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.
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.
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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.
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