Clinical Essential Oils: October 2014

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Troubleshooting Effectiveness of Essential Oils

It's aggravating to follow instructions in a book, and not get the results you're after. "What's wrong?" you ask. "Do I have poor quality oil? Where the instructions wrong? Was I missing something?" You go to the internet and find the same instructions in a dozen places. "I guess essential oils just don't work for me." you conclude.

It would be a tragedy for you to reach that conclusion, because they do work, and they work wonderfully.

Instead, let's trouble shoot some of the reasons this one trial may have not worked for you so you don't give up on essential oils entirely.

What Could Have Gone Wrong?

Poor-Quality Oils

Please search for the posting on Essential Oil Quality, to help you recognize if the oils you've purchased are Clinically reliable.

Poor-Quality Advice
There is a lot of information on the internet that has been copied and pasted from the original books on essential oils by Tisserand, Worwood, Lawless, Davis, and others. Much of it is written of what Dr Penoel calls, "timid, English-style aromatherapy." Many of the dilutions recommended are just not strong enough to do the job. They may have some minor effect, but not what you would expect in a clinical setting.

Then there are the books and websites that give instructions and promise results that make no sense if you understand how essential oils actually work. You see instructions for curing cancer and other serious diseases that are way beyond the capacity of essential oils. This kind of advice hurts the industry and lowers the confidence of those who trust us to deliver results. The scientists come to disrespect us so they won't conduct trials of essential oils, and we have trouble convincing anyone to try our convincing and logical instructions.

The Clinical use of essential oils has grown tremendously over the last 3 decades. As people try the instructions and therapies recommended by experts, they begin to focus on sharing those that work and ignoring those that don't. The Internet is a tool we can use to help each other honest and verify the value what is recommended.

We offer several valuable tools to help you identify those instructions that are most likely to consistently work for you.

* Ratings, We show ratings by Marcel Lavabre and by Dr Penoel on therapies and oils that they indicate are most affective and powerful. You'll see +++++P for Dr Penoels ratings for L'Aromatherapie Exactement or +++++L for Lavabre's ratings in Aromatherapy Workbook.
* You'll see a larger volume of research and more success stories centered around certain therapies and certain oils.
* You're always going to have more consistent and reliable success with the main essential oils -- tea tree, peppermint, lavender, basil, geranium, lemon, oregano, etc. -- simply because they've proven themselves over and over for multiple uses. That doesn't mean that other lesser-known oils aren't going to be just as effective or possibly even more effective. It just means that the more common oils have had more opportunity to prove themselves and their instructions.

Too Little Oil

The "timid" English aromatherapists have cautiously written many volumes of frightening advice about the dangers of using too much essential oil in a blend. They use the word "poison" a lot and forbid many oils for children and pregnancy that have been clinically proven to be safe. In a way they have done the industry a service because many medical professionals in England have embraced their "timid" approach to aromatherapy. It's largely used for aromatic calming, and incidental help for various conditions, and for those purposes a tiny drop of essential oils can go a long way. In such timid dilutions the quality of the essential oils are not that critical, and the timid results are still real.
However, the medical, clinical, French approach to essential oils use has proven itself safe and highly effective all over the world. Dr Penooel PhD, and others have trained professionals like Jane Buckle PhD, RN, and Ron Guba, and Kurt Schnaubelt who frankly feel that the timid approach doesn't take advantage of all the essential oils have to offer. Millions all over the world are trying essential oils and finding them safe and effective for in-home use in 50:50 dilutions and in capsules as they are recommended. They are verifying quality claims and endorsing the bolder clinical use of Clinical quality essential oils. Competition is also helping us fine the truth of the matter.

Too Much Oil

You wouldn't put a Tablespoon of salt in a 1/2 cup of water for an eye wash. It's too much. It would do harm. You need a saline solution that matches the salinity of tears. The same is true for essential oils. They are powerful an highly concentrated. So, when you're taking them in teas, water, and recipes, you'll need to use some care in regulate the amount of oil you're using.
There is a misconception we all share at one time or another that tells us if a little works well, then more must be better. IN matters of flavoring and many safety issues exacting the opposite is often true.

Take Peppermint, for example. It has a cooling action and can be highly effective in a spray for sunburn. But putting Peppermint straight on a second-degree burn (sunburn) would be a big mistake. In it's undiluted, highly concentrated state, it is no longer cooling but rather irritating. It's too much.
If you're application of essential oil didn't work as well for you as you expected, you may want to check the instruction and adjust the quantity in your blend. This can make a big difference in some applications. For example, diffusing more than 20 drops of an essential oil is too much for your brain and your lungs to take at one time. Using undiluted powerful essential oils like oregano, cinnamon, or thyme all over your face for acne would be dangerous and likely to do harm. You also wouldn't slather undiluted oregano all over your body to get rid of moles, or even diluted oregano. But these strong oils in careful dilution, applied judiciously, offer outstanding clinical benefits.

Expecting Results too Quickly

Beware of your mindset where essential oils are concerned. If you are too focused on the allopathic mindset because of using over the counter OTC drugs, you may miss the outstanding benefits of essential oils. For example: the holistic model that Dr Penoel teaches recommends that when we have a respiratory infection, we don't want to stop the flow of mucous. We want to get it out of the way as quickly as possible so we can accomplish a deep and permanent healing. The over the counter, synthetic drugs will dry up and clog up the mucous -- preventing deep healing and actually extending the disease and giving it a better chance of returning later on.

Our personal experience with Dr Penoel's healing of upper respiratory infections is this: if we act quickly, and apply all the therapies he recommends, the symptoms are very manageable we can work full days with a full-time job throughout the whole illness, and a few days later come out more energetic than before.

Essential oils often work slower than the allopathic drugs, but they work more thoroughly and permanently to restore balance, energy and vitality.

With this in mind, it's important to remember Dr Penoel's advice to continue with his therapies for several days after symptoms are gone. This prevents what he calls "morbid transfer", which is having the infection transfer to other organs for more serious manifestations. Or, it prevents the disease from returning again too soon. Be patient with essential oils. They are safe, they are pleasurable to use, and they provide deep and lasting healing.

Here's another rule of thumb he uses for thorough healing. When you have suffered with a condition for many years, it may take you one month of serious therapy to clean up a year of damage to your body. For example, if you have suffered with a chronic headache for 5 yrs, it may take you 5 months of serious cleansing to rid yourself of them. A quick symptomatic headache remedy, like Peppermint on the temples, may provide some relief, but if you want to be free of the headaches entirely, you will need to pay the price. There are many conditions of this nature that only a deep cleansing with multiple instructions can accomplish. You can't expect to permanently undo serious damage with a single, quick fix.

Allopathic medicines are most often designed to control the symptoms, not permanently cure the ailment. They are not capable of accomplishing the kind of deep healing that many of these essential oils can. But we must be patient and obey instructions to get long-lasting and even permanent results.

Expecting Results That Cannot Be Delivered

This is an error that many of the books and website fall into. We have read the books, attended many lectures, and listened to many so-called experts who claim to cure things that simply cannot be cured with essential oils. Yet, because they want to sell more oils, they persist in holding out hope and selling large quantities of oils to people desperate to believe their stories.

Dr Penoal PhD, has a lot of experience with this in his clinic because he is often contacted as the medical professional of last resort when all allopathic treatment and drugs have failed. It's often a cancer that has spread too far or people who have lost their eyesight and their limbs to diabetes. So much could have been done using essential oils for prevention earlier in their lives, but the best use of essential oils for these people is calming them while they await the inevitable or make it through surgeries. the alloppathic route or even some other alternative routes are the best route for them to take at these serious stages of degenerative disease.

As Dr Jane Buckle PhD, RN, says, essential oils will not grow a new valve in your heart, but they will certainly make a valuable contribution to your calming and healing after the surgery. And that alone could save your life.

If you were disappointed by a recommendation that you thought promised a cure, you may want to revisit the actual promise. The oil recommended for your heart condition may have merely been "palliative" for calming you and helping your body recover after surgery. Many books merely use medical terms that arehard to understand like "vulnerary" (wound healing capability) or "carminative " (eliminating gas). But they don't indicate how reliablle the action or what you should actually expect. The effect may be relatively mild, and some other therapy may be far superior.

If there is virtually no evidence-based research behind the claims, then you're probably not going to experience the results you expect. At least start by trying therapies that have plenty of anecdotal evidence borne out in clinical practice of which there are a great many.

That's why we have inserted Dr Penoels rankings of therapies and effectiveness of various treatments because they represent clinical and vitro findings by actual medical chemists and licensed medical doctors.

Sensitivity

The likelihood of an allergic reaction to a natural substance like an essential oil is much more remote than an allergic reaction to synthetic substances in typical massage lotions. But, if you have any hint that you may be allergic to any topically applied substance (hair dye, lotions, acetone, etcc) or if you get hay fever, asthma, or other allergic reactions, it may be wise to try a patch test.
Dr Jane Buckle (PhD, RN) suggests that you double the strength of the dilution you will use for massage and put it on an adhesive bandage applied to the inside of your arm for up to 24 hours. If the area becomes red and inflamed, you may want to dilute a little more than recommended or even restrict your topical use to the bottoms of your feet only. Dr Penoel (PhD) claims that he's never seen an allergic reaction from applying essential oils only to the bottoms of the feet. However, it is possible because anyone can have an allergic reaction to any number of things that would be safe for the vast majority of us.

