Hi Beth,
It is so good to have someone here on the CureZone forum interested in the therapeutic use of essential oils!
I will try to answer your questions.
I ingest EOs for many reasons, but the two main reasons are to keep my receptors clean from all the toxins and chemicals that are impossible to avoid in today's world and also to raise my body's frequency. Frequency is what protects us from disease and weakened organs/body systems. Here is a link to some information I have posted on frequency:
Frequency And How It Pertains To Essential Oils
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=839146
Balancing Body Frequency using Essential Oils:
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=846968#i
Essential Oil Constituents:
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=839140#i
Oregano is (in my opinion) the best oil for clearing/cleaning the receptor sites. I have a couple posts that talk about oregano oil:
Oregano Essential Oil for clean receptor sites:
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=846602#i
I am sorry to hear you don't feel you are receiving therapeutic benefits from your Frankincense and Myrrh. Can I ask what are you using these two oils for? Maybe, I could offer some suggestion as to how you might find an answer. Many times you need to first get the receptors clear and healthy (OREGANO). When people ask me how they can best begin using essential oils I tell them to add a few drops of the citrus oils (lemon, orange, tangerine, grapefruit) to your daily drinking water and rub several drops of oregano oil (mixed with some carrier oil such as coconut or olive oil) into the bottoms of your feet once or twice a day. This will get the receptor sites healthy and the citrus oils are very cleansing and supporting for the body.
I add the citrus oils to my drinking water. Lemon, orange, tangerine, grapefruit. These oils are high in things like limonene. See my post for more information on these oils:
Lemon, Orange, Grapefruit, Tangerine Citrus Oils:
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I also add peppermint oil to my drinking water. It is great for digestion. See my post on the benefits of peppermint oil:
Peppermint Essential Oil:
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=839178#i
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=871867#i
I use/take Thyme oil quite regularly. It is a powerful oil. It is good for cardiovascular health. More on the benefits of Thyme oil:
Thyme Essential Oil:
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=863418#i
I like the hormone balancing properties of Clary Sage, Fennel and Sage:
Fennel Essential Oil:
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=933507#i
Clary Sage:
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=933496#i
I will stop here. Too many favorites!
A comment about wearing essential oils as perfume. I have found that when going to work or out where I will encounter people, I will wear essential oils that have a 'lighter' aroma like lemon. Ylang Ylang seems to be an oil most people enjoy.
Oh, oh... I forgot my favorite FRANKINCENSE!
I am sorry you don't enjoy YL's Frankincense. I truly love it... We are all different... :o)
Frankincense Essential Oil:
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=839169#i
I have seen first hand the healing power of YL Frankincense. I am sorry to hear you don't feel you have received any therapeutic benefit from the frankincense you are using. I have a family member who had throat cancer and I used Frankincense as the main oil in his treatment protocol with great success. It is not a cheap oil to buy, but there is so much adulteration in the Frankincense market this is one oil I would not personally buy without a lot of sound information on the 'where-what-how-when' of the oil. Honestly, I don't know if there is another company that sells a pure & unadulterated frankincense oil in this country. I have contacted many essential oil companies and asked for info on their frankincense. No one has given me anything that tells me that their frankincense is grown, harvested, distilled in an unadulterated process... so sad. This oil is such an important healing oil. Have you read the book, "The Healing Oils of the Bible"? Excellent read.
A CAUTION about possible dangers of adulterated frankincense (and other oils that have been cut and/or processed with chemicals): Frankincense crosses the blood-brain barrier so anything used in processing or cutting it will be carried to the brain. I have heard of people using skin care products containing adulterated frankincense landing in the hospital with serious health complications.
Because there is so much essential oil that are perfume-grade and adulterated being used in everything from shampoo to food it is hard to explain to people the difference in these oils and therapeutic-grade oils. People will say, I use a skin lotion that has Ylang Ylang and I don't get any health benefits from it. I just like the smell... Most people don't realize that true essential oils are powerful medicines, not just nice smells.
You gave a bit of your point of view on the oils and YL, so I will respond with my position on this company's oils.
And as you said, "Not to cause harm and foul just to let you know my point of view on the oils".
I am not a fan of MLM companies either. I did a lot of research and searching for a company that offered essential oils with the quality of YL's oils. I simply could not find another source to buy this quality of essential oil from. That said I find it of great importance that they are doing documented research and testing on THEIR oils. They truly are the reason we have quality oils that can be depended on to be pure and unadulterated. They know the plants, the soils, the harvesting, the distilling processes used for ALL their oils. They have their own farms and distillers, where many of their plants are grown, harvested, distilled and bottled. They continue to expand their farm land. They build their own distillers to assure they can produce oils that are distilled at the best temperature and pressure. They harvest their plants at the best time so that the compounds in the oil are at quality levels.
I could not find another company who could give me satisfactory information to my questions of WHAT-WHEN-HOW-WHERE for their oils. If I were only interested in an aroma use of essential oils these things would not be of such an importance, but because I am looking for therapeutic benefits, it MATTERS a great deal.
The reason therapeutic-grade essential oils are available in the U.S is because of this company. Their founder has spent 25 or 30 years researching essential oils. Everyone else has just jumped on the band wagon (money wagon). They use clever marketing to sell product. They haven't spent decades researching and developing the highest quality oils that can be produced. This company has had its battles to fight. Their founder has had many mistruths spread about him and the company he developed. This is always the price that is paid by the pioneers. One of the things that people use in an attempt to discredit YL is that it is a MLM company. I wish it weren't. I hate trying to talk to people about the benefits I get from these oils and all they can talk about is that it is a MLM company and they don't buy/use products from such companies. All I can say is that they are missing out on having the BEST! The oils may be more expensive than others, but I feel it is the cost of quality not marketing. Oops... I had better get off this subject before I get bounced for talking MLM! I didn't mean to get so long winded.
I wish someone could offer me a 'better choice'. I just don't think one exists!