Essential oils

There seems to be an increasing market for these kinds of oils to reduce pain. Some seem to think it's snake oil and others swear by it. It'll be interesting to see where this goes. I guess it's probably not new, but the popularity seems to be increasing.
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I have tried some of the oils. Nothing but snake oil to me. Didn't do anything for my pain at all. But some people are making a lot of money selling it. I think it is just another fad IMHO

I use them. Citrus and lavender oils. Mix with warm water and a bit of dish soap and use a spray bottle. Once a week hit the walls around my bunk at fish camp and no worries about spiders crawling across my face in the middle of the night. Smells good too.

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You Da Man Jarl !!!

My woman is a big user of essential oils. She firmly believes they help with her fibromyalgia. She has mixed some up for me at various times, lets say you have to be a believer. If she thinks they help her, thsts all thst matters.

same here.

I'd complain about the cost; but I buy fox pee, so....

I like to take a multi-pronged approach to pain reduction such as reducing inflammatory foods such as wheat and other grains in my diet. I wouldn't rely on essential oils by themselves and then say they don't work. I love essential oils. Some organic insecticides are made with essential oils without a carrier oil.

My wife is hooked on peppermint oil. She has smelled like a candy cane ever since.

I might have to try this formula.

There is something to be said about placebo effect. I think though if any certain odor make a person more comfortable or relaxed. Why then would that not be considered relieving pain? My last hospital stay I was offered aroma therapy thing for the room. Don't care for the lavender and I couldn't get them to pop a sac on a skunk for me.

Mac

I use a fair amount for various things.

The peppermint seems to work fairly well to discourage mice.

I also use about a half dozen others as an ingredient in my beeswax hand lotions. I don't know if it's the beeswax or oils, but, they sure seem to work well to heal up chapped hands. The wife also uses the stuff and claims it eases the pain in her "trigger finger".

Whether a cure or not, I like the aroma, and will continue to use it.

the wife was just looking into Essential oils and defusers and such.

then she got to all these warnings about how they are bad for pets.

Well we unfortunately have to many cats and if the essential oils could promise to reduce cat lives to say 5 years I would be on board but my wife and daughters would not and that just sounds like a vet bill I don't want to pay.

however I would not want my dogs to get caught in the crossfire and they already don't live long enough my German Shepard is already geriatric you know the end is near when the Vet starts preparing you for the inevitable , never spent so much time in a vet appointment ever before but when your GSD is about to go beyond the age chart.

anyway , there were other warnings like if you have birds in the house do not use an essential oil defuser , Wait , we send a canary into a mine to tell us if the air will kill us , and if we use this stuff the air will kill the canary , but be cause deadly air smells good it is good for us.

I don't doubt some of these oils have good properties , I like orange and cloves in my home made soap , a little of this or that may be good but putting the stuff in the air I wonder about.

remember when there were doctor recommended/preferred cigarettes

but for now I am going to stick to a Pot of soup on the stove aroma therapy .

I think for some people a smell can be calming , could pleasant music do the same for the right person it could.

if you can calm down blood pressure goes down , sleep increases and sleep is what we really need our bodies know how to do so much for healing while we sleep.

and if your calm your less irritable and less likely to be short with the nurses.

maybe some day they will be able to make a hospital room that feels like the woods on a crisp October morning where the air is cool but the sun is warm with a gentle breeze the sounds of the woods coming alive at dawn.

CBD oil is really helping my wife with insomnia. Has worked for her sister too.

My wife uses them even has the defusers. She users them for a bunch of things including insect control. Most I can't stand as they are too strong of a smell. One time my wife put one of the oils on me for my sinus infecton, in about 0.02 seconds and out came my lunch or dinner.

Lol white marlin. Fox pee is much cheaper then essential oils.

: ) Tons of spiders in that cabin and I HATE spiders.

Lavender can help you sleep. And the peppermint will get rid of a headache.

Mike

Just leave an old dead fish across the cabin to entertain them at night.


What I hate is when a vole runs across my sleeping bag at night. They are so noisy !!

The bears would make us forget all about voles and spiders.

See ???? There's always a silver lining

LOL, That was SUPERB!!!

I have heard you mix the citrus and vinegar in a spray bottle and it keeps tick away. They say spray on your cloths and works very well. Anyone ever use it for ticks??

The essential oils I have are just concentrated pure oils distilled from the plant sources. I love the smell of cedar and pine and I buy both of those and dilute them with a neutral base and use them as air fresheners instead of the garbage chemicals you can buy in a can. I smell those pine needles or cedar and I go to my happy place. I cannot imagine that not helping my overall state if I was stuck in a hospital room.

I do like lavender and put a few drops of that in a bath now and then too!

If you need peppermint, lemon, or orange oils, just go to the supermarket and pay $1.99 for a small bottle of extract. It's not quite as pure, so you have to use a little more, but it's about 10% of the price on a concentration basis.

That's always been my issue with essential oils. It's not that the fundamental ingredients don't have a good use, it's that you pay top dollar for absolute purity, then the first thing you do in most cases is dilute it yourself.

Lavender and tea tree oil cause mammary growth in both women and men. I think normal men should avoid lavender and tea tree oil.

Keith

I love CBD oil. Does she use a certain brand?

Don't rub it on your tatas then.

Mike

I work with a lady that is big into the essential oils. She uses them and sells them and thinks they are the best thing ever. She told me yesterday she had a sprained ankle and that if she was at home with a little oregano and some oil, 5 minutes of rest and she would be fine. She takes vinegar baths all the time and comes to work smelling of all kinds of oils. She says it's good for everything. Menapause, you name it. I think she's a wack job most days.

Yes, and that is important because there are some cheap Chinese and european CBD oils out there and they don't work! Or they perform poorly.

I buy directly from a licensed farmer who does his own CO2 processing so it is pure CBD.

If anybody wants it I can get it for you. A half oz bottle with dropper costs $35 (Less than what I charge for civet juice).

My wife is into it now, I don't see much harm. But if I'm in the hospital, just bring me a bottle of Lenon's muskrat lure or just muskrat glands. Or Cronk's musky musk. Even Milligan's cat man do would take me to my happy place, but probably would tick off the people in the next room.