For perinatal clients and others, we use this solar oil especially for it’s spiritually protective, mood stabilizing and aura clearing effects especially when there is negativity or dark or alcohol energies a mother has to deal with, i.e. for reducing tamasic influences. That’s what I usually use it for with clients.
Some doulas find mamas sometimes love to inhale a drop or two through a handkerchief while in labor to potentate their process. I am rarely doing birth doula work, and next time I’m called will include this option along with a few favorite others. For mamas with traumas, abuse, and as above in their life history unresolved, it may really hold her hand to slip through the layers of awareness into mind-body coordination in the present.
What a gift frankincense gives us. Imagine the soul characteristics which develop growing in the Omani desert which is so hot scorching dry in day, so little water, alone; snakes like to live in and protect their frankincense tree actually. “He” has cultivated higher vibration stability in mind, body, and has to imbibe and integrate with spirit’s quiet witness, steady strength and patience to survive.
His manner as you receive him is steady, gently penetrating presence, a little persistent but self contained like the resin he creates. He is kind and warming but not hot or coarse, in addition to offering many specific medicinal effects – with pain, colds and flu symptoms, depression, phlegm, inflammation, circulation, tumors, cell rejuvenation, joint issues, and much more (among many of the essential oils with these qualities).
Sometimes if our inner feminine is really damaged, he may seem too masculine an influence to use alone, or at that time, but the protections it affords often help even fragile postpartum mamas and babies. In ancient times, newborn princes were rubbed all over with Frankincense oil! No wonder the Christ child was given Frankincense. Was it an essential oil, or the resin as believed? Good possibility it was an essential oil.
Frankincense, Myrrh and “Gold” (Balsam Fir) were found to have been distilled near Jerusalem. This variety of Fir is amazing for mood, aches and pains in all the tissues and much more !
The varieties Frankincense Seratta and Frankincense Sacra have many well researched medicinal effects. It is well researched for anti-cancer effects. Yes, it is also documented anti-inflammatory, stimulating to the immune system. anti-cough, anti-arthritic, anti-rheumatic, helps with bursitis and other concerns.
Here is a brief on the anti-cancer results with a little girl I believe you will appreciate reading –
Independent Japanese researcher reports on 3 year old client (forgive my rough draft notes from his talk):
….little girl 3 years old stage 4 renal cell carcinoma. Missing 1 kidney, the cancer came back in January (9 months before hearing this talk). Given chemo drugs 3