I hated the smell of it when I first started oiling, but I love it now. I used it for scars on my face. After a few weeks of putting it on a couple times a week the spots weren't noticeable or were completely gone. I often think what would have happened had I used it daily?! I also like it in the Slique gum which is good for weight loss, controlling cravings and overall gum health.
So, at times my grandma is off. She's one of the strongest people I know and the last few years she's just been different. More forgetful and not as quick. The first time I saw her in the hospital it took her awhile to recognize me and she asks the same questions several times. As you yourself become more familiar with oils, what oils you use will just come to you. I instantly thought of Frankincense and orange oil. So what have I noticed in my grandma after diffusing Frankincense for 3 days?
Improved memory! She doesn't ask the same questions and seems more assured in herself. Lately she's been self-guessing a lot and that's stopped. She's also more consistent in mood. She's also been sleeping 10 hours a night along with taking naps. Maybe skeptics will say the pain meds are causing that...but in my own little experiment I've noticed that when she takes the meds and I don't diffuse she's lost. She thought it was 1994 today. Within an hour of using Frankincense she was asking me about work and remembered what book I was reading. That's huge for her! Sooo huge! Even my family has noticed a difference.
Frankincense is a pretty popular and old oil. Remember the Christmas story, the one that includes Jesus :) well Frankincense was brought to him along with myrrh. It's mentioned over 52 times in the bible as a single oil and there's other references where it's used in a blend. Check out Exod. 30:34, Lev. 2:1,2,15,16 and Matt. 2:11.
It's good for: being anticancer, antidepressant, anti-infectious, anti-inflammatory, anti-septic, anti-tumoral, sedative and is an immune stimulant. So why's this important? Well again, oils help our body function at it's highest capability. Having the above isn't our highest potential! So I believe it works, but even the conventional science world is realizing it works! Check out this article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8505251.stm
Cool stuff, right! Here's my favorite part from that piece
"Frankincense separates the 'brain' of the cancerous cell - the nucleus - from the 'body' - the cytoplasm, and closes down the nucleus to stop it reproducing corrupted DNA codes.""Cancer starts when the DNA code within the cell's nucleus becomes corrupted," he says. "It seems frankincense has a re-set function. It can tell the cell what the right DNA code should be.
Working with frankincense could revolutionise the treatment of cancer. Currently, with chemotherapy, doctors blast the area around a tumour to kill the cancer, but that also kills healthy cells, and weakens the patient. Treatment with frankincense could eradicate the cancerous cells alone and let the others live.
All oils are really great at improving cellular function and communication, but Frankincense seems to work really really hard in that area. The historical use of Frankincense was to improve communication with God. It's a highly regarded oil and luckily for us,Young Living distills the oil in the most optimal way to provide us with all of the benefits Frank can help us with. Here's a great abstract from a study about Frank and cancer http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24137478
You can use the oils however you want, but here's some ways I've had great success!
1. Diffuse for mood or wear as a perfume. Science tells us that when we smell the olfactory system in the brain produces an emotional response before we have a cognitive thought. Boost that initial response to be a positive and pleasant one!
2. Apply to temples or wrists to relieve stress.
3. Put it on your skin--anywhere :) it promotes regeneration of skin and healthy cells. Helps prevent and reduce wrinkles when used topically.
4. It repairs and fades scar tissue from stretch marks, acne and surgery. it also helps those areas heal quickly.
5. Stops itching. Apply a few drops to help those itchy areas.
6. Pain reliever-put on joints, injuries or areas that are hurting.
7. Disinfectant- put it on wounds to clean and disinfect.
8. May help remove warts. Apply it several times a day until the wart is gone. This may take a few weeks. This works for skin tags too!
9. Reduces inflammation. You can apply it topically or put it in a capsule.
10. Strengthens the immune system-apply to the bottom of your feet or in a capsule. It increases the activity of leukocytes in defense of the body against infection.
11. Having a baby? Apply it to lower back to ease pain--can also help with calming.
12. Apply it to insect bites to reduce swelling and speed up healing. .
13. Enhance Visual Acuity – Many have eliminated the need for reading glasses by applying frankincense around
the eye area – on the cheek bone and brow bone. Over a period of months, the vision often improves.
Some have even regained the peripheral vision that had been limited. They put one drop of frankincense in the
palm, rubbed the palms together, and cupped the palms over open eyes for 3 minutes 2-3 times each day.
the eye area – on the cheek bone and brow bone. Over a period of months, the vision often improves.
Some have even regained the peripheral vision that had been limited. They put one drop of frankincense in the
palm, rubbed the palms together, and cupped the palms over open eyes for 3 minutes 2-3 times each day.
NOTE: This can cause the eyes to water and/or tingle as the molecules of the essential oils disperse. In addition, remember that the condition did not occur “overnight”, and it may take many months before significant improvement is noticed.
14. Improves Concentration - apply 1-2 drops of on temples and/or back of neck to help improve concentration. Or diffuse it! I think this has really helped my grandmother!
15. Brittle Nails – 1 drop on nails to help strengthen brittle or weak fingernails.
16. Cysts -apply 1-2 drops on cyst 2 times a day until it disappears.
17. Overall health – Healthy Maintenance. Dilute 1 drop Frankincense oil in 1tsp. honey or 4 oz. rice milk and ingest daily for health maintenance.
18. Cancer – Frankincense is anti -tumoral. Several documented cases.
Hope this was helpful! I'm so grateful that you took the time to read this :)
Information for this blog was taken from the above studies and the
"Reference Guide for Essential Oils" (New 2013 Edition) by Connie and Alan Higley. If you don't have this reference guide get it on Amazon or msg me for ways to order it!
