A gluten free diet has helped many clients with Crohn’s and colitis. Results for many irritable bowel clients and asthmatics have also been noticed. The proteins in gluten are large and difficult to digest for many people. Some people carry 1 or 2 genes for Celiac’s and their symptoms improve with a gluten free diet. Celiac sufferers can experience symptoms at any time of their life, due to unusual stress, as gene expression turns on and off during a lifetime of stressors. When a Crohn’s client does not respond to meds and other therapies, I suggest a gluten free diet. For those who continue to eat gluten foods, there are special enzymes released in the small intestine to help digest glutens.

I create special blends for Crohn’s and colitis people. However, Allergy blend and Inner Strength blend are essence aroma blends to help balance and promote immune strength. For many people, these are life long foals. A gluten free diet may be necessary to support immune health. Rose Campion Petite fleur helps for those with a genetic condition.

The “cure” always involves personal responsibility and immune balancing therapy.

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Headaches are a common source of pain and often mysterious in nature. Most headaches are related to tension and muscle tightening in the neck and base of the skull. Stress, alignment and ergonomics are often the cause of tension headaches. Aromatherapy is increasing in use for helping reduce headache and sinus pain. These are non-invasive aromatherapy pain products that are topically applied and may be safely used concurrently with over the counter and prescription medications.

Relax the Shoulders lotion massaged onto the neck, collarbone and shoulders is best for tension headaches. Deep Massage essence blend applied on the temples and across the forehead help reduce cyclical pain and pain receptors. Each pain aromatherapy blend is calming and soothing. Relaxation and Reduce Stress blends promote calmness and stamina to reduce everyday stressors.

Migraine headaches have several symptoms: sensitivity to light and sound, nausea, vomiting, visual disturbances, auras, tingling, clumsiness and difficulty communicating and hearing. Many factors trigger migraines: hormone imbalance, weather, stress, fatigue, hunger, diet, trauma and neck injuries. Sufferers should use these pain aromatherapy products: Deep Massage daily, and Relax the Shoulders lotion on the neck and shoulders twice daily.

Sinusitis and subsequent headaches and facial pain are best helped with Decongest aroma blend lightly massaged around the nose, cheeks, on the temples and forehead. The Sinus spray can be used throughout the day for quick relief. Allergy blend is also used when common allergens cause sinusitis.

Ear infections are common to most children by the age of three. Deep Massage blend can be worn to reduce pain during medical treatment. Unwind aroma blend worn behind the ears and/or side of the neck increase drainage and may help reduce re-occurrence. If re-occurrence continues, dietary changes may be needed.

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Arthritis pain is one of the most common sources of pain. It affects any “wear and tear” joint, such as knees, hips, back, neck shoulders, fingers and toes. Arthritis is considered a dis-ease of aging. However, it affects every age group when the joint and cartilage break down from joint stress, diet and nutritional deficiencies. Anti-inflammatory and NSAIDS are used for treatment.

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease. The immune system attacks the joints, resulting in swollen, deformed joints, subcutaneous & nodules, joint erosion and a serum RA factor. Rheumatoid arthritis affects any joint at any age. There are several types of rheumatoid arthritis, including systemic lupus, treated by prednisone and much stronger drugs with many side effects. Long-term antibiotic therapy is often a treatment due to an unknown underlying infection. Gout is another form of rheumatoid arthritis often successfully treated by diet.

One of every four Americans may be suffering from arthritis. Dietary changes can prevent and reduce symptoms substantially. Beef is eaten only once or twice weekly, replaced with fish or fish oil capsules. Fish oil capsule sources must be researched to determine if they are free of mercury. Borage oil decreases swollen joints. Results may occur within eight months. Suggested dosages are 2000 mg daily of fish oil and 1400 mg daily of borage oil. Flaxseed oil also reduces inflammation. Dosage is 3000 mg daily. All of the oils, also known as essential fatty acids, are best taken with meals in divided doses.

