts.  And they worked, didn't they?

So, you tell your children about it; and when they get sick, they go down to the health food store, buy a bottle of that same herb in a capsule form, take it home, take six bottles of it, and nothing happens; and we wonder, "Why?"

It's because modern man has taken the life-force out of the herbs by dehydration.

So, when I discovered that — or learned about that — I started spraying the oils back into the powdered herb, and it brought back the bio-availability of the nutrients that was lost when the catalytic agent was evaporated out of them.

Therapeutic properties of essential oils

If we want to cleanse our bodies, and want cellular regeneration and immunity, then we've got to start working on ourselves inside-out, and outside-in.  It's really beautiful, because we can create that simply by putting oils on the body.


Sesquiterpenes

Now, look at lemon oil.  It's pressed from the rind of the fruit.  From the French Medical Encyclopedia, we see a list of the identifiable "active principles", or "chemical constituents", found in lemon oil.  Many have not been identified yet.  We look at the list, and there's one agent there called sesquiterpenes.  In 1994, at the Medical University of Berlin, Germany and Vienna, Austria, it was discover that sesquiterpenes can go beyond the blood-brain barrier.

Let me tell you how important this discovery is.

It was stated by the American Medical Association, October of 1993, that, if we "could find an agent that would go beyond the blood-brain barrier, we could treat MS, Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's and Alzheimer's successfully."  Now, in June 1994, it was documented that an oil constituent called sesquiterpenes has the ability to do just that; and high levels of these compounds are found in frankincense and sandalwood oils.

I attended a three-day medical conference in Grasse, France from September 5-7, 1994.  I saw this research presented, and I saw the brain scan slices of before and after the inhalation of frankincense and sandalwood, and how it increased the oxygen production in the limbic system, particularly around the pineal and pituitary glands, and increased the secretion of antibodies, endorphins and neurotransmitters.  Documented, hard-copy, from Berlin and Vienna, Austria.

There are more than 150 hospitals in England alone, now prescribing and using essential oils for treatment.


Lemon oil

Let's look at lemon oil.  This is how the doctors prescribe its use in the hospitals in Europe.  It's recognized to have these properties:

and is used for the follow conditions:

and they use it as a disinfectant, in the air and on medical cabinets, in hospitals throughout Europe.

And, what do we use in America to disinfect with?  Drugs.


Lavender oil

Lavender: this is another beautiful oil.  Looking at its profile in the French Medical Encyclopedia, we see sesquiterpenes.  But, not only are sesquiterpenes and terpenes able to go beyond the blood-brain barrier, they've also been found, along with phenols and cineols, to contain the highest levels of oxygenating molecules of all of the constituents in the oils.

Lets look at what the French Medical Encyclopedia says lavender will do.

And, of course, they prescribe it for:

How many of you have taken allergy shots in your life?  Isn't it bizarre to find out that lavender is used for allergies?

The importance of a quality oil

Incidentally, you have to use pure, therapeutic-grade lavender oil to receive these benefits from it.  You can't just run down to the health food store and buy any old lavender oil that's sold on the market.

You see, in America, people don't understand essential oils; but what they do understand is marketing.  They know how to buy the garbage that's rejected from France, and bring it to the United States, cut it with propylene glycol and synthetic constituents like linolyl acetate, put it in a bottle and sell it as essential oil of lavender; and if you don't know the difference, you're just a victim.

So, if you go down to a health food store and see a half ounce bottle of lavender oil on the shelf for $5-$8, you know you're getting garbage.  You can't buy pure lavender oil in France for that price.

Hybrids: a whole other oil

Just to give you a little more understanding of this: There are four hybrids of lavenders called lavandins.  They're not therapeutic-grade, not for aromatherapy use; but, these are what is predominantly sold in the United States, because people here don't know the difference.

Proper production methods

We produce some of our lavender in France, because we have our own farm there, as well as in Idaho.  We do our own growing, in order to produce top quality oils.

You extract the oil through steam distillation.  It has to be at low pressure, low temperature; and the plant material has to be in the chamber for a minimum of one and a half hours; two hours is even better.  But, the commercial distillers, producing oils for the perfume industry in Europe, distill oil in fifteen minutes, at 400 degrees and up to 150 pounds of pressure.  Not only that, they pump chemicals into the water while they're doing it.