Fragrance allergy affects only about 1% of the population and most of it is attributed to synthetic fragrances. Natural essential oils have been used in soaps and lotions for hundreds of years without significant allergic concern (Buckle, pg 84-85)

When some essential oil company distributors try to dismiss an allergic reaction claiming it to simply be a detoxification, this is not accurate, and could be dangerous to the person suffering the reaction.
If you have concerns mentioned above, do the patch test, and always if you have allergies & health concerns, use only "Clinical" grade essential oils, for your safety.

Factors that affect the rate of absorption of essential oils

#1: The area size of skin matters
Even if a set amount of essential oil is applied to the skin via carrier oil, less is absorbed if it is only applied to small patches of skin. The beauty of skin is that we have a lot of it, which allows for application over a generous portion of the body.

#2: Different areas of skin
Are more permeable than others. The palms of the hand, soles of the feet, forehead, scalp, behind the ears, inside the wrists and armpits are more permeable than the legs, buttocks, trunk and abdomen for the water soluble components of the essential oil.

#3: Subcutaneous fat has a poor blood supply
Which means essential oils applied to these areas may tak longer to be absorbed.

#4: Type of skin makes a difference
Mature or dehydrated skin slows the absorption of essential oils.
(Note: apply oils after bath or shower, when skin is most hydrated)

How to use essential oils

Is there “intelligence” in essential oils that makes them easy to use?
I think so.
We’ve learned that essential oils contain an extremely complex assortment of chemical constituents. For thousands of years natural aromatic substances have worked in harmony with the human body. Essential oils are merely the distillation of these aromatic substances. Your body recognizes the oils as safe and natural. Even your cells respond to them and know what to do with them. It’s amazing to think that with every drop, the intricate metabolizing and healing systems inside your body are interfacing with complex, natural, molecular combinations to bring you optimal health and deep healing. Those of us who have used them for decades can assure you that they work amazingly well for what they’re intended. And they deliver many beneficial surprises as well.

Not only topically & aromatically but also through respiration & ingestion. These therapies are not only effective in a medical, clinical way, but they’re also full of unexpected pleasure & delight. They’re also safe & convenient.

One of the great advantages of essential oils is their versatility. If you can’t ingest them, you can apply them topically. If you can’t use them topically, you can inhale them. Or you can do it all and compound their effectiveness.

Topical Applications

General Massage Therapy
Healing touch is the most natural of instincts. We massage the back of our neck when we feel tense. We massage our toe when we stub it.

Essential oils enhance massage. And the more regularly we use them the more effective they become. We feel it’s counterproductive to suggest overly complicated ways of using essential oils. There’s no need for elaborate application systems or complicated massage movements. We are more likely to use essential oils regularly if we can quickly master safe, simple, convenient, and pleasant ways of using them.

Mother’s have been instinctively massaging their babies for millennia with a caring touch that has just the right pressure. So go with your instincts about massaging yourself and your loved ones. If you feel insecure, watch a few basic YouTube massage videos and incorporate essential oils into your massage oils, lotions, liniments and creams according to the following guidelines.
How to create a simple massage oil blend

Depending on the specific therapy outlined you’ll want to blend a carrier (mixing) oil such as grapeseed, jojoba, rosehips or coconut (fractionated) oil with a few drops of essential oils or blends.

Be sure to mix well.
Oil Strength Mixing Oil Essential Oil
Strong oil like 8 teaspoons 1 drop
Oregano, Thyme 1 teaspoon 15 drops
Cinnamon &
Clove
Minder Oils 1 teaspoon 5 drops
(carrier oils) 1/8 cups 30 drops

To decide how much oil to use per massage, according to Valerie Ann Worwood, you will simply “cup your hand and pour the oil into it but not so much that it pours into the finger creases or over the edge of your hand. One teaspoon is adequate for most bodies” (Worsood pg 12). You can mix the oil in a small bowl if you feel you need more. Keep it simple.

The most common, convenient, and effective carrier oils for use with essential oils are jojoba, grapeseed, rosehips, and coconut (fractionated). There are many other vegetable oils that can be used as well.

Rosehip oil is a rich, amber, organic oil that is high in essential fatty acids. It is a wonderful mixing oil for preparations that treat dry weathered skin. It works wonders on scars and is the premier oil for wrinkles and premature aging. Use it in all your finest skin care blends.

Grapeseed oil is a light, silky, easily-absorbed oil that is used in many light creams and lotions. It doesn’t leave a greasy feeling on the skin. It is the oil of choice for those with any type of skin sensitivities.

Jojoba oil is actually a plant wax that is liquid at room temperature. It is favored because of its stability. It is wonderful for the skin because it is so similar to the skin’s own sebum, it has a rich golden color.

Fractionated coconut oil is odorless and colorless. It doesn’t stain and easily washes out of clothing and sheets. It has a long shelf life. It absorbs quickly into the skin and at the same time reduces essential oil evaporation so the essential oils have a better chance of penetrating. It is a digestible and healthy cooking oil and can be used in capsules.

Be sure to keep your blends in dark amber or dark blue bottles and store them away from heat & sunlight.

Drop Equivalents
20 drops = 1/5 teaspoon = 1ml
100 drops = 1 teaspoon = 5ml
300 drops = 1 tablespoon = 15 ml
600 drops = 1 ounce = 30 ml
(5ml bottle oil = 100 drops, less with thick oils may be 80 drops)

http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/treatment/aromatherapy

References from
"Integrated Guide to Essential Oils & Aromatherapy"
All References for using Clinical grade Essential Oils ONLY.

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Top 12 Essential Oils & Aromatherapy Safety Rules

Top 12 Aromatherapy Safety Rules

History and Safety testing have given us useful aromatherapy data.

Rule #1: Never Consume
Essential oils. Even if you read a book by an aromatherapist from a country that uses essential oils internally, they should never be consumed. The practice of consuming essential oils is dangerous and was designed to be done under the care of an aromatherapist trained in that form of therapy. In addition, studies have shown that topical aromatherapy is more effective than internal aromatherapy methods.

(Yes, many of us have added Lemon Essential oil to our water, or Peppermint essential oil for tea, maybe even cooked with essential oils. Many of us have used essential oils in capsules & taken internally. Evidence Based theory resources can be trusted. I would not recommend trusting unreliable sources, graphic recipes on facebook or pinterest. Ameo oils are GRAS (Generally Regarded as Safe) for Ingestion, food quality essential oils. This does NOT mean that all the oils should be ingested, read labels, follow information from Ameo (not other companies).

Rule #2: Always dilute your essential oils before applying them to the skin.
There are very small handful of exceptions to this rule including Lavender and Tea Tree which can be occasionally applied neat, or directly, to the skin. In different aromatherapy books there may be recommendations of essential oils over 3% in massage oils but it simply isn’t necessary. Less is more in the world of essential oils. There is no need to overdose and it is always better to be safe than sorry.

Essential oils are incredibly potent and need to be dispersed into a carrier before applying them to the skin. You wouldn’t wrap your body in 30lbs of plant material so don’t apply that much or more directly onto your skin. Typically, essential oils are diluted into products at 1-3% -- sometimes less and sometimes more, but that is the general rule of thumb. Some essential oils have an intense aroma and price tag combination that allows for their use as low as 0.1%. Take Jasmine, Blue Chamomile, and Neroli for example.

Raindrop therapy is a good example of how undiluted and too high of concentrations of essential oils can be dangerous. This method of applying essential oils is the practice of dripping pure undiluted essential oils directly onto the skin which has many adverse effects. People have had burns, skin irritation, and intense detoxification effects that could have been avoided if this dangerous practice was no longer taught. The human body does not need to detoxify at such a rapid rate, and the skin should not come in direct contact with undiluted essential oils. The practice of raindrop therapy has become such a big problem as a multi-level marketing ploy that NAHA has set up a reporting site to document burns and adverse reactions caused by the spread of this dangerous misinformation. Another MLM essential oil company uses the basic Raindrop Technique under another name AromaTouch, is equally unsafe).

(Consider learning the “M” Technique by Dr Jane Buckle PhD, RN. A gentle massage technique that is considered far safer. IF you have taken “official” certification CARE Institute for Raindrop Technique or Certification for AromaTouch, and wish to continue these Techniques, It’s strongly suggested you add a carrier oil on their back BEFORE the other oils are applied, and repeat the carrier oil periodically throughout the technique. So there is no redness-burning, irritation)

Rule #3: Keep all essential oils out of the reach of children
They are notorious for putting everything in their mouths. Compared to adults, essential oils should be used in half the dosage rate for children for topical application. They are not miniature adults, and their bodies were not designed to process the same ratio of essential oils on their skin. I have safely used aromatherapy on all 3 of my children since 1998, stated Kayla Fioravanti, RA. (Certified & Registered Aromatherapist).

I heard of a case of a woman who read that tangerine essential oil would help with hyperactivity in children. She decided to put undluted tangerine essential oil directly on the palms of her child’s hands. Thankfully, tangerine is safe enough essential oil and the child suffered no serious ill effect. But she had decided to try it on a day that the child had a big test to take at school, and the high concentration of tangerine oil knocked the child out for the entire day and he slept through his test, lunch, dinner… and into the next morning.

