Essential Oil Education

Exactly one month ago, I fell and broke my arm–a neat fracture of the head of the radius.  Ten days in a splint and the last three weeks just being careful with my arm, exercising it daily. This past week I re-introduced swimming into my regime and this morning I swam 15 laps until the rest of me gave out–the arm did fine. So how did I manage to do so well while being in that over-60 age bracket? Essential oils were the key to my success.

I continue to heal by using lemongrass and Idaho Balsam fir and massaging them into the joint and surrounding tendons and muscles. Are they sore? You bet but I’m finding that my arm is getting better and better with each passing day.

Why these two oils? Let’s take a look.

Lemongrass is an excellent oil for the mending of tendons, ligaments and muscles that have been stretched, torn or ripped. The oil comes from a grass that grows primarily in India and Guatemala. The fragrance is rather heavy and very lemony. Besides being very good for ligaments and muscles, lemongrass helps to regenerate connective tisues and dilate blood vessels thus improving circulation and promoting lymph flow.  All of these reasons helped me to choose this oil above others to speed my recovery.

Idaho Balsam fir has a wonderful fresh fragrance of Christmas trees and is outstanding as an anti-inflammatory oil. Bone fractures can set up inflammation of the surrounding tissues, swelling and bleeding. Idaho balsam fir is a very non-toxic, non-sensitizing oil and thus an excellent choice to use after applying the lemongrass which has some aldehydes that can be quite warming to the skin. The monoterpenes in the balsam fir actually quench the aldehydes in the lemongrass.

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