It's very important for you to know these things about your oils.

It's not just a matter of running out to a health food store and buying oils, because the people who are marketing oils — predominantly — are in it for the money; they don't care about the purity, and they haven't taken the time to study.

Now, let me share with you some of the things about lavender oil that just came out of Warwick University.

This is really exciting.

Lavender is native to the Mediterranean region; France is a major producer.  (Now, Idaho is going to take over.)

A fragrance component of pharmaceuticals, antiseptic ointments, creams, lotions, cosmetics, including soaps, detergents, creams, lotions and perfumes, lavender waters and colognes.

However, lavender now is starting to be widely used in aromatherapy for the treatment of burns, scalds, inflammation, wounds, ulcers, eczema, dermatitis, fainting, headaches, migraines, influenza, insomnia, hysteria, tension, infection, asthma, rheumatism and arthritis.

Now, when you can get a bottle of lavender oil for $15, who would want to have aspirin?


Chemical constituents of lavender 

Looking at just a few of the constituents responsible for all that activity in lavender oil, it's interesting to see the linolyl acetate level at a 441.  That's a relatively good quality oil.  The lavender oil we're producing at the farm in Idaho has a linolyl acetate level of 67, the highest quality produced in the world.

As for toxicity of this oil: "Subcutaneous injection showed low toxicity.  No human photo-toxicity reported."  So it's totally safe; and that's the beautiful part of essential oils.  You don't have to be concerned about having side-effects from pure oils.  Cut, adulterated, synthetic … absolutely, but not pure oils; not the way God intended them to be.

Diffusing oils, and its action on the body system

How do we get oils quickly into the system?  Through the olfactory nerve, to the pineal, pituitary and amygdala.

When you breathe an oil into your system, it's picked up first by the neurons that hang down from the olfactory bulb, right between the eyes, at the top of the sinus cavity.  The oil molecules are then carried — within milliseconds — into the center of the brain.  Now, it's been found that the inhalation of essential oils into the mid-brain system will cause an instant secretion of antibodies, endorphins and neurotransmitters.  Now we're seeing a direct response on the immune system from the inhalation and the topical application of essential oils — like nothing else that has ever been created.

So, diffusing essential oils puts them into the atmosphere of your home.  What are the benefits?  You're getting:

Alester University, in Northern Ireland, did a study of diffusing — vaporizing — essential oils into an atmosphere with 210 colonies of bacteria.  It killed all 210.  So, diffusing the oils, in a cold-air diffuser, makes the most perfect air purification system ever invented — or rediscovered.  We can't afford to be without it.

How do we know these things happen, and how the oils work?  By simply studying the properties in the oil.

Understanding an oil's benefits by the action of its constituents

Let's take a look at some oils and the therapeutic activity of their chemical constituents.


Thyme oil

This is a gas chromatogram Thymus vulgaris.  It tells us what chemical constituents are in the oil.  What does it tell us about the therapeutic actions of this thyme oil?

A word about the science of essential oils: Two things must be kept in mind when looking at the therapeutic action of an essential oil:

  1. There really is no straight line between the known action of any one chemical constituent of an oil and the therapeutic activity of that oil.  An essential oil may have hundreds of constituents, each with its own effect on the oil.  Often, these constituents enhance the effect of one another in a synergistic way; but sometimes, they act to mollify the action of other constituents.  This balancing of the activity of the oil's constituents makes the oils safer to use (something the pharmaceutical companies would do well to remember in their search for purity), but tends to preserve the "art" in aromatherapy.
  2. Most gas chromatography done in America today is geared more toward the chemical industry than aromatherapy.  It takes special treatment of the oils to get a truly accurate picture of an essential oils's profile.  That's why it's important to have any oil intended for aromatherpy tested in an AFNOR-certified laboratory.

So, when we take an essential oil into the laboratory and analyze it, we know instantly the value it has.  Depending upon the percentage of activity, it will tell us whether it's a pure oil, or whether there's been something done with it.

So, the science is incredible.


Clary sage oil

This is the gas chromatogram of the clary sage we grew at our farm in Idaho this past summer.  It has the highest linolyl activity of any clary sage, at 72.  Most clary sage ranges around 57.

Down here, you have sclerol, a transoxide to sclerol.  That's what converts to estriol in the human body, and produces natural estrogen.