(ALWAYS follow the recipe & safety for children, and follow an Evidence Based protocols with err to caution, dilute on children, less is best.)

Rule #4: Stay with the tried and true “Clinical” Essential Oils.
Avoid ones that are not the common essential oils used historically in aromatherapy. Unless you understand the chemistry, it is best to stick with the commonly used essential oils. A trained aromatherapist (or Doctor) can read the chemical composition of an essential oil profile and make an educated decision about the safety of an essential oil. But without that training you would not know whether you should avoid or use essential oils based on their chemical composition of adhehydes, esthers, ketones, phenols, and monoterpene hydrocarbons.

(Consider to only use a highest quality “Clinical grade” essential oil, following instructions and recipes from Evidence Based theory. Rather than creating your own blends, use blends created by Ameo which are formulated to be accurate, balanced, effective, and safe.)

Rule #5: Know which essential oils to avoid or use with caution.
Avoid them even if you like the way they smell or the properties that you read about them. Essential oils to avoid altogether include: unrectified bitter almond, Basil, Birch, Boldo leaf, Blue cypress, bitter fennel, bog myrtle, buchu, unrectified cade, calamint, calamus (brown, blue or yellow), camphor, cassia, cinnamon bark, costus, davana, dog basil, elecampane, fig leaf, horseradish, jaborandi, lantana, melaleuca bracteata, mustard, mugwort, parsley seed, pennyroyal, rue, Dalmatian sage, santolina, sassafras, savin, tansy, tarragon, tea absolute, thuja, tonka bean, verbena, wintergreen, wormseed, and wormwood.

(Note: some of these oils are found in essential oil companies. Those from Ameo, are of the highest quality, accurate sub-species, and properly distilled to be “Clinical” grade. Use them appropriately and they should be safe.)

Essential oils that should be used with caution or at very low dosages include: yarrow, dill, tarragon, caraway, white camphor, hyssop, spearmint, rosemary, and tagette.

(Again, some of these oils are offered by Ameo as “clinical grade” pure, and safe when used appropriately and lightly)

Essential oils that should be heavily diluted due to potential skin irritation include: Cassia, cinnamon bark, cinnamon leaf, cumin, lemongrass, oregano, clove stem, clove bud, clove leaf, while thyme and red thyme.

(These oils are considered “hot” oils, usually found with a larger safety cap on the bottle. Use with caution and consider diluting always. Extreme caution to NOT get it near the face-especially eyes, as these oils will cause serious irritation)

Rule #6: Always wear protective gear while handling essential oils.
Remember that essential oils are very concentrated and should not be applied directly to the skin. If you wear gloves while handling essential oils you lessen the chance of spilling undiluted essential oils directly onto your hands. Even if it doesn’t hurt at the moment, it could hurt later. A good example is how Peppermint essential oils spilled directly onto your hands might not hurt at the moment, but later when you touch your eye, it will burn like crazy.

(Also the residual effect of the oils on your skin, could burn your private area-bathroom time, or a small child your helping with the bathroom, or a baby your changing a diaper).

Rule #7: Work in a well-ventilated area.
Remember that essential oils can enter the body through inhalation. Some essential oils can cause euphoria, sleepiness or can extremely stimulating. In a closed space with poor circulation the essential oils can become overwhelming.

(If you’re a massage therapist, often in a small confined room, consider using an Air Purifier, to reduce the concentration of essential oils permeating into the air. A small fan would be another good idea to circulate the air further & into the air purifying device.)

Rule #8: Use extra caution when using essential oils on children and the elderly.
The dosages should be at least half that of what you would use for a healthy adult. And essential oils are toxic to cats so never ever use essential oils on them.

(If you use on other pets-animals, use as baby dosage, and with a reputable reference guide specific to animals.)

Rule #9: Use common sense
Essential oils are safe when used in moderation. Many substances on earth are toxic when used in the extreme. Too much water can lead to water poisoning and carrots, tomatoes, saffron and mustard will all cause illness when consumed in excess.

(Moderation in all things. More is NOT better, this is a marketing tool used by some essential oil companies to promote more sales. Example: I took a class with Doctors including the CDC, and was reported there are emergency room cases using essential oils, and essential oils are not always safe especially with liver & kidneys, pregnancies, infants & smaller children, or elderly. Not always safe with some medications, consult your Physician if you wish to include essential oils as a regular routine. I personally tried a program called Petrochemical Weight Loss, where heavy amounts of essential oils were applied topically & ingested by capsule. Not only did I not lose any weight or inches, just the money invested in 33 bottles of oils at $620. I also had a lingering reaction, painful “pin like” points throughout the body, diarrhea, headaches, sweating, restless sleep. I was very disappointed.)

Rule #10: To safeguard your business, do not make healing claims about your products.
That would transform your cosmetic into a drug. The rules and regulations for drugs are completely different, and aromatherapy does not qualify for any monograph for approved over the counter drugs.
(Disclaimers are not legal protection)

Rule #11: Always use the botanical name for essential oils when ordering.
Never make an aromatherapy decision without reviewing the botanical name. The botanical name tells the genus and species of the plant and includes information about the variety, cultivar, chemotype, and hybrid when needed. Often these details are the difference between an essential oil being safe for use or not.
(Ameo oils are all “Clinical Grade” safe)

Rule #12: Check contraindications of an essential oil before using it.
You don’t want to be making a sleepy time bath with essential oils that are contraindicated for insomnia like Peppermint, Basil, Lemon Verbena, Cornmint, or Rosemary.

This information is from “The Art, Science & Business of Aromatherapy” Your Guide for Personal Aromatherapy & Enterpreneurship by Kayla Fioravanti, R.A.
One book to consider is "Surviving When Modern Medicine Fails" by Dr Scott Johnson, which is Evidence Based & 209 References to Research are listed.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Essential Oil Quality How to recognize and work with Clinical quality essential oils

I’d like to request a few minutes of your time as you read through this information, to reconsider what until now, you’ve probably accepted as quality essential oils. This is not a sales pitch, but an attempt to educate the Medical field on Clinical essential oils, not marketing hype. Thank you for your time.

Essential Oil Quality

How to recognize and work with Clinical quality essential oils

There was a time not long ago when buying essential oils for dependable clinical use was remarkably difficult, especially outside of France where essential oils have been used for medical purposes for decades. There were plenty of less expensive oils created for the recreational fragrance and flavoring industries where consistency, flavor and pleasing smell were king. But for clinical, medical uses, health care professionals required the natural complex qualities of the aromatic plants farmed and extracted according to exacting standards.

There are four general types of essential oils:
#1> Recreational fragrance oils for things like candles, perfume, household products, personal-care products and potpourri
#2> Food flavoring oils for things like chewing gum, sodas, and toothpaste
#3> So-called “Certified oils” from various marketing companies that claim “therapeutic” value but may not provide consistent quality.
#4>Essential oils consistently suited for professional, medicinal, and clinical use—Clinical Grade

The first two can be synthetic, natural or a mixture of the two. Consistent, pleasing flavor or aroma are more important than medical or clinical value. Cheap, synthetic aromatic oils work for candle, fragrance or chewing gum companies. Even if these oils came from natural sources, they can be distilled or extracted in a way that doesn’t preserve their clinical, medicinal qualities. They typically lack the botanical and chemical precision to work effectively, safely, and consistently in clinical practice.

In the earliest years of medical aromatherapy doctors and researchers discovered that they got better and more consistent results when plants were grown in a certain way, on the correct kinds of soil under the right climate conditions. The plants also had to be handled and extracted according to exacting standards. Through the years health care professionals have continued to experiment and have developed increasing trust in certain suppliers who delivered dependable, clinical-quality oils.
Because there has been no mutually-agreed-upon clinical standard, individual companies in the third category have felt the need to invent their own “certification”. Here is the problem. When marketing companies create their own certification rules, they can compromise quality in many ways for many reasons and still pass their own “certification.” A company-defined certification can be a meaningless marketing system that does not guarantee quality. But here is another standard.

Follow these standards for a “Clinical-Grade” oil.

As the industry has evolved and devoted essential oil users are experiencing consistent results in their homes, there is an increasing demand for quality standards. There are three areas for Clinical-grade essential oils to consider: quality, oversight and development.
Quality

#1: The sourcing standard: soil, botany, organic certification, climate, harvest, distillation practices, and handling procedures.

These are complex issues because with oils coming to us from all over the planet, there are a multitude of things that could go wrong. Botanical precision is extremely important because in some cases even different chemotypes within a species of plants can yield dramatically different clinical results. Chemotypes are like sub-species where a particular constituent or group of constituents dominates. Even when two oils are called the same name, the chemistry of an oil can be different because of inaccurate botanical precision. You need a company who understands and respects these critical factors.

The climate can change dramatically from place to place and season to season, yielding remarkably different oils from the exact same species and chemotype. The same is true of the soil. A Bergamot orange tree grown in Italian soil will yield a different oil – even from start from the exact same tree – than one grown in West Africa under similar climate conditions but in different soil.

