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The therapeutic use claims, made on the following India based organic
produce advice site, indicate an appalling lack of knowledge on the part
of the author. There is some extremely dangerous advice given that could
cause severe harm if the advice were followed. This site is not unique,
but it is the worst I have seen for many years.
http://www.organicfacts.net/organic-oils/natural-essential-oils/list-of-essential-oils.html
Companies
are being linked from the site above via the google linking system where
it seems google customers sites are not checked for quality, legality
& honesty. Any linking sites can have their links to the above blocked
if they choose.
The
information provided by this site fails to differentiate between:
1. External
use of the oil in aromatherapy.
2. The internal medicinal uses of the oil - often a historical use when
other safer medicines were not available.
3. The traditional use of the herbal preparation (NOT the oil) as a medicine.
They
also fail to point out to the public the extreme hazards associated with
certain oils such as bitter almond, Rue, etc. on the summary pages.
Note: If you are a student and are taught the kind of
dangerous junk that follows, you need to dump the course and ask for a
refund.
If as
this site indicates, a chemist is involved, the public will presume these
people monitor what their site says and that the advice is sound.
IT IS NOT!!!!!
My Key to colours:
Red = dangerous advice - if underlined it is very
dangerous.
Blue = unjustified advice, meaning no sound evidence
or ridiculous claims.
Green = use of herb, not the oil, or possibly the
internal use of the oil.
This colour=My comments.
Some of the less outrageous claims, and a few oils
where the claims are reasonable are removed.
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Allspice
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
protects against septic, Septic
What????
fights ageing, tones up body.
removes gases
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Anise
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
epileptic, sedates
inflammations, kills worms, protects
against septic, Septic What????
purgative, removes gases, facilitates
digestion.
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Basil
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
eye treatment,indigestion,
blood circulation, vomiting.
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Bergamot
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: cures
wounds; kills intestinal and other worms in the body; fights
infections from virus, fungus and bacteria, brings down fever.
suppresses pain, heals
cuts and scars, promotes digestion.
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Birch
Essential Oil - NOTE:
This is not a genuine essential oil; most of these effects are unjustified;
the oil is very toxic; this advice is dangerous for those who are
not skilled in the use of this substance.
Claimed Health Benefits:
Tones up all the systems functioning
in the body, removes toxins from the
body, helps cure arthritis by removing uric acid and improving circulation,
promotes urination, protects wounds
from being septic, tightens gums and
stops haemorrhage, purifies
blood.
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Bitter
Almond Essential Oil - Note:
the genuine oil is extremely toxic and is banned for all cosmetic
or aromatherapy purposes. Only grades processed to remove the hydrocyanic
acid are considered safe. The forgoing advice says nothing about
the grades.
Claimed Properties: Vermifuge,
anti carcinogenic, cure for hydrophobia
Note: an old term for Rabies
Claimed Health Benefits: Kills
worms, reduces fever, kills bacteria,
germs and fungi, sedates and reduces inflammation, brings numbness
and desensitizes, purgative, increases urination and helps remove
excess water, salt, toxins and fat from the body, counters effects
of intoxicants, checks growth of cancer cells, cure
spasm, helps cure hydrophobia.
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Black
Pepper Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
prevents age-related ailments?? I wish!!
helps remove toxins from body,
Aids digestion, increases perspiration and helps remove gases from
intestines and does not let them form, acts as a purgative, cures
spasm, helps cure arthritis and rheumatism by removing uric acid
and other toxins, inhibits Bacterial growth, and neutralizes free
radicals.
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Buchu
Essential Oil - A highly
toxic oil not for internal use.
Claimed Health Benefits:
increases urination & removal of toxins,
Protects against septic,?? tones up
body.
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Cajuput
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
kills worms,
takes care of skin, reduces fever,
tones up organic systems,
removes gases and does not let them
form, stimulates secretions and nerves, increases perspiration,
gives relief from obstructed menses and makes them regular.
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Calamus
Essential Oil - Oil banned
by most authorities as a possible carcinogen.
Claimed Properties: anti
biotic,
Claimed Health Benefits:
Treats rheumatism & arthritis,
relaxes spasm, inhibits microbial growth, good for brain & boosts
memory, increases blood & lymph circulation, cures nervous disorders,
stimulates functions, induce sleep.
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Camomile
Essential Oil - Which one
as the properties are very different?