So, how many of you ladies are taking some synthetic hormone?  You've got it right here, in your plants.  When God created this world, he created everything — naturally — for us; and, He gave us every substance we will ever need to protect our bodies from all the things that we have to deal with.  Just like He gave to the Israelites.


Hyssop oil

Yes, the Israelites were faced with a plague; and, if you saw the movie "The Ten Commandments", it depicted it as an avenging angel, a green fog that floated through the city.  But really, it was a plague.  Scientists and researchers of Egypt say it was nothing different than the AIDS we have today.  They're convinced of that.  [Editor's note: This simply can't be, since the effects were death overnight, not over years.]

So what did Moses do to protect the children of Israel from that plague?  He used hyssop oil in the lamb's blood.  You can read about in Exodus, chapter 12.  [Editor's note: Verse 22 clearly states that they used sprigs of hyssop, not oil; and it was used to apply the blood of the lamb to the door posts and lintel, not to their bodies.] 

You can also go to Exodus 30:21-27 and read about the oil formula that the Lord gave to Moses to give the children of Israel to protect them against the ravages of the diseases and the plague.  [Editor's note: This passage refers to the Holy Anointing Oil, and was not to be used by anyone but the priests.  If anyone other than the priests used the oil, he was to be "cut off from his people."  The children of Israel were not even to make any oil like it.]

We're talking about a substance that's been around since the beginning of time, with a biblical foundation.  And man has ignored it; it has been lost and forgotten.

The rediscovery of the healing power of essential oils

It wasn't until 1921 that the powerful potential of essential oils for our health started to come back into our awareness.

An old gentleman named Dr. René-Maurice Gattefossé, a French cosmetic chemist, was working in his lab one day.  There was an explosion, and he received a third degree, thermal burn on his hand, wrist and forearm.  The apocryphal version of the story goes like this:

Knowing he needed to reduce the temperature of his burns, he reached over to where one of his colleagues had just set a container with liquid in it.  Thinking it was water, he plunged his hand into it.  It turner out to be lavender oil.  And it healed his burn without a trace of a scar.  Dr. Gattefossé was so excited that, being a chemist, he took the lavender apart to understand it, and find out how it healed his burn without a scar. 

[Editor's note: This story has grown to mythic proportions over the years.  The real story, in Dr. Gattefossé's own words, can be found in the Essential Oils Desk Reference.  The true account is even more impressive than the myth.]

The term "aromatherapy" does not actually refer to any (largely subjective) benefits derived from fragrance, as such.  It comes from the French aromatherapie; that is: the medicinal use of aromatics. 

Contrary to popular thought, aromatherapy is about far more than just the smell.

From there, Dr. Gattefossé gave the research to Dr. John Valnet, who was a medical doctor in Paris, France.  Dr. Valnet did nothing with the materials until the years after World War II, when he was working with war victims with shrapnel wounds in South East Asia.  He was losing them to gangrene, because the antibiotics wouldn't work.  Dr. Gattefossé sent him some oils and said "try the oils."  He started using the oils, and he saved every single patient.

That was the restoration of what we know today as aromatherapy.  That was 1946.  That's how new it is; yet the studies never really started until 1967.

Re-establishing healthy body frequencies with essential oils

Now, this is just a little bit about the frequency of essential oils.

We were the first to discover that essential oils literally contain an electrical frequency.  We did a study of over 200 subjects at the Eastern State University in Cheney, Washington.  We found that the average body-frequency range is 62-68 MHz.  The brain frequencies are 10 MHz higher than the body during the day, and then it reverses during the night, and the brain frequencies are 10 MHz lower.

We took two young men who had a 66 MHz frequency.  One held a cup of coffee, and his frequency dropped to 58 MHz in three seconds.  The other one drank the coffee.  His frequency dropped to 52MHz in three seconds.

Editor's note: While at the time of this lecture, this study was considered fully valid, attempts to duplicate the results have not been successful. 

Therefore, Gary Young has basically backed away from these claims in recent years. 

Although he still believes in the frequency of the body, the frequency of the oils (that is something that comes from the physical structure of the oils' aromatic molecules), and the ability of the oils to raise the body's frequency, he doesn't consider these numbers to be totally reliable.