Organic certification is a popular but surprisingly complicated standard that many people like to use to simplify their purchases. It is not as simple as it seems, however. Over the last decade organic certification has become a platform for a lot of unnecessary greed and corruption. We can all see when we shop that there is sometimes spoiled or damaged organic fruit being sold for twice the price of higher quality, ripe and nutritious fruit.

However, there are many sources from around the world where organic certification is used as merely a way to fleece the buyer. In many cases the certification is unreliable. Even the most precise chemical analysis cannot identify the slightest difference between organic and non-organic. Many crops, especially wild-crafted ones, cannot post organic certification.

In this area it is extremely important to have skilled chemists and buyers who understand where organic certification is vital and where it is merely a way to make everyone pay more. A reliable company will have purchasing staff that understands these challenges and works diligently to understand the market and not gouge the customer with unnecessary costs due to corrupt certification and pricing practices.

Then there’s the precision required for growing, harvesting, handling, and distilling the crops. Dr Penoel PhD (France) has personally visited farms and distillers all over the world, because it has been extremely important to his medical practice to know the care that farmers and distillers take to create a clinical quality oil. For many years he felt he could only trust small boutique farmers and distillers that he personally knew in Southern France. They exacted a high price from him for the highest quality oils, but he has said again and again, “I would rather have a single drop of high quality oil than a whole drum of junk product.” The industry has become so large now that we must purchase oils from larger farms all over the planet, and we must be able to certify that they practice the same farming, harvesting, and distilling procedures as those small farmers Dr Penoel came to know personally in the early days of the industry. Once again, buyers must be trained and know what they are looking for.

#2: The Chemistry Standard – Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometer (GCMS)

One universal standard that suppliers and retailers agree to use is a chemical analysis of oils using the

mass spectrometer and the gas chromatograph (GCMS). Every batch of oil comes with data from these two analyses. But every batch isn’t always analyzed. Because these tests are often done by independent labs, they are expensive and suppliers and wholesalers may choose to not pay for a new test with each batch of oils. A well-established essential oil company will commission an independent lab to conduct these analyses with each batch to establish a consistent level of quality.

There are ways to verify a quality oil from these two tests, but they are not foolproof. There are many ways to adulterate an expensive oil with cheaper oils or oils that have not been extracted properly, and still pass this test. So we still need other checks on quality.

In addition to the GCMS testing, there are tests that identify other impurities in an essential oil, ensuring, for example, that there are no heavy metals, no pesticide residues, no foreign substances that don’t belong in the oil, etc.

It goes without saying that a reliable company supplying essential oils for clinical use will not only have these tests done independently on each batch of oils, but they may also do these tests themselves, just to make sure that all tests from (1) the supplier, (2) the independent lab and (3) the company match with each other.

#3: Full disclosure standard

Health care professionals need to be able to rely on a consistent high quality of essential oils for their clinical use. However, the essential oils industry has been troubled by lose quality standards.

Companies have been known to claim internal certification of purity, yet delivered adulterated oils. A company focused on quality will create a reliable systems of full discloser where professionals who can read the GCMS charts can recognize the key constituents on each batch of essential oils and certify their purity to their patients.

Not only will the company disclose the GCMS charts and purity certifications for each batch of oils, but they will also identify the region of the world the oil came from and any sensitive growing or distilling practices that produced the oil. This can be important because just as professional wine tasters can identify better years in the wines they sample, so professionals in our industry all recognize that essential oils are natural plant substances. Climate, harvesting and distilling conditions can change from year to year and a high quality oil from a supplier one year may not be as high the next. Buyers in a company with expert quality control will be trained and skilled at identifying the very best oils from around the world in every season.

#4: The government test: Is the oil Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) for Ingestion?

Because the flavoring industry has certain standards for a “food grade” essential oil, the government has established what it calls the GRAS list for oils that are “Generally Recognized as Safe.” This is not a clinical standard. However, because these oils are used for all kinds of foods and beverages where there is no call or therapeutic or clinical use to help with any ailment. The government just wants them to be safe for toothpaste, mouthwash, peppermint candy, Coca Cola and alcoholic beverages. They can be adulterated. They don’t even have to be natural. This GRAS standard prevents us from recommending for ingestion those oils that would be harmful if ingested. For example, Birch and Camphor are not on the GRAS list. We recommend them for topical application and diffusion only.

#5 Organoleptic and physical tests
The standards of visual, texture, smell and taste

An experienced analysis will include evaluation by each of the senses: The distinctive color of the oil, how it feels, it’s thickness, it’s smell, and even it’s taste. These evaluations require long experience with adulterated and low quality oils, but they are one of the most vital test for quality assurance. A company must use someone qualified to recognize authentic oils by each of their senses. This is called Organoleptic Evaluation.

#6 The Standards of Density

The specific chemical weight, or density of an oil can be measured to spot adulteration. There is also a test for authenticity that measures the time it takes for the oil to pass through a specific calibrated channel. This will help indicate the quality of the oil as well.

#7 The standard of refraction

When light passes through a liquid at a specific temperature, the angle of refraction of the light can be measured to give a consistent figure for each individual oil. This is another useful measurement that can help identify adulterated oils.

#8 The Standard of Optical Rotation

A beam of polarized light is used to identify oils that could be adulterated with synthetic substances. An authentic oil will cause the light to rotate in a specific direction, whereas the synthetic version of the same or a similar chemical will not. The rotating angle of polarized light will show a specific movement to the right or the left. If the light rotates to the left it is called levogyre. If it rotates to the right it is called dextrogyre. The more active this rotation, the more pharmacologically active the oil will be.

#9 The standard of solubility

In 70%alcohol we can also calculate the amount of 70% alcohol it will take to create a solution. This measurement is specific for each essential oil . the test is performed at 20 decrees centigrade.
Many of these measurements and standards are not expensive to do, but they are too often neglected by companies that do not adequately test their oils.
(Accepting their oils to be good enough, close enough)

#10 The research-quality standard

The most well respected scientific and medical journals also recognize that studies must be done using the most scientifically pure, high quality, standardized, natural products. This is critical to their unbiased

scientific reputation and repeatable results. They maintain a carefully guarded list of suppliers of products that can be used in their research. These suppliers use chemists, botanists, and biologists who collectively vet (evaluate and approve) the oils using the most advanced technologies in their respective industries ensuring their overall reproducible quality. When research is done on vetted quality oils, the findings are usually not published in journals that are considered unbiased and clinically sound.

That is one of the major reasons why research done on products from some essential oil marketing companies are rarely found in the most respected journals.

A clinical-grade oil will conform to this high quality standard, a standard the scientific community trusts for consistent quality they can recommend to health care professionals and serve as a basis for medicinal advancements.

#11 The human cell test

How does an essential oil interact with actual human cells? Health care professionals have used various inexpensive ways of testing the quality of the oils they purchase. Many practitioners use muscle testing They claim that the muscle cells of the body respond with greater strength to higher quality oils. They will hold a bottle of oil in one hand, raise the other hand and have someone push down on it. If the natural force is weaker for one oil than another, these professionals claim that the oil is less therapeutic or fit for therapeutic use. While this test is widely used, it can be subjective and influenced by individual bias.

There is a unique test developed by Dr Joshua Plant, PhD (Harvard Medical) for identifying a grade

of essential oils that will more effectively penetrate the human cell. He uses a unique, patented process develop while he was studying at Harvard Medical School to test the cell activity and permeability of an essential oil, thereby giving the essential oil powerful clinical benefit that functions at the cellular level. With a unique labeling process, Dr Plant developed a mechanism to track the molecular movement of the specific constituents in a complex essential oil. The patented labeling system allows Dr Plant in combination with the most advanced fluorescent confocal microscopy technologies the ability to track the real time the molecular movement of oils interacting with living cells. This process has been applied to epithelial cells, fibroblast cells, cancer cells, kidney cells, and a dozen of other types of living human cells. Ultimately, this process allows one to qualify essential oils for their efficacy of working at the origin of all human health, namely, the cell.

Oversight

Science and Professional Expertise

This is a team of research scientists, chemists, and medical & health care professionals who are skilled in many disciplines. They will work synergistically with the company to verify and constantly seek to improve the clinical quality of the products. They will offer their collective expertise to bring forward the latest research and clinical practices available throughout the world. They will apply their expertise gathered through decades of clinical practice oil to eliminate any possibility of adulterated oils. This professional expertise is called in the industry a “nose”, or someone who has developed a professional aptitude in identifying any degree of adulteration. They will also suggest the introduction of new products, new blends, training procedures, and tools for use with essential oils.

Development

The delivery standard

As a final step after passing all other tests, a company must bottle the oils in a lab that meets every standard for clinical-grade products and ship them to your door in a way that preserves every constituent you are counting on. You will want to know that the company can pass the highest standards for processing and shipping medical-quality products. There may be companion products like lotions, capsules, and other related products they are offering, so you will want to receive clear certification for the highest quality and manufacturing standards for all products they carry. For a company to meet the highest expectations of the most discerning consumers and health care professionals, they cannot compromise quality. They must control for such elements as temperature, humidity and air quality. Similarly, they must develop a lean manufacturing system where the oils are assembled in a rapid, reproducible, and error-free way ensuring that no adulterations or degradations are introduced during the manufacturing process. (Ameo – Zija has a new state of the art facility, very high tech, and medical quality in handling the essential oils & bottling).