Raw pineapple contains bromelain. Eaten raw it also reduces inflammation and swollen joints. A slice can be eaten with a small amount of food or in-between meals. Discontinue if your mouth swells or you experience abdominal pain. Pineapple is too acidic for some people, especially those who have esophageal reflux. Bromelain is available in tablet form. However it is chemically produced and I do not recommend it.

Processed food, high sugar and refined flour intake also increase inflammation. It also stimulates insulin resistance, resulting in Type II Diabetes. Margarine, trans and saturated fats, shortening and grain-fed beef provoke inflammatory processes in the body. Unhealthy fats are best replaced with extra virgin olive oil. It actually can lower inflammatory cytokine levels. Pay the extra money and buy this highest quality olive oil. A detailed description of how olive oil is produced is available in Mother Nature's Herbal.

A healthy diet includes grass-fed beef and poultry, fish, and whole grains in moderation. Nuts and seeds may be included if irritable and/or inflammatory bowel is not present. Sauté vegetables in olive oil and avoid fried foods. Eating mercury-free fish a few times weekly can reduce the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis 20 to 40%. A healthy diet is described in detail in Slice of Life Nutrition and Dietary Manual, including information to obtain optimal nutrition through diet.

Exercise can also help reduce and prevent arthritic pain and swelling. Moderate amounts of regular low intensity exercise in a pool or with a physical therapist will increase resistance to disease.

There are several topical products that reduce inflammation and increase circulation. No more Pain Lotion massaged on the affected area two to three times daily is most helpful. Small areas, like fingers and toes, are helped most-by No Pain Aromablend massaged onto the joints or back of the knees 3 times daily. The Pain Management Lotion alleviates painful stiff joints assuring long lasting relief. Circulation Booster lotion aids rheumatoid arthritis symptoms alternated with the No more Pain Lotion. Strengthen the Back is a sweet almond oil blend used for the lumbar, low back and hip area. It also supports muscular strength for those with chronic low back and arthritic pain. Manage Pain therapeutic blend reduces chemicals produced from pain, stress, trauma and emotional feelings associated with pain. It works synergistically with the pain lotions and aromablend.

Dr. Griffin:

I’d like to relate the following two stories.

My sister started using the oils a few months after I did, and although I tried to guide her using the techniques used to guide me, it was more like making someone take their medicine, and I could tell she was always debating whether it was worth the effort and cost or not.  About a week ago she made the decision that the oil wasn’t working and sent word that she didn’t want me to order any more for her. The week has gone by and last night she sent word that she would like for me to order more of her special blend of oil. When I asked the messenger (our youngest sister), “Why?”, she said that after a couple of days she realized that although she didn’t know why or how, she felt better when she used the oil than when she didn’t.

My sister has used the oil faithfully, daily, and even admitted to noticing that she felt unusual when she was too tired or just forgot to go through the procedure, but  when asked, said she couldn’t tell if ‘it was working or not.’ I knew by the statement that she was expecting the oils to do something dramatic to her, or she would regard them as of no value. I also realized that while she’s not on the wrong path, she hasn’t yet reached a level of understanding, or even faith or belief, that will allow the oils to work with her to their greatest potential,  but she has made a decision and now has a real expectation.

The next story is my own continuing one. First of all I need to say that although I am more drawn to the concept of alternative health and healing practices than I have been to the conglomerate of physicians, nurses, and specialists, I really haven’t had faith in either, and didn’t expectations when I first contacted you. Your documentary made me a little more hopeful, but as I look back on my mental activities at the time, I had already lost hope (in everything except that bizarre universal rarity, the spontaneous miracle). I was just faking enthusiasm and hoping I might win the medical lottery. According to the medical definition, which medical practitioners avidly enforce, the disease that my sister and I have is “chronic and irreversible, and the only available intervention techniques are merely palliative.”  And no matter how much I vocally resisted, Icompletely believed them and almost instantly became a sick person. I remember telling you my sick person story during our initial consultation, and although I seemed enthusiastic about your positive comments and energy, I was more interested in (maybe even proud of?) my illness. What saved me was probably the only true vestige of my former self. (Some of the pre-illness self I remember never happened, but I was truly always energetic and enthusiastic.) I began to have faithfully used the oils, and actually began to feel something about what appeared to be very real progress, but it wasn’t what I expected to feel.  I now know I had to break through the same barriers my sister is facing.  My logs and notes and daily journal showed a sustained respiratory improvement, almost from the first day, but my mind was uneasy and distressed. I called you in almost a panic of anxiety, and you said the most enlightening thing, “Of course you’re uneasy. You’ve grown accustomed to being ill, and feeling better is out of that now normal state and will likely be alarming.”