We didn't let the young man who drank the coffee have any oils; it took three days for his frequency to come back to normal.  The young man that just held the coffee was given some of the respiratory blend, and he breathed it in.  His frequency went back up to normal in 21 seconds.


Body frequencies and disease

In this study, we found that disease begins at a frequency of 58 MHz.  Flu starts at 57 MHz; candida at 55 MHz; Epstein-Barr at 52 MHz; and cancer at 42 MHz.  What this tells us is that, when we do things in our lives that compromise the frequency in the human body, we can become a victim.  Essential oils re-establish a normal frequency in the human cells, which has been documented at the Eastern State University.

Regeneration of tissue with essential oils

Another thing that's really exciting about the potential of therapeutic-grade essential oils is regeneration.  This comes from the work of Dr. Richard Restick,M.D., one of the leading neurologists in the United States, working in Washington, D.C.  He is the man that helped me to discover that the oils have electrical frequence.


Giving hearing to the deaf with helichrysum oil

We discovered that hearing could be restored with the essential oil of helichrysum.  Not only from loss of hearing, but from deafness: born deafness.  Three people now have total restoration.

But, how can you regenerate something if you can't stimulate circulation and activity?  How?

I asked Dr. Restick how this could be, and he told me that the oils are electrical.  They stimulate the firing in the axon.  They increase the neurotransmitter in the axon that converts to electrons and fires across the synaptic gap.  He explained that, in the birth defects in these subjects, the nerves didn't connect; but the oils increased the firing of that synapses, causing the electrical impulse to jump across the gap and connect to that nerve.  Once it started firing, it started growing together, until it hard-wired.

So, essential oils have the ability to stimulate the regeneration of damaged nerve tissue.

That's helichrysum.

Some essential oils and their uses

How do we use oils?  We can do it by diffusing in the air, or by topical application to the feet.  Many of you here are probably reflexologists, and are certainly working with the feet.  Start working with oils through the feet.  (See the article on the Vita-Flex Technique.)


Treatment for pain

How many of you have experienced pain, and suffered with pain for days and days and days, and couldn't get rid of it?  You've taken pain medication: Tylenol, morphine and whatever to kill pain?  Right?

How would you feel if you knew that, if you broke a bone, you could take a single oil and rub it on that broken spot, and stop the pain within three to six seconds?  You can do it with essential oils.

I've made a pain relieving blend, with two essential oils that are largely responsible for its action.  One is helichrysum, and the other is wintergreen.

Wintergreen oil, like spruce oil, contains methyl salicylate.  It works like cortisone on the tissues, and is a topical anesthetic.  Helichrysum is a topical anesthetic.  It's beautiful.  So I made this formula to help alleviate pain.


Healing emotional problems

Another way to work with oils is through the ears: auricularly.

How many people here have emotions?  Is there anyone that has no emotional problems, at all?  Did you know that the ancient Egyptians used oils to do what they called "cleansing of the flesh and the blood", the "removing the evil deities from the mind"?  They believed that, if they didn't remove the evil deities from the mind — which we call negative emotions — they couldn't come back into the body they left in the tomb.

I was once allowed to go into a secret chamber, where this ritual was performed; and I photographed the walls.  We started translating the hieroglyphics that told about this three-day ritual, in which they used oils to take the people through, and totally eradicate the negative memory and memory trauma from the people.  I then started teaching and working with people, using the oils for eradicating negative emotions and emotional trauma; and it's a life-changing process.

Working through the ears.

In fact we have the reassurance oil blend.  If you ever feel depressed, manic-depressant or suicidal, take a couple of drops of this blend and rub it on the upper rim of the ear, and it'll take it away in just a matter of seconds.


Working through the spine to reach all the organs and glands of the body

Another beautiful area to work through is the spine.  Just massaging the oils up and down the spine, getting it into the nerves and meridians, and into the organs and glands in the body.  It's absolutely incredible.

I did a seminar in Denver, Colorado, and a gal there had a great, big knot on her spine.  We just rubbed simple oils of spruce and wintergreen and frankincense on it, and it dissolved to half in 20 minutes.  And, 150 people gathered around and watched.


The Aromatherapy 101 Essential Oils Kit

Okay, lets show you what's going on in the anti-viral activity.