The problem with the word “Pure”
Will only pure essential oils be clinically effective? The word “pure” used in marketing does not necessary mean that an oil is of clinical quality. A pure oil can be distilled incorrectly or can come from a species that is not ideal. Pure can mean that all the complex components of the extracted oil are intact. But it can also mean that some important components have been subtracted to make the oil smell better to boost sales. Both of these definitions can claim ownership of the word “pure”.
Don’t be mislead. “Pure” can be a marketing word, much like the word “natural” with multiple meanings. The purest possible oils that someone is marketing might call “crystal clean” could well be synthetic or of the lowest possible quality where health-care professionals are concerned. Synthetic oils are always consistent in smell and taste. For anyone using oils for clinical use, a “pure” oil should mean one that has no synthetic components at all. It is extracted according to medicinal, clinical, and scientific standards and not just fragrance-and-flavor standards.

Can “Therapeutic grade” also be a marketing term?

As a natural substances, essential oils are not patented or standardized. Calling a company’s oils “certified” or “therapeutic grade” can be misleading. Several companies have promoted the misconception that there is some kind of independent body that certifies oils as “therapeutic grade”. There is no such body at least not a widely recognized one.

This doesn’t mean that “therapeutic grade” couldn’t have real meaning to health care professionals. But because there is no independent body that certifies the quality of oils, it just means that any certification standard is an internal one that is not recognized across the industry. Many analysts and aroma therapists would be happy to find an independent, trustworthy standard.
We recommend the stands given before.

Do companies have to own their own farms and extract the oils themselves to guarantee quality?

No single supplier could maintain farms and extract oils form where they are best grown all over the globe. A single supplier may grow and distill a small selection of aromatic plants on large farms and gain a deeper understanding of the farming and distillation process, but most of their oils will come from a large number of growers all over the world. A broad pharmacopeia of therapeutic aromatic plants requires many different types of soils in many different countries and climates.

Maintaining farms and distillation factories all over the world is costly and does not make economic sense if a company is trying to keep their oils as affordable as possible.

Instead, look for a company who uses qualified independent experts to guarantee the quality of the oils they purchase. Find a accompany willing to be flexible in purchasing their oils from different parts of the world as climate conditions shift from growing season to growing season. Find a company who’s single oils are slightly different from batch to batch because that signals attention to a complete, natural oil with all its constituents kept intact. Choose a company whose Peppermint smells more like a field of plants than a candy store.
(Remembering “seed to seal” is a marketing term. Even this company admits they outsource most of their raw materials form farms they do not own)

Must essential oils be certified organic?

Organic certification is certainly important, but it is far from being the only qualification for clinically powerful oils.

There is a test that is essential to be applied for citrus oils to avoid pesticides that could be especially harmful. This is an absolutely critical test for all citrus oils. In addition, we believe a company should choose organic sources wherever possible. (Noting that not all countries use an organic certification, but the farm source can still practice organic farming).

So who can you trust?

Choose a company that uses all the points of quality listed earlier – botanical accuracy, farming & distilling standards, chemical accuracy using scientific charts, government food-grade certification, sources used by the scientific research community, a test for how the oils react as they actually come in contact with human cells, an expert, “nose” and quality delivery standards.

Choose a company committed to science and the research community that supports it. A trustworthy company will use evidence based research to promote those oils with the most well-established clinical track records. It will promote those uses and therapies that science has proven to be most consistently effective.

Essential oils are not cure-alls. They have safety issues that must be addressed. They are highly effective for certain uses but less effective for others. A trustworthy company will work hard to promote what consistently works to keep you healthy. They will not attempt to oversell, and will be transparent about the relative power of each oil and each therapy.

The company you can trust will not try to sell a novice more than they need for convenient, in-home use. They will offer blends that combine therapeutic amounts of rare and expensive ingredients so you don’t have to purchase the whole pharmacopeia and learn to blend them yourself. Again, leave the blending to the experts who understand the clinical uses of these complex aromatic tools.

How can oils be adulterated?

There are many and diverse ways to adulterate essential oils. It’s a bit like asking how thieves steal or how forgers forge. The minute you think you have an exhaustive list of ways someone invents a sneaky new way.

Enterprising suppliers have, from the beginning, looked for ways to cut quality and charge more. The more expensive the oil, and the more money to be made on the oil, the more ways there will be to adulterate and cover up the adulteration. Here are a few.

Early on, suppliers found ways to dilute expensive oils with less expensive ingredients – synthetic, natural or mixed. Enterprising suppliers even found ways to modify cheap oils like orange and mix them with expensive oils in ways that would not make the gas chromatograms and mass spectrometer readings disqualify the oil. The smell could even be a bit more pleasant, so no uniformed consumer would complain. The oil seemed more pure” to them. There were the same high prices with more sales and more profits. More oils were being shared and becoming popular. Would it matter if the therapeutic results were a bit lower? There is some therapeutic value in all oils if only for the placebo effect.

Deceptive subtraction

Some suppliers have learned that by subtracting certain slightly disagreeable components from a popular oil, they will sell more. Their Peppermint will smell a bit more like candy store and their Lavender more like a beauty boutique. The slightly meadow-like aroma is missing, and only an expert can smell the deception. But what about the lost medical value from those less aromatically pleasing components?

Essential oils can have hundreds of constituents each of which performs its unique medical function in the oil. There is plenty of scientific evidence that when you isolate the individual chemical components you miss the buffering and synergistic effects of the combination nature has given us in having all the components together.

A trustworthy company will not claim to give you all the components of a clinically complex oil and yet subtract ingredients without disclosing the subtractions.

The “nose” knows

Just as we need experts in forgery to catch the craftiest crooks, we sometimes need experts with significant practical clinical experience to spot the craftiest adulterations, Dr Penoel has been used for decades to identify fraudulent oils. He knows the “noses” in the industry – the experts whose experience and integrity can be trusted. He knows when a poor quality oil will not help his patients.
It’s interesting to watch his ritual as he evaluates an assortment of oils. He will carefully experience and evaluate the range of constituents in each oil, remembering the vast numbers of oils sent to him from every corner of the world for his evaluation. When he finds a fraudulent oil, he will exclaim like a banker who has spotted a forged check “Just smell that oil! It is Dead. Can’t you smell it? It is therapeutically dead!” The amazed onlooker attempts without success to smell and feel the difference. But the nose knows. And the nose knows other noses he can trust to know.
So does your nose know? With plenty of clinical experience comparing effective and less effective essential oils, we can all educate our noses. Until then, we will need to trust the trained “noses” on the medical advisory boards of the most reliable companies.

How to certify to your health care provider that you are using the highest quality essential oils and following recommendations from trustworthy health care professionals.

We believe in science-based, alternative and complementary medicine. We want you to be knowledgeable enough about essential oils to help identify those medical doctors, naturopathic doctors and other health care professionals who will be happy to take advantage of the amazing benefits of “Clinical-quality” essential oils. Then we want to assure them of the quality of the oils you will be using and the advice you will be following. In France there is certification training for medical professionals in the use of essential oils and other plant extracts. There is a need in the English-speaking world for such training.

Here are some questions Dr Penoel suggests that we could ask our health care providers to recognize if they are receptive to working with “clinical” quality essential oils. We are not trying to disqualify them, but we want to learn how much experience they have with Clinical aromatic therapies and how open they are to integrating them.

* What training or certification if any have you had in plant-based medicine, alternative medicine, naturopathic medicine, or more specifically, Clinical essential oils?
* Is your practice integrated with alternative therapies or are these kinds of clinical practices only recommended occasionally?
* Can you refer me to patients who have worked with you in alternative medicine? (Permission granted because of the HEPA laws now).
* If you have worked with clinical essential oils, do you recommend them for dermal absorption, olfaction or ingestion; all three or just the first two?

How essential oils are different from Prescription medications?

Essential oils are deeper, typically slower, and definitely safer. They offer more complete restoration of health, but they take time. Dr Penoel says, “I always tell my patients that they are beginning a program of at least one year of combining clinical essential oils with balanced whole food nutrition. In most cases, even after my patients are completely healed, they continue using their clinical essential oils and healthy nutrition.” (Penoel, Guide, pg 14).

Those who take many synthetic medications, especially elderly people, need to work with knowledgeable health-care professionals and should never discontinue medications without consulting them. Drug interactions are complex and dangerous with significant risk.

Clinical essential oils are like concentrated foods, and like wheat, dairy, or nuts, some may cause allergic reactions, especially in those who are not accustomed to a largely plant-based diet. And some Clinical essential oils will help overcome allergies of their symptoms.

Even though our internal organs may look the same, they can function very differently from person to person. Clinical essential oils may not work for you exactly as stated in a qualified book in every case. That is true for pharmaceutical medications as well as clinical essential oils.

In France medical doctors exchange essential oils frequently in an attempt to identify the perfect oil or blend for each patient and each disease. They will take a swab of a microbe that seems to be causing the disease and measure the sensitivity to 30 or more essential oils. They will measure the size of the circle created when the oil is applied to the microbial culture. This is the very same test that is used to identify the specific antibiotic that should be used to combat a particular bacteria.
We encourage you to exchange oils and blends as well, and try different ones until you find those that work exceptionally well for the concerns that you have. For example, if Peppermint is too strong for you, try Spearmint. Rosemary may not be as effective as Sweet Basil for your body. Your body will tell you as you try different oils and blends. There are always multiple options.