“I had grown accustomed to being ill.”

And during the last few months I’ve begun to sort out just how quickly I became accustomed (the instant I was given the diagnosis), and how thoroughly I adapted to, and was catering to, the demands of, the AMA definition of the illness. It absolutely ruled my life, and then the struggle to escape that bondage began to rule my life, so it still ruled my life.

Too complicated to elaborate on, but I’ve now spent months developing and routinely engaging various physical and mental routines around the oil and their use.  I wasn’t believing anything, but working with thoughts of what I would want to happen, I started imagining that something about or related to the oils might infiltrate my lungs, “bronchial tubes, bronchioles, and alveolar sacs and surrounding capillary beds”, and repair them – rejuvenate and replenish the alveoli;  cull senescent cells and encourage development of new ones; and facilitate gas exchange between alveoli and blood cells, and (per your suggestion)when I used the oils I would relax and visualize and meditate on those things. Also, per you enlightening statement about adapting to illness, I started a process of resisting negative thinking (mostly expectations.) And finally, I have exercised daily and concentrated on expanding exercise types and increasing amounts of exercise.  From practicing and repeating these, even with half-hearted enthusiasm, I inadvertently created rituals which have elevated the quality of my life in the most surprising ways.

Within this past month have realized that I no longer feel like a sick person. I am aware of limitations and consequences, I have attained a mental perspective from which the disease is incidental to myself. My lungs are still broken, and that still affects me, but it no longer controls me. And the best news is that even as I wallowed in physical deterioration, the other parts of me have been developing and maturing as they always were.  I actually feel more comfortable, and more able, than I have ever been.  Before the onset of the illness I felt immortal. I woke each day expecting to feel good physically, and I expected my body to be able to achieve whatever my mind might lead it into. Now I realize that even when I was operating under that delusion, the reality was, and still is, that wellness or good health is not a state of being that we attain easily, and that we shouldn’t hold lightly. From birth our bodies are constantly contending with attacks by other forces and organisms, so in a sense, rather than anyone really experiencing long periods of uninterrupted wellness or good health, we are always either fending off attacks, or recovering from the effects of successful  attacks. I haven’t transcended anything, I’ve just stopped indulging in sickness.

I was only in active rapid deterioration for a short period of time, but long enough that my mind embraced and amplified all of its aspects, and  most embarrassing, I willingly participated in that misery and resisted its cessation.

Making up for what I lost will require all of my best abilities, attention, and energy, for the rest of my life. Like a normal life.

The essential oils aren’t a cure, but it is likely that nothing on earth cures in the sense that the word/concept cure is used professionally and commercially. They are beneficent catalysts, something able to affect my body’s ability, and even tendency,  to cure itself. I am now able to utilize what I can only describe as a place or state that the essentials oils have helped me discover or maybe even create, within which my mind is curing itself, and as that process progresses,  my body also improves and will continue to do so.

I no longer think and feel like a sick person.

Thank you Dr. Griffin

Kenneth

The adrenals are two glands located above the kidneys. Each gland produces important hormones. They act like the “brain” inside the lower body and are involved with neuro-chemical re-uptake with the brain. Adrenals are major stress organs that affect blood pressure, inflammatory response, immune function, blood sugar, muscle spasms and pain levels. The adrenals efficiency can be lowered by stress, pain and trauma, emotional or physical. Essence blends that may help the adrenals include Reduce Stress and Inner Strength. Reduce Stress reduces symptoms and stressors affecting the adrenals. Inner Strength helps build stamina and immune functions. The adrenals work like batteries and need a charge to keep going.