Claimed Properties: anti
biotic vermifuge,
Claimed Health Benefits:
kills worms,
cures neuralgic pain by reducing swelling
in the vessels, soothes inflammation due to fever, removes gases,
promotes discharge of bile, opens up obstructed menses and regularises
them, cures pain, reduces fever, good for liver, sedates inflammation
and hyper-reactions, restores health of nervous system, aids digestion,
tones up all aspects of health, cures spasm, increases perspiration,
improves functioning of stomach, soothes inflammation, fights infections.
All the traditional use of the herbal medicine,
NOT the essential oil.
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Camphor
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
Stimulates discharges and other systems,
cures spasm, protects wounds from infections,
opens up congestion,
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Caraway
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
kills worms,
checks haemorrhage,
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Increases milk in the breasts, curbs histamin
to fight cough, good for heart, cures spasm and cramps, removes
gases, promotes digestion, maintains stomach health, fights infections,
increases urination and helps remove toxins from body, makes menstruations
regular and clear, cures coughs, increases appetite, contracts gums
and muscles (hogwash!!),
kills insects, stimulates secretions and other functions,
tones up health.
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Cardamom
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: restores
body from adverse effects of chemotherapy, fights
nausea, increases libido, contracts
gums, muscles, They
got to be kidding!!! and
checks haemorrhage, promotes
digestion, maintains stomach health, stimulates secretions and other
functions, increases urination and thereby removes extra salt, bile,
water, toxins and fat from the body.
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Carrot
seed Essential Oil
Claimed Properties: anti
carcinogenic, vermifuge
Claimed Health Benefits:
Protects wounds from septic, fights infections,
removes toxins from body, neutralises free radicals and reverses
effects of oxidation, checks
growth of cancer cells, removes
gases and does not let them form, purifies blood by removing toxins,
increases urination, opens and regularises menses, stimulates secretions
and other functions, promotes generation
of new cells and growth, tones up health, kills worms.
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Cassia
Essential Oil
Claimed Properties: Anti
diarrhoea,HERB NOT OIL!!!! astringent,
anti viral, carminative, circulatory, emenagogue,
Claimed Health Benefits: Stops
loose motions, reduces milk flow, tightens
gums & muscles and helps stop hair fall & haemorrhage, fights
viral infections, removes gases, improves blood & lymphatic
circulation, opens obstructed menstruations, reduces fever, stimulates
functions.
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Catnip
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: Fights
spasm, removes gases, promotes sweating, opens obstructed menses
and regularises them, strengthens nervous system, maintains stomach
health, stimulates systems functioning in the body, contracts gums,
muscles and skin and checks haemorrhage
by contracting blood vessels.
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Cedarwood
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
fights spasm, tones up health, cause contractions in gums, muscles,
tissues, skin and blood vessels and prevents
haemorrhage, promotes urination and removal of toxins,
water, salt and fat from body, promotes menstruations,
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Cinnamon
Essential Oil As no indications
of which cinnamon oil, this is very dangerous!
Claimed Properties: astringent,
anti clotting,
Claimed Health Benefits: blood
impurity, blood circulation, birth
control, breastfeeding,
heart disorders, diabetes, colon cancer,
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Citronella
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: sedates
inflammations, drives away body odour,
promotes perspiration, increases urination
& removal of toxins, reduces fever, good
for stomach, stimulates functions, tones up body, kills
worms.
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Clary
Sage Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: removes
gases, improves digestion, opens obstructed menstruations,
lowers blood pressure, maintains
good health of stomach, restores health of
uterus.
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Clove
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
skin care, earache,
blood circulation, blood purification, diabetes,
cholera, sty
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Coriander
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: removes
gas, purifies blood, reduces fat
by breaking it down by hydrolysis,
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Cumin
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: removes
gas from intestine, promotes digestion, increases urination,
protects wounds against septic,
removes toxins from blood,
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Cypress
Essential Oil
Claimed Properties: Astringent,
diuretic, haemostatic, hepatic, styptic,
vasoconstrictor,.
Claimed Health Benefits: and
contracts muscles, increases urination, stops
haemorrage by contracting blood vessels due to astringency,
Cypress oil is NOT an astringent, the herbal
lotion is.
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Dill Essential
Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: prohibits
infections, increases secretion of milk, sedates hypersensitivity
increases perspiration.