This is not a fix-the-symptom, fight-disease program

This information was created to help you embrace health and prevent illness by helping you adjust your lifestyle and form new, healthy habits involving essential oils. Most serious illness has been developing in the body for 20 to 50 years. Dr Penoel teaches that however serious a disease may be, all disease is a result of only three things: (1) poor vitality, (2) toxic buildup, and (3) blocked energy flow. All three can be helped safely and effectively over time by using essential oils.

Science-based allopathic medical professionals are usually extremely good at diagnosis. All serious conditions require professional diagnosis. This information is not designed to diagnosis. Serious medical conditions like cancer and other degenerative diseases that have been forming in the body for decades require treatment beyond the scope of basic reference guide texts. Essential oils can greatly enhance such treatment, especially under the supervision of trained and certified professionals in complementary medicine. They will become more open to complementary medicine if you assure them that your use of essential oils is not an attempt to replace their professional guidance.

A professional who works with serious illnesses is like a pilot trained to fly a commercial jet. You wouldn’t expect a teenager new from drivers training to pilot the jet. The conditions you can work with from home using clinical essential oils are like learning to drive a car. When we mention serious illnesses, we do not imply that our treatment is the only thing that can work. It will be complementary to the treatment offered by trained professionals. We will not attempt to oversell or over-recommend clinical essential oils. They can stand alone for many in-home uses, but for serious illness, you will want to work with a trained expert. Please don’t attempt to diagnose or prescribe essential oils for anything that requires professional attention. Our recommendations will attempt to guide you in these decisions.

The challenges of Clinical essential oil research

How is research on the medicinal value of clinical essential oils different from research on synthetic pharmaceutical products? The research process, as Dr Kurt Schnaubelt describes it, is typically “reductionist”, meaning that the medical value of an oil must be researched as the sum of its chemical constituents. As Schnaubelt explains it, “In a reductionist experiment only one of the possible variables is allowed to change All others have to be kept at a constant value.” (Kurt Schnaubelt, “The Healing Intelligence of Essential Oils” pg 12). This type of research works well for single-component drugs like aspirin. But with clinical essential oils, “there is a potentially very large number of components contributing to the curative effect – this process is elusive, as the same experiment would then have to be repeated for each component of the clinical essential oil. While this might be the proper reductionist procedure, it describe a meaningful reality.” (Schnaubelt, “Intelligence” pg 12)
“Using Lavender as a remedy for burns is… highly effective, but only within the aromatherapy community. Pharmacology does not recommend the use of Lavender, since it cannot find an active ingredient that mimics the effect of the whole oil” (Schnaubelt, “Intelligence” pg 12). And, therefore, because it can’t be researched in traditional way, it isn’t typically recommended by the scientific community no matter how effective it is shown to be in actual clinical practice.

Dr Penoel also explains that essential oils are difficult to test using typical double blind studies because of the telltale aromas involved. These constraints, along with the obvious lack of funding, keep the research on clinical essential oils relatively limited. All pharmaceutical companies are looking to earn huge profits from patentable, standardized, synthetic ingredients. They can afford expensive tests. Essential oils are natural and do not have huge pharmaceutical profits to promote their research.

Is there solid scientific research on the medicinal uses of essential oils?

Absolutely, yu have only to type “essential oils” into www.pubmed.gov to see at least 12,891 items of published research, most of them in well-respected scientific journals. In several sections of respected literature, we will list some of the studies. Because these products work and are being used in millions of homes all over the world as well as by medical professionals in clinics and hospitals all over the world, they cannot be ignored by the scientific community. Because of the dangers of overprescribing antibiotics, clinical essential oils are also becoming the best alternative for use in veterinary medicine and agriculture. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Clinical+Grade+Essential+Oils

In the European Union, laws have recently been established to phase out half of the antibiotics in the food given to livestock and replace them with clinical essential oils. This is a huge effort that will require the production of much larger quantities of clinical essential oils. This is encouraging news for the entire clinical oils industry.

In conclusion, I’d like to introduce you to the first “Clinical” grade Essential Oils company in the USA. Before now, clinical grade essential oils where mainly obtained through France. Please do not be mistaken by “therapeutic” grade, which is a self -marketing term of some other essential oil companies. I’d like to direct you to your computer, to http://ameo.com/ameo-difference where you can type in these batch numbers from my personal supply of Clinical essential oils.

Frankincense #34254
Peppermint #34222
True Lavender #34266
Bergamot #16514

Just to get started & see the complete test on each batch. This is the only company that will provide the full testing on each batch of their clinical essential oils.

When you’re ready, you can provide “clinical” grade essential oils for your clients with your supervision and guided uses. And provide “Clinical” grade essential oils and physician pared literature & books for client’s home use.

With essential oils becoming more popular in the general public, and more accepted. We want to educate the general public on what clinical essential oils are vs therapeutic or certified (both marketing terms) and the safety issues, that even clinical essential oils are not a cure all nor should they be replacing physicians and medications. The marketing of other essential oil companies has brought the use of essential oils near a dangerous practice. Our goal is to educate, as well as provide the safest clinical grade essential oils. Correct use, educated use, not pushing more oils in an uneducated fashion.

Monday, October 20, 2014

The Birth of Modern Medical Aromatherapy & Clinical Essential Oils

In the 20th Century the medical benefits of essential oils were recognized by a French chemist, Rene-Maurice Gottefosse (1881-1950), who is considered the "Father of Aromatherapy." He "suffered serious burns to the hands in a laboratory explosion, and the wounds soon became gangrenous; he was able to effect a perfect cure using essence of lavender" (Jean Valnet MD, "The Practice of Aromatherapy" pg 66).

In 1928 when Alexander Fleming began his work on penicillin -- the origins of modern antibiotics -- Gattefosse in France was doing his serious investigative research into the therapeutic properties of essential oils. It is interesting that both of these famous pioneers were born in 1881 and died in 1950s. Gattefosse coined the term "aromatherapie" and is now considered the "father of modern aromatherapy".

Pharmacists in France were quick to recommend Eucalyptus and tea tree essential oils for things that were being treated elsewhere in the world with penicillin. Oil of oregano and penicillin have relatively equivalent strength against harmful bacteria.

The big difference is that penicillin and all the subsequent strong, pharmaceutical antibiotics could make a fortune for the manufacturers because they could be standardized, synthesized, and patented, while essential oils were natural substances. So essential oils were largely ignored by the medical establishment except in France and elsewhere in Europe where there was already significant published research.

Gottefossee incorporated a blend of essential oils used in treating the Spanish flue epidemic of 1918. His successor in the practice of aromatherapy, a French medical doctor & surgeon, Jean Valnet "Made use of the healing properties of essences in wartime surgery on some of his patients in Tonkin, and though having only a very limited quantity of his own aromatic essences he was able to treat as many patients as he liked, the results, were consistent" (Valnet pg 66). When he returned to Paris he continued his great work with plant extracts and devoted his life to the research and development of therapeutic plant medicines.

In 1971 Dr Maurice Girault coined the term "aromatogram" for antimicrobial therapy involving essential oils. Doctors would take microbial cultures and use various essential oils in vitro to recognize which oil or blend would be best to treat the disease. Dr Valnet helped to spread this concept to the general public.

Valnet also published the book "The Practice of Aromatherapy" in 1978, which became the first training for Dr Penoel and Pierre Franchomme on essential oils therapy.

The Modern use of essential oils has continued to grow rapidly as chemists like Pierre Franchomme and modern doctors like Danial Penoel conducted research in the laboratory and medical clinic to validate the numerous health and wellness benefits of clinical grade essential oils. Their book "l'Aromatherapie Exactement" (Precise Aromatherapy), published 1990, became the "bible" of aromatherapy at the time. And everyone who has to be trained in the use of therapeutic essential oils after 1990 had to understand its contents.

Essential Oils for the Common Man

Those pioneers could see that they needed to do worldwide training to avoid serious problems for their new industry. Essential oils could be severely restricted in some countries; others would use them in ways that were unsafe. So there began extensive training.

The English-speaking countries were already doing what the French medical doctors called "timid" aromatherapy with too many restrictions and rules. In these countries the oils were greatly diluted and only applied topically.

"You can't really accomplish anything significant with microbes and many health issues that timid approach," says Dr Penoel. "It's like having a wonderful pocket knife without ever opening the blade." You have no real therapeutic value when all you can do is use a two percent (2%) essential oils solution in a carrier oil for topical massage.

While medical doctors in France were prescribing essential oils for internal and external use, the English and American schools of aromatherapy allowed for no ingestion and no undiluted application. According to Dr Penoel, "They were missing most of the power of true medical aromatherapy. And that's why we see in the USA and the UK mostly recreational fragrances and dead, synthetic essential oils in most shops".

The pharmaceutical establishment has always tried to instill fear about essential oil safety even though they are used extensively in the food industry and animal husbandry. The English-speaking aromatherapy establishment seems to want to keep the information so complicated that all medical decisions have to be kept away from ordinary people and only in the hands of trained professionals certified to practice aromatic medicine.

