Essential Oil Education

When pain hangs on longer than three months, doctors classify it as “chronic.” What is the usual treatment? You know the regime: ice or heat, pain killers, muscle relaxers, massage and physical therapy. Does it work? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. And when it doesn’t, we tend to just “live with it.”

There are holistic treatments that do not involve surgeries and drug therapies. Things like massage, accupuncture, accupressure, chiropractic, and energy healing. As a healer, it is my job to help those who have chronic pain by finding the right combination of holistic treatments to help them become restored to health without pain. One of the treatments I have found most beneficial is essential oil application.

Essential Oils Can aid chronic pain Sufferers

How? By increasing levels of endorphins and enkephalins through stimulating the pituitary and thalamus in the brain. Essential oils known to be “euphoric” or “aphrodisiac” can produce a feeling of well-being. Those that are known to stimulate the pituitary which secretes the neurochemical endorphins are for example clary sage, jasmine, patchouli, and ylang ylang. Those that stimulate the thalamus which produces enkephalins include clary sage, jasmine, graperfruit and rose.

This is but one way essential oils can aid chronic pain sufferers–through the brain. Finding the cause of the pain is a critical first step–is it mechanical, muscle related, nerve impingement, degenerative bone or joint conditions, congential, trauma or old injuries, or deterioration caused by arthritis or other joint problems. don’t wait until all other measures have failed–essential oils are nature’s medicines and they can be pain relieving, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic as well as euphoric and uplifting.

PS: Our virtual Aromatherapy circle is addressing problems like chronic pain in our weekly teleseminars. No experience needed to join. Go to http://www.ISHahealing.com and click on our healing store for details on how to join.