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Eucalyptus
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: diabetes,
fever,
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Fennel
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: clears
spasm, increases appetite, removes gases and does not let them form,
purifies blood, increases urination, promotes menstruations,
increases milk secretion, helps clear bowels
and constipation, stimulates systems, good for stomach's health,
good for spleen, tones up health, kills
worms.
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Frankincense
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: induces
contractions in gums, muscles and blood vessels, keeps
cells healthy and promotes their generation, promotes
digestion, increases urination, promotes menstruations, tones
up body, ensures good health of uterus,
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Galbanum
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
increases blood & lymph circulation, removes
toxins, eliminates parasites,
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Geranium
Essential Oil
Claimed Properties: Astringent,
haemostatic, cicatrisant, cytophylactic, diuretic, styptic, vermifuge,
Claimed Health Benefits:
Induces contractions in gums, muscles, skin and blood vessels and
stops haemorrhage, heals scars and
after marks, promotes growth of cells, increases urination,
kills intestinal other worms,
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Grapefruit
Essential Oil
Claimed Properties: Diuretic,
lymphatic, tonic
Claimed Health Benefits: Increases
urination, fights infections, stimulates functions, protects
wounds from being septic, promotes
removal of toxins, tones up health.
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Helicrysum
Essential Oil
Claimed Properties: anti
coagulant, anti allergenic, anti haematoma,
cholagogue, hepatic, diuretic, splenic, cytophylactic.
Claimed Health Benefits:
maintains fluidity of blood, fights allergies, dissolves
and clears blood clots, reduces
inflammation due to fever, reduces
fever, promotes proper bile discharge into stomach, makes skin smooth
and young, good for liver, promotes urination, good for spleen,
promotes generation of new cells and cell health.
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Hyssop
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: Induces
contractions in gums, muscles, skin and blood vessels, removes
gas, promotes digestion, increases
urination, promotes menstruations, increases
blood pressure, promotes sweating,
tones up body, reduces fever, kills worms,
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Jasmine
Essential Oil - rare, it's
usually an absolute.
Claimed Health Benefits:
increases breast milk, it
does not, in fact it does the reverse. good
for uterine health.
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Juniper
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: purifies
blood, makes gums stronger and stops
haemorrhage
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Lavender
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: urine
flow, blood circulation, indigestion,
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Lemon
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: strengthens
gums, induce firmness in muscles,
stops haemorrhage, cures
fever, heals damages, tones body.
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Lemongrass
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: reduces
high fever, strengthens gums and hair and
stops haemorrhage, promotes urination,
reduces fever, increases milk,
tones up whole body.
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Lime Essential
Oil
Claimed Properties: anti
viral, haemostatic,
Claimed Health Benefits: Protects
wounds from being septic, protection against viral infection,
reduces fever,
stops haemorrhage, restores health
and heals wears and tears, tonic for health.
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Mandarin
Essential Oil
Claimed Properties: circulatory,
cytophylactic, depurative, digestive, hepatic, stomachic and tonic.
Claimed Health Benefits: increases
blood & lymph circulation, promotes growth & regeneration
of cells, purifies blood, facilitates digestion, good for liver,
good for stomach, tones up body.
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Manuka
Essential Oil
Claimed Properties: anti
histaminic, anti allergenic. cicatrisant, cytophylactic,
Claimed Health Benefits:
counters venom, checks production
of histamin & cures allergic symptoms, promotes growth &
regeneration of cells
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Marjoram
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
enhances libido, inhibits viral growth,
lowers blood pressure, widens
and relaxes blood vessels, heals wounds.
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Melissa
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: opens
blocked menses, good for stomach, removes
gas, increases perspiration & removes toxins, reduces fever,
lowers blood pressure, boosts health and immunity.
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Mugwort
Essential Oil
Claimed Properties:
Anti epileptic
Claimed Health Benefits:
Pacifies epileptic & hysteric feats, facilitates
digestion, increases urination & removal of toxins, maintains
uterine health, kills worms.
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Mullein
Essential Oil - No such
essential oil!
Claimed Health Benefits: Pain
relief, sedates inflammations, protects against septic, fights infections,
increases urination & removal of toxins, expells phlegm &
catarrh, reduces fever, relaxes body & mind, brings sleep.
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Mustard
Essential Oil - No definition of
which type and one is very dangerous.