You can care for Yourself Afford-ably, Safely, and Effectively

Because of the simplicity and safety of essential oils, the mission of Dr Penoel and the companies he has worked with has been to empower lay people to care for themselves safely, affordably, and effectively using the most beneficial oils and blends. Because essential oils are so multifunctional, powerful, and effective, a large body of training literature is available online. It can seem overwhelming to the newcomer, but you don't need a medical degree or even a certification to use them effectively. Here are Dr Penoel's instructions for our training:

"We need to distill all the complicated training into its essential simplicity. What you will find in my

training is profound in its background and depth of knowledge and research, yet simple in its teachings and habits. I advocate fundamental habits using... essential oils that will restore health in a deep way. My training is not about the quick cure. A quick cure is like a mirage -- all show but no permanent health" (Penoel, notes from online training, not in print).

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Clinical Grade Essential Oils & World Renown Doctors of Medicine in the Field of Aromatherapy

Biography of Dr Daniel Penoel, MD (France)

is one of the foremoast authorities in the world on essential oils. He has worked with essential oils in his medical clinic since 1977. He is a world-renowned medical doctor, researcher, educator and Life helping Life; Unleash your Mind/Body Potential with Essential Oils, Natural Home Health Care Using Essential Oils, and Guide to Home Use of Essential Oils. He has authored several books in French, his most notabe being L'aromatherapie exactement, considered by many professionals to be "the encyclopedia of essential oils" when it was published in 1990. It was written with Pierre Franchomme, a chemist, who is credited with laying the foundation for the practical study of essential oil chemistry. Dr Penoel's role in the book "Integrated Guide to Essential Oils & Aromatherapy" was to provide the practical, clinical foundation.

author. With his wife Rose-Marie, Dr Penoel has authored three books in English:

Dr Penoel has lectured to, encouraged, and trained most of the foremost professional aromatherapists in the world. He has either personally or through his students and books trained virtually all well-respected aromatherapists worldwide. Most English authors reference L'aromatherapie exactement frequently even though the book has never been translated into English.

The Penoels have lived in France and Australia and have traveled the world lecturing and training. Dr Penoel is considered by many to be the world's leading medical authority on newly discovered essential oils. He analyzes and certifies them as therapeutically valid for clinical use (Clinical Grade).

Forward to “Integrated Guide to Essential Oils & Aromatherapy” book dedicated to Clinical grade Ameo Essential Oils.

Dr Daniel Penoel

A new kind of Freedom
Today we are involved in a struggle for freedom—health freedom. Just as the fragile ecosystems of our planet are under attack from greed and industrial exploitation, there is an even more dangerous and hidden attack against the fragile ecosystems deep inside our own bodies. These are the delicate ecosystems that keep us healthy & prevent debilitating disease.

I live in southern France, and in June 2014 President Barack Obama came to Normandy to celebrate D-Day. If American soldiers had not sacrificed their lives to set France, and the Europe free from the Nazis, what would the world be today?

America and France have always been allies in the spread of freedom all over the world. War has never come between us. Lafayette supported American soldiers during the War of Independence. Bartholdi created the famous Statue de la Liberte, a powerful symbol for all who start a new life of freedom in America.

The struggle for freedom from disease began with two contemporaries across the English Channel from each other. In England the discovery of antibiotics took place in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming. It spread to Germany with the discovery of sulfa drugs 1935. At the same time, a French chemist, Rene-Maurice Gattefosse, created a concept and coined the word “aromatherapie”. At that same time, in Australia, doctors, surgeons and pharmacists were showing interest in antimicrobial essential ils. There were two paths to freedom from disease: patentable synthetic drugs and natures multi-constituent essential oils.

The first path has been spectacular success but also alarming danger to the delicate ecosystem of the body as costly synthetic drugs have proliferated and grown enormous industries throughout the world.

In countries other than France, aromatherapy took on a new meaning—recreational fragrances, ceramic diffusers, aromatic candles, massage with a drop or two of a fragrant synthetic or natural oil in a relaxing massage oil. But when French doctors use the word, “aromatherapie,” we think of medical and surgical procedures and pharmaceutical applications of natural essential oils. We are delving into the field of medicine and surgery with biochemical and pharmacological research, studying and using the tens of thousands of bio-active molecular components.

Such research has been conducted for decades and is fully recognized by the research communities of almost all universities worldwide. Thousands of papers and articles have been published in the most respected, peer-reviewed scientific journals regarding essential oils. The goal of this book is to expand your definition of aromatherapy far beyond the aromatic hobbies and pot pourris (“rotten pots” in French). Here you will discover simple, practical actions you can take to free yourself and your family from bondage to a health care system that is becoming financially out of reach for more and more people.

You are beginning an adventure that will restore your freedom from disease and from a lot of synthetic, chemical molecules that have no place at all in the complex and delicate ecosystem of your body or our living planet.

I am a Medical Doctor, and I respect medicine as a science, as an art, and as a technical discipline. But I want you to have an intelligent and respectful medicine, a medicine independent from the relentless pressure exerted by the all-powerful pharmaceutical lobbies.

I simply wish that my medical colleagues all over the world might accept that there are ways for creating true, deep and sustainable health outside the synthetic/ chemical/ pharmaceutical industries. And this applies to animals and plants as well, I call it Life Helping Life, and it applies to every living creature.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that pharmacies must be totally excluded from our health-care systems. I am simply saying that, for hundreds of years, we have turned to the natural properties found in plants, and especially in aromatic plants and their powerful molecules. They should be our first choice in trying to stay healthy and eliminate diseases.

This book was born out of a close relationship with the American disciple of mine, Bill Fifield, who not only studied under my supervision, but has also lived the aromatic lifestyle for many years. I have carefully proofread the text for accuracy and safety from a scientific and medical perspective. I am grateful to Bill for keeping my teachings simple, practical, and understandable because I have a natural tendency to delve too deep and make things too complex. This book was also a perfect way to introduce other interesting, efficient and simple ways of applying essential oils, like the “M” technique invented by Jane Buckle (PhD, RN).

The medical use of essential oils is at the core of my daily medical practice. I have a deep interest in all forms of natural medicine, but essential oils remain at the top. They represent the ultimate power of nature. They also represent the ultimate way to empower each person on this planet to become responsible for his/her own health and the health of their loved ones.

This book will give you the intensive procedures and powerful techniques that have been implemented in France by medical doctors for decades. I like to compare the timid, aroma and massage-style aromatherapy to using a pocket knife that is kept in its leather pouch and never opened!

If you suffer from sinusitis, whether acute or chronic, you cannot expect significant results from a few drops of essential oils evaporating from a warm ceramic. You need to learn safe, clinical techniques.

Ingesting essential oils has always been “strictly forbidden” in the soft, massage approach. But culinary spices and aromatic herbs have been used all over the planet for thousands of years. These contain exactly the same molecules that penetrate from essential oils into our digestive system! Our digestive systems, and our bacterial flora, have lived with aromatic molecules from the very beginning. You don’ tget a prescription to buy a “tobacco” bottle! You don’t need a pharmacist to press a clove of garlic into your favorite sauce, sprinkle curry powder on your rice or use pungent oregano on your pizza!

In these chapters (the book this forward is written for), you will learn o use essential oils in a natural and easy way in your beverages and your foods. You will also learn when larger amounts are needed. When the taste is not too pleasant, you will learn how to prepare aromatic capsules. My tens of thousands of

patients in France are trained to do exactly what you will learn here. And, guess what? They love it! Being your own pharmacist makes a huge difference. You’re not only being independent but also frugal!

Let me briefly tell you why so much research and medical aromatherapy took place in France in the last century. You will learn in this book how, in the 1950s, Dr Jean Valnet had a strong desire to launch medical and pharmaceutical phototherapy (plant therapy), and aromatherapy in France. His work was highly respected in France. In those early decades, whenever a French M.D. wrote a prescription using plants, plant extracts, or clinical grade essential oils, it was given to a pharmacist who would then manufacture what is called “une preparation magistrale”. It was a custom prescription made for each patient. The pharmacist would make complex herbal teas, aromatic creams or lotions, aromatic suppositories and capsules, aromatic blends for inhalation or aerosols, etc.
It may seem hard to believe, but the French welfare system (“la Securte Sociale”) would pay 90% of the cost. Complementary insurance would pay the other 10%. The patient would pay nothing and would receive a complete natural-based treatment! During these years we performed hundreds of thousands of laboratory tests (aromatograms) using essential oils on bacteria and fungi. We would clearly see their inhabiting power on numerous kinds of strains. The amount of knowledge and practical experience in France, Belgium, and French-speaking Switzerland was unique and huge.
This financially favorable situation, where thousands of French M.D.s where working hand-in-hand with thousands of pharmacists, lasted for about forty years. In 1990, in the year Pierre Franchomme and I published our scientific and medical book on essential oils, l’aromatherapie exactement (Precise Aromatherapy), the French parliament issued a law stopping reimbursements for all plant and essential oil preparations from the welfare system.

