Frankincense &
Myrrh: Why If You Value Stress-Release and a Healthy Respiratory System You'd
Be Wise to Use Them Too
Gold and Frankincense and Myrrh.
More than two thousand years ago, wise men presented these valuable gifts
to the baby Jesus.
The ancient Egyptians used frankincense and myrrh to anoint kings
and mummify their dead. These days, frankincense and myrrh essential
oils keep you healthy by relieving stress and treating respiratory infections.
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At that time in the ancient world, people considered frankincense and myrrh
to be more valuable than the gold.
Frankincense was the oil of choice to anoint kings and newborns.
It also enhanced meditation and was prized as an exotic perfume.
Expecting mothers used myrrh to ward off infection and to brighten
their moods, while ancient Egyptians embalmed their mummies with it and Greek
soldiers healed their battle wounds with myrrh essential oil.
Today, you can use frankincense and myrrh for a variety of conditions, especially
for stress relief and to heal respiratory infections.
You just may find that these essential oils are more valuable than
gold!
Frankincense and Myrrh: Essential Oils Essential for Health
Frankincense and myrrh essential oils are steam distilled from the sap of
two different trees that grow across regions of the Middle East and Northern
Africa.
The ancients highly valued these oils, and for good reason. Today, frankincense
and myrrh are recognized to have amazing healing properties.
Frankincense is suitable for many conditions and has been shown to:
- Treat skin inflammation, scarring, wrinkles and acne
- Encourage cellular regeneration
- Alleviate headaches
- Treat allergies
- Help heal bronchitis, laryngitis, and asthma
- Enhance digestion
- Slow down and deepen your breathing
- Act as a powerful anti-depressant
- Calm your mind, ease anxiety, and reduce nightmares
- Have properties that can heal melanoma
Myrrh is equally beneficial and can:
- Balance your thyroid and endocrine system
- Heal fungal and viral infections
- Enhance your emotional well being
- Treat ulcers
- Eliminate gingivitis
- Rid your body of parasites
- Relieve asthma, coughs and colds
- Act as an expectorant and rids your body of congestion
- Reduce cholesterol
100%
pure myrrh essential oil from Forever Young is so versatile that
it can treat hypothyroidism and heal common infections like ringworm
and athletes foot. Myrrh is even effective in ridding your body of parasites.
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Frankincense and myrrh truly are valuable tonics for a healthy body.
Donna Gates has been recommending essential oils for your physical and emotional
healing for years.
After experimenting with many essential oils on the market, we've found
our favorites at Forever Young.
While you may not know it, essential oil brands (even those sold in health
food stores) can label their products 100% pure, while still extending them
up to 50% with other chemicals (some of them cancer-causing).
Forever Young Essential Oils (not to be mistaken with Young Living essential
oils) are unique because they are third-party E.O.B.B.D. (Essential
Oils Botanically and Biochemically Defined) tested
for 100% purity. You can immediately tell their quality by smelling
the deep, rich scent.
Forever Young's founder, Dana Young gives us these tips for using frankincense
and myrrh:
Diffusion: Use a diffuser with 15 to 20 drops of your favorite essential
oil (or your favorite combination) to disperse healing scent throughout the
room.
Topically: Rub 1-2 drops of essential oil on the back of your neck,
on pulse points, or on your feet for quick relief. Dana Young also suggested
that 1 - 2 drops on the front of your neck (around your thyroid area) may
help if you have low thyroid.*
Inhalation: To help calm uneasiness, place 1-2 drops in the palm of
your hands or on a soft cloth and inhale any time of the day.
Myrrh Tea: Dilute 1 drop in 1 teaspoon of honey and mix with 4 ounces
warm water for tea.*
Myrrh Beauty Cream: Add a few drops to your customary face and/or hand
lotion and apply to face, neck and hands.
Frankincense Anti-depressant: Place 1-2 drops under your tongue as
needed.*
* Forever Young's pure essential oils have been formulated so that many of
them can be applied directly to your skin, used in tea, capsules or in cooking.
As with anything else, we believe the principle of uniqueness applies, so
use common sense in trying any new food, supplement or essential oil.
A great way to use frankincense and/or myrrh is to add several drops to your
favorite carrier oil (like organic unrefined coconut oil or sweet almond oil)
to create a healing allover body oil.
Whether you use frankincense or myrrh, you might discover that these essential
oils are worth their weight in gold!
Sources:
Frankincense, Botanical.com.
http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/f/franki31.html
Frankincense, Forever Young Essential Oils
Massoud et al, "Light microscopic study of the effect of new antischistosmal
drug (myrrh extract) on the liver of mice," J Egypt Soc Parasitol, 2005
Dec; 35(3):971-88.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16333904&dopt=Abstract
Myrrh, Forever Young Essential Oils
Myrrh, Botanical.com.
http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/m/myrrh-66.html
Myrrh, EVitamins.com.
http://www.evitamins.com/healthnotes.asp?ContentID=2134003
Study: Frankincense may fight some cancers, PhysOrg.com, 31 January 2006.
http://www.physorg.com/news10406.html
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