Claimed Health Benefits:
Stimulates discharges and other systems,
causes irritations, increases appetite, inhibits Bacterial growth
and fungal growth, keeps insects away, boosts hair growth and stops
hair loss, warming, increases perspiration, stimulates circulation
and helps cure rheumatism, boosts health and immunity.
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Myrrh
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: tightens
gums and muscles and stops haemorrhage,
stimulates discharges and systems, removes
gases, good for stomach, promotes sweating,
improves circulation and protects from rheumatism
& arthritis,
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Myrtle
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: tightens
gums and muscles and stops
haemorrhage,
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Neroli
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: gives
relief from gases, tones up body functions.
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Niaouli
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: kills
worms
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Nutmeg
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits: counters
aging, kills parasites & worms,
good for heart, clears bowels, stops
prostrate enlargement, tones
up body.
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Oakmoss
Essential Oil - usually
an absolute, not an oil.
Claimed Properties:
Anti septic, demulcent, expectorant and restorative.
Claimed Health
Benefits: Protects against septic, soothing, expells
phlegm & catarrh, heals damages & restores health. NOTE:
This is a perfume trade extract and it has no history of medicinal
use.
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Orange
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
Soothes inflammations, gives relief
from gas, increases urination and removes toxins, tones up health
& immune system, increases discharges & secretions from
glands
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Oregano
Essential Oil - Which one
out of many?
Claimed Properties:
Anti viral, anti parasitic, anti allergenic
Claimed Health Benefits:
Inhibits viral,
and parasitic infections, heals damages
done by oxidation, soothes inflammations-NOTE
depending on which oil, it can be VERY inflammatory,
promotes digestion, opens up obstructed menstruations, helps cure
allergy.
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Palma
Rosa Essential Oil
Claimed Properties:
anti viral, cytophylactic, digestive, febrifuge and hydrating
Claimed Health Benefits:
inhibits virall growth, promotes growth &
regeneration of cells, facilitates digestion, reduces fever, maintains
moisture balance-NOTE: no essential
oil can do that.
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Parsley
Essential Oil - which one?
Claimed Properties:
astringent, carminative, circulatory, detoxifier,
digestive, diuretic, depurative, emenagogue, febrifuge, hypotensive,
laxative, stimulant, stomachic and uterine.
Claimed Health Benefits:
tightens gums & muscles
haemorrhage, removes
gases, improves circulation of blood & lymph, removes toxins,
facilitates digestion, increases urination & removal of toxins,
purifies blood, opens obstructed menstruations, reduces fever, reduces
blood pressure, clears bowels, stimulates
functions, good for stomach, restores uterine health.
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Patchouli
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
soothes inflammation resulting from high fever,
tightens gums, muscles and
stops haemorrhage, increases urination
and removes toxins, cures fever, tones up body functions.
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Pennyroyal
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
tightens gums & muscles and helps stop
hair fall & haemorrhage,
purifies blood, facilitates digestion, opens
obstructed menstruations & makes them regular, kills & repells
insects, good for stomachic.
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Peppermint
Essential Oil
Claimed Properties:
astringent, vasoconstrictor and
vermifuge
Claimed Health Benefits:
reduces discharges, strengthens
gums, induce firmness in muscles,
stops haemorrhage, removes
gas,promotes bile discharge, reduces fever, good for liver, good
for stomach, promotes perspiration, contracts
blood vessels, kills worms.
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Pimento
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
fights aging, I wish!!
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Pine Essential
Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
increases metabolism
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Ravensara
Essential Oil
Claimed Properties:
anti allergenic, anti viral, aphrodisiac,
diuretic,
Claimed Health Benefits:
cures allergies, inhibits viral, growth, enhances
libido, increases urination & removal of toxins,
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Rose Essential
Oil
Claimed Properties:
anti viral, astringent,
cholagogue, emenagogue, haemostatic,
hepatic, laxative, nervine, stomachic, uterine
Claimed Health Benefits:
soothes inflammation due to fever,
fights viral infections, cures
sexual disorders, tightens gums, muscles
and stops haemorrhage, purifies blood,
opens up obstructed menses, stops haemorrhage, boosts liver health,
cures constipation, good for stomach,
good for uterine health.
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Rosewood
Essential Oil - see other
articles on www.aromamedical.com
Claimed Health Benefits:
Reduces pain, enhances libido and promotes
arousal, good for brain stimulates
discharges
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Rue Essential
Oil - A highly dangerous
oils that can cause severe skin damage.