Everything had to be totally reorganized. I wanted my patients to continue taking care of their health in a natural way at an affordable cost. We began offering clinical grade essential oils at an affordable price, and began training our patients to be their own “pharmacists”. The research has never stopped. For nearly a quarter of a century, we have seen extensive proof of the effectiveness of clinical grade essential oils and their affordability. Our patients appreciate receiving an education that opens the way to freedom from disease and pharmaceutical bondage.

This book is the first step in offering you and all those who you will influence, the health freedom my patients enjoy. Even as the number of natural health products grows, the role and potential of clinical grade essential oils, used with relevant and appropriate training, will always set them above whatever has existed or will yet exist in the field of complementary medicine.

Yes, I am convinced that you will love learning so many ways to improve your health, vitality, and inner strength, ‘’from the life of your cells to the power of your mind.” Here is my motto and my commitment to myself:

“I will use clinical grade essential oils to support the life force inside me, and I will use them every day of my life until my last day on this planet,”

Once you truly understand the life-enhancing power of clinical grade essential oils and how easy they are to use, you will not be able to imagine even one day without their active and synergistic support.
With my best wishes for your personal quest for health-freedom

Dr Daniel Penoel
Vallee de la Drome
August 15, 2014.

Further Biographies of those contributed to the book "Integrated Guide to Essential Oils & Aromatherapy".

Jane Buckle, PhD, RN

has over 25 years of background in critical care nursing. She is trained in massage therapy, clinical aromatherapy, and herbal and aromatic medicine. She has an MA in Clinical Aromatherapy (Middlesex Univ, London) and a PhD in Health Service Management (Columbus Univ, USA). She was an NIH-funded post-doctoral Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Fellow at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Bio-statistics (CCEB) within the School of Medicine, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Before joining the CCEB, Dr Buckle was faculty at Univ, of Minnesota, & adjunct faculty at New York Univ Bastyr Univ, WA and the College of New Rochelle NY.

Her first book "Clinical Aromatherapy in Nursing, was published in 1997 and was accepted as the text for aromatherapy in nursing. Her second book, Clinical Aromatherapy: Essential Oils in Practice, was published in 2003 and has been reprinted 9 times and has been called "the Evidence-Based text for Clinical Aromatherapy."

Dr Buckle is the director of R J Buckle Associates, an educational consultancy dedicated to integrating clinical aromatherapy and the "M" technique into mainstream medicine. She created a certification course for health professionals in clinical aromatherapy that was the 1st to be endorsed by National Nursing Organization.

Dr Buckle is published widely in medical and nursing journals. She lectures and presents internationally and was a guest speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 1999. In the USA, she was a board member of ARC (Aromatherapy Registration Council) and has been an advisor to NAHAs education committee. She is a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals and has been a reviewer for NIH and NHS grants.

Dr Buckle pioneered a method of touch for the critically ill or fragile called the "M" technique. It is a registered method of structured touch suitable for those too fragile to recieve massage, or when the giver is not trained in massage. Simple to do and easy to learn, the "M" technique has measurable effects within 5 minutes and has been taught in universities, hospitals, hospices and long-term care facilities in the USA since 1999.

Shirley Price

is one of the world's leading aromatherapists and the founder of the Shirley Price School of Aromatherapy, which offers accredidation through distance learning. There are branches worldwide. She is the author of many well respected books including Aromatherapy for Health Professionals, Aromatherapty for Common Ailments, ARomatherapy for Women, Aromatherapy for Babies and Children, Aromatherapy Worlkbook, PRactical Aromatherapy, Aromatherapy and Your Emotions, Aromatherapy: Step by Step Guide, and more.

Kurt Schnaubelt

holds a PhD in chemistry and is the founder and scientific director of the Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy in San Fransisco. He is a Munich born chemist who left his native land in his 30s to spread the science of aromatherapy in California. He became interested in aromatherapy in 1978 when he contracted hepatitis and began looking for alternatives to the prescribed medicines he was given. As a chemist he knew his molecules and recognized that the drugs he had been prescribed were potentially harmful. He discovered the Art of Aromatherapy by Robert Tisserand and The Practice of Aromatherapy by Dr Jean Valnet, two of the leading books in the field at that time. He sourced the finest oils he could find and began sharing. He is the author of 7 books on aromatherapy and many articles on the subject.

Julia Lawless

became interested in aromatic oils as a child when her mother, who was a biochemist, began research on essential oils. In 1983 she became responsible for creating products for the family business, Aqua Oleum, using essential oils as ingredients. She studied Western and Tibetan herbal medicine and became a qualified aromatherapist and member of the International Federation of Aromatherapists. She is well known for her numerous books on aromatherapy including The Encyclopedia of Essential Oils.

Valerie Ann Worwood

is an aromatherapist, a reflexologist, and a member of the International Federation of Aromatherapists. She founded her own clinic in Romford, England where she conducts research on aromatherapy and its effects on various diseases and modern conditions. She consults and lectures all over the world on the benefits of aromatherapy. Shee is the author of several books includng the Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy.

Marcel Lavabre

was born in the lavender-growing region of southern France and since 1974 has been studying ever aspect of essential oil production and aromatherapy. He is co-founder of the American Aromatherapy Association and is the founder and president of a company that sells essential oils. He is the author of Aromatherapy Workbook, a best selling classic in American aromatherapy.

Additional information in the book comes from...

Dr Jean Valnet, MD

(1920-1995) was a French Phyusician and military surgeon who was one of the foremost pioneers in modern medical aromatherapy. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1945 as surgeon. During the war he served in hospitals in Germany and France.

From 1950 to 1953 he was appointed surgeon to the advanced surgical unit in Tonkin, the northern area of Vietnam that borders China. Being low on medical supplies, he bandaged the wounded with aromatic solutions that delivered results well above average.

From 1953 to 1959 he became Chief of the Secretariat of State for War, and in 1959 he left the army to continue his research in herbal medicine and aromatherapy in Paris.

As early as 1948 he began to publish articles on herbal medicine and aromatherapy in many medical journals.

In 1981 he founded the College of Phyto-aromatherapy and Medicine to pursue research on herbal medicine and aromatherapy, established criteria for quality, and educate practioners and users of essential oils. He gave lectures on phytotherapy on television and the radio. He popularized the "aromatogram" a method of identifying the best essential oils to combat microbes in individual patients.

His best known book, "The practice of Aromatherapy" was translated into English and published 1982.

The book "Integrated Guide to Essential Oils & Aromatherapy" can be purchased through a member (or membership) with Ameo, Next Generation Clinical Grade Essential Oils. Contact me today for details.

Personally, I am very impressed with the information within this book, from True Industry leaders, renown in the field of aromatherapy & essential oils, who also happen to be Doctors or PhD in the fields of Medicine and Chemistry. Quite impressive.

I used to be impressed by a leader of a well known essential oil company. Until I found out there was no Doctorate, he wasn't a Dr in the Medical field, and was from what I understand, self proclaimed.
We all begin somewhere, baby steps in our learning process. Many of us are duped by marketing hype, and without knowing better, without knowledge & understanding, we accept what we're being told. Some are satisfied to remain there, partially ignorant to the full truths. Others, like myself, will continue to search, seek out further details, and open minded enough to learn beyond a company.
I would hope that you are much like me, and interested in learning the real truth of "clinical" grade... not self proclaimed therapeutic grade marketing. To be as educated as to the best of your ability to making informed choices for your family. I feel I've learned my lesson, and part one on that is to seek those with official credentials in the field, that are renown world wide and accepted as leading authorities by their peers as well as the rest of the medical and common world. I thank God that I was guided beyond corporate marketing, to learn further truths. I hope you'll continue to follow this blog & join me in this pursuit of knowledge.

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Troubleshooting Effectiveness of Essential Oils

Troubleshooting Effectiveness of Essential Oils

What Could Have Gone Wrong?

Poor-Quality Oils

Sensitivity

Factors that affect the rate of absorption of essential oils

How to use essential oils

Topical Applications

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Top 12 Essential Oils & Aromatherapy Safety Rules

Top 12 Aromatherapy Safety Rules

History and Safety testing have given us useful aromatherapy data.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Essential Oil Quality How to recognize and work with Clinical quality essential oils

Essential Oil Quality How to recognize and work with Clinical quality essential oils

Follow these standards for a “Clinical-Grade” oil.

Oversight

Science and Professional Expertise

Development

The delivery standard

So who can you trust?

How to certify to your health care provider that you are using the highest quality essential oils and following recommendations from trustworthy health care professionals.

The challenges of Clinical essential oil research

Recommended Reading:

Monday, October 20, 2014

The Birth of Modern Medical Aromatherapy & Clinical Essential Oils

Essential Oils for the Common Man

You can care for Yourself Afford-ably, Safely, and Effectively

Recommended Reading

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Clinical Grade Essential Oils & World Renown Doctors of Medicine in the Field of Aromatherapy

Biography of Dr Daniel Penoel, MD (France)

Forward to “Integrated Guide to Essential Oils & Aromatherapy” book dedicated to Clinical grade Ameo Essential Oils.

Dr Daniel Penoel

Jane Buckle, PhD, RN

Shirley Price

Kurt Schnaubelt

Julia Lawless

Valerie Ann Worwood

Marcel Lavabre

Dr Jean Valnet, MD

Essential Oil Quality

How to recognize and work with Clinical quality essential oils