We have a little aromatherapy 101 kit.  It has lavender, peppermint and lemon oils in it, plus four essential oil blends.  One of the blends is the pain relieving blend, which I just mentioned.  Another one is the tranquility blend.  (I made this blend for people who are hyperactive, like children.  I made it also for hyperactive parents, who have hyperactive children.)  I also formulated the anti-bacterial blend to kill airborne bacteria, odors, molds and fungus in the home.  It's incredible.  This kit also contains the oil of gladness blend.  It has rose oil in it, the oil with the highest of the frequencies, at 320 MHz.  It also contains ylang ylang, which balances the male/female energies.  It also is a powerful support to the heart, for tachycardia and arrhythmia.


The immune blend

Another oil blend that I recently formulated is the immune blend.  Because of these new viruses, and the weakening of our immune systems, I knew that we had to have something to help support that system.  So, I went to work studying, and I put this formula together.  The oils that I'm going to present now are in that formula.

This is Ravensara aromatica.  It comes from a plant that's a combination of clove and nutmeg, and grows in Madagascar.  It is high in sesquiterpenes, which stimulate the immune system.  Look here:

and it's indicated for:

And that's just one of the oils in the immune blend.

Here's another one: oregano.  You know, you need to quit cooking with it, and start juicing it and snorting it.  Okay?  (Audience: laughter).  Look here: phenols, the number one constituent, responsible for the oxygenating activity of oils.  It's

This one you'll like: frankincense.  It's mentioned 52 times in the Bible; and was part of the holy anointing oil.  Okay: it contains sesquiterpenes, which go beyond the blood-brain barrier.  Look here:

and can be used for:

I got involved with a doctor in Scottsdale, Arizona, Dr. Terry Friedman, a medical doctor.  I asked him if he would like to do some research, and work with the oils, to see what he could create, and he said, "I would love to."  As of this day, one year from the time we started, he now has 9 out of 9 cancer patients in remission, from prostate and lymphoma and Hodgkin's.

That's documented by the way.

Hyssop oil, the oil that Moses used.  Look here:

It's prescribed for rhinopharyngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, cystitis, post-infections, sclerosis, plaque, ovarian problems.  It just goes on and on and on.

Mountain savory.  Look here:

and it's used for:

and right on through arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis.

All of these oils are found in the immune blend formula.

This is cistus oil, commonly called rock rose.  Beautiful oil.  Same thing; here we see the phenols again:

and is used for auto-immune diseases, as well as for arthritis, rheumatism, plaque and other things; but primarily for viruses affecting the auto-immune system.

We had a beautiful situation at one of the seminars in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.  A a nurse said,

Dr. Young, can I share a story with you?  One of the doctors I work for has a patient with lupus.  She's had it for a number of years, and as she's getting older, the lupus has just been progressively getting worse and worse and worse.  She was in the hospital for tests and change of medication, and my doctor told her to get her affairs in order; there was nothing that could be done.

I felt so bad that, when she started to leave, I just walked her out and I gave her my bottle of the immune blend.  I said, "Why don't you take this home and just rub it on, and see if it'll make you feel a little better, and help you a little bit.  Some of the oils here have been found to help support the immune system."

The lady took it home; and three days later, she called the nurse back and said, "What did you give me?"

The nurse asked, "Why?"

She said, "I'm feeling better.  My strength is coming up, my energy is coming up."

Five days after that, which was a total of 8 days, she returned to the doctor for a checkup.  He couldn't find one symptom, not one trace of lupus.

God knew we were going to have these diseases.  He knew what we were going to deal with.  Do you think he put us down here to be victims?  Absolutely not.  He gave us everything we need to take care of the human body.

This is clove oil.  Look here:

and can be used for:

That was clove oil.

I mean: it's so incredible to see what can be done, and what can be created.  So, I've made it a major focus to create formulas to support the immune system.

Essential Oils: The missing link in healthcare

It's been a real pleasure to be here and share with you what I call the Missing Link, and what I also find to be the most exciting thing that has been rediscovered in the world: the world of essential oils; how we can use them in our food products, in our food supplements, and create a beautiful opportunity to build the immune system, and not become a victim.

Let's be thankful for what we have.  Let's always have thanks in our hearts for all that we have.  Let's live with that, and keep a smile on our faces, and joy in our hearts.  Let's share with the world the blessings God gave us a long time ago.

Thank you for coming and participating.

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