Claimed Properties:
Antidote to poison,
anti epileptic
Claimed Health Benefits:
Neutralizes effects of poison, improves circulation
& removal of uric acid, promotes digestion, sedates
epileptic and hysteric attacks and helps cure them.
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Sage Essential
Oil
Claimed Properties:
anti oxidant, anti inflammatory, anti spasmodic,
cholagogue and choleretic, digestive, emenagogue, febrifuge, laxative,
Claimed Health Benefits:
Inhibits viral, parasitic
infections, heals damages done by oxidation,
soothes inflammations, clears spasm, increases production of bile,
promotes digestion, opens up obstructed menstruations, reduces fever,
helps clear bowels, stimulates discharges and functions.
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Sandalwood
Essential Oil
Claimed Properties:
anti inflammatory, anti phlogistic, astringent,
cicatrisant, carminative, diuretic, emollient, hypotensive, memory
booster,
Claimed Health Benefits:
soothes inflammations due to fever and otherwise,
clears spasm, tightens gums & muscles
and helps stop hair fall & haemorrhage,
gives relief from gas, increases urination, increases
memory, boosts health & immunity.
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Spearmint
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
good for brain, opens up obstructed menses, restores
health and heals wears and tears, stimulates discharges & functions.
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Spikenard
Essential Oil
Claimed Properties:
anti inflammatory, laxative, and uterine
Claimed Health Benefits:
sedates inflammations, clears bowels, sedates
inflammations restores uterine health.
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Tagetes
Essential Oil - A probable
photo sensitiser
Claimed Properties:
Anti biotic, anti parasitic,
Claimed Health Benefits:
Inhibits parasitic growth,
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Tangerine
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
Protects against septic, relaxes spasm, promotes
growth & regeneration of cells,
purifies blood, sedates inflammations & nervous afflictions,
good for stomach, tones up body.
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Tansy
Essential Oil - no mention
of which type some of which are highly toxic.
Claimed Health Benefits:
viral growth, checks
production of histamin & gives relief from allergic symptoms,
reduces fever, stimulates production
of hormones, kills worms.
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Tarragon
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
improves circulation of blood & lymph, facilitates
digestion,opens obstructed menstruations & makes them regular,
stimulates functions, kills worms.
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Tea Tree
Essential Oil
Claimed Properties:
anti viral,
Claimed Health Benefits:
Inhibits viral & infections, promotes
absorption of nutrients, stimulates
functions & discharges, promotes sweating.
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Thuja
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
tightens gums & muscles &
haemorrhage, increases urination &
removal of toxins, opens obstructed menstruations & makes them
regular, tones up body, kills
worms.
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Thyme
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
gives relief from rheumatism by removing toxins
good for heart's health,
gives relief from gas, heals scars & after marks, increases
urination, makes menstruations regular,
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Tuberose
Essential Oil - No such
thing, it is an absolute.
NOTE: This is a perfume trade extract
and it has no history of medicinal use.
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Vanilla
Essential Oil - No such
thing, it is an absolute.
Claimed Properties:
Anti oxidant, anti
carcinogenic,
Claimed Health Benefits:
Neutralizes effects of free radicals &
oxidants and repairs damages due to oxidation, inhibits
growth of cancerous cells, reduces
fever,
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Vetiver
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
Sedates inflammations, tones
up body,
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Wintergreen
Essential Oil - Highly toxic
oil, not a distilled natural oil.
Claimed Health Benefits:
tightens gums & muscles
and helps stop haemorrhage,
removes gases, increases urination &
removal of toxins, opens obstructed menstruations & makes them
regular, stimulates functions.
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Wormwood
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
Kills worms & larva, promotes
secretion of bile and other discharges, facilitates
digestion, opens obstructed menstruations & makes them regular,
reduces fever, intoxicating,
tones up body.
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Yarrow
Essential Oil
Claimed Health Benefits:
Soothes inflammations, improves circulation
& removes uric acid and gives relief from rheumatism,
tightens gums & muscles and stops
haemorrhage, gives relief from
gas, increases perspiration, promotes
digestion, lowers blood pressure,
good for stomach, tones up health & immunity.
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Summary:
For those who rely on the Internet for information on essential oils,
this is a great example of what you get. The same kind of dangerous junk
is also taught by some aromatherapy teachers so beware.
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