For those who also have autoimmune diseases and functions, Snapdragon, Yarrow and Recovery will also reduce over reactions and lowered functions of the adrenals. Autoimmune reactions include allergies, hives and psoriasis. Autoimmune diseases include lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and juvenile diabetes. Other illnesses such as chemical sensitivities, diabetes and thyroiditis include injury to adrenal sufficiency. Enhancing thyroid and adrenal function increases quality of life and decreases chronic pain syndromes.

A safe and effective herbal longevity tonic, foti, increases thyroid and adrenal function. In Chine, Foti, Ho Shou Wu, is more popular and effective than ginseng. I do not recommend ginseng for chronic pain and chronic illness because it is “heating” to the body. Foti is warming and nurturing. I have used it to support adrenal/thyroid functions and replenish healthy bone tissue in osteoporosis clients. Foti will return hair to a dark color that has grayed, when taken as a liquid tincture over several months. Healthy hair is a sign of healthy adrenals and thyroid.

Cecil Bruner Sweetheart Rose

As scientists study many causes of honeybee deaths, neonicotinoid and organophosphates have been found to inactivate the learning cells of bees’ brains. These pesticides inactivate acetylcholine signals in all bugs. It takes 20 minutes after exposure to inactivate bees learning cells, including impaired memory and navigation. As foraging abilities weaken, the colony dies off.

Organophosphates, such as coumaphos, causes epileptic activity in bees’ brains before it shuts down their learning abilities. This is a common pesticide used by beekeepers to prevent mites.

On March 21, 2013, environmentalists and beekeepers filed suit against the E.P.A. to ban the use of clothianidin and thiamethoxam, both neonicotinoids. Peter Jenkins, Center for Food Safety, says the E.P.A. needs to protect bees and pollinators, which the E.P.A. refuses.

How are we going to feed billions of people without pollinators? And how are these same pesticides affecting our learning abilities? We eat the food sprayed with pesticides, breathe the air, and drink the water. What takes 20 minutes to affect a bee’s brain could take years to shut down our brains. Nothing to look forward to experiencing as we age, a slow lobotomy.

It didn’t take the E.P.A long to rush approval of these pesticides, produced by Bayer Crop-Science. However, the E.P.A. has been solicited by consumer groups for years for protection of pollinators against these and other pesticides.

Is it possible the E.P.A. is influenced by Monsanto, Bayer Crop-Science and other megacorporations? The E.P.A. doesn’t seem to be open to consumer considerations or demands. And, who is watching over the E.P.A. to do this?

In time, we may not remember! The time to act is now. Until May 15, 2013 Recall Memory is on sale at www.aromahealthtexas.com Please remember to contact your local and state representatives and ask them to protect our pollinators.

Judy Griffin, PhD
1-800-496-2125
www.aromahealthtexas.com

I recently received this question from a client:

Your mentioned blends that stimulate lymphatic drainage.  Can you tell me more about these and how they are used?  Thanks.

The essences and blends are used topically. Herbal tonics are diluted and sipped like a tea. There is info on the health articles (see the left hand tabs on the front page of the website, look under lymph drainage or type "lymph" in the search box in the top right corner and click "Go.") There are several products that help.

The lymph system does not have circulation, like the heart and other organs. There are lymph glands throughout the intestines, under the arms, breasts, tonsils to name a few. These are where toxins can easily build. They are also places where cancers are likely to occur. The essential oils and essences move the energy in these areas and help toxins leave through the kidneys and skin, often the lungs. Essential oils can be measured in the urine output within a few  hours after applying them. I don't know anything that works faster. They are compatible with massage and body work or effective on their own. Lightly massaging the products on any of these areas catalyzes self healing in the body. The body only knows how to heal and compensates trying to avoid illness and keep going.

Call or email me with questions and concerns.

Judy Griffin, PhD
1-800-496-2125
www.aromahealthtexas.com