Essential
oils act as plant hormones, regulating plant functions and orchestrating the
production of vitamins and enzymes. They act as messengers and
supervisors within the plant that help coordinate and initiate vital plant
activities. Essential oils can also do the same when applied to
humans. They can act as neurotransmitters, peptides, steroids, hormones,
enzymes, vitamins, and other message-carrying molecules (called ligands) which
intelligently assist our bodily functions and help to restore and maintain
wellness.
Essential
oils possess homeostatic intelligence. Homeostasis is that state where
every vital biological process within a living organism is functioning as it
should. It is a state of perfect wellness. Essential oils always
work toward restoring and maintaining balance and homeostasis, first in the
plants that create them, and then in the humans that apply them.
Essential
oils also offer wonderful protection from viruses, bacteria, parasites and
fungi, just as they did in the plants before they were commandeered for our
use. With respect to bacteria, essential oils are particularly
valuable. The medical answer to a bacterial attack is to prescribe
antibiotics. The problem with antibiotics is that they indiscriminately
kill all the bacteria in our bodies, which isn’t good. We harbor many
friendly bacteria that help us digest food and engage in other essential bodily
activities, without which we can’t stay healthy. Hence, when you have
gotten over a bacteriologically caused sickness using antibiotics, your immune
system has been depressed and your friendly fauna have been diminished.
Antibiotics (and most pharmaceuticals) also make your body more acidic, which
can stimulate the growth of fungi and other organisms in the body- thus trading
one form of sickness for another. Essential oils also combat viruses,
while antibiotics cannot. Essential oils have none of these negative side
effects. Essential oils have the intelligence to distinguish good
bacteria from bad and attack only the bad while nourishing the good. Essential
oils can also attack viruses and fungi, which antibiotics cannot.
Furthermore,
essential oils help alkalize your body, raising it from an acid state prone to
sickness, into a slightly alkaline state of balance, which is the natural pH of
healthiness. Just living and breathing around essential oils on a daily
basis goes a long way toward maintaining vitality and wellness. The
action of essential oils inside the human body is always toward balance, toward
the state of homeostasis where every organ and cell is working properly and in
harmony.
Therapeutic-grade
essential oils have homeostatic intelligence, something neither synthetic oils
nor pharmaceuticals possess.
Excerpted from The
Chemistry of Essential Oils Made Simple by David Stewart Ph.D., D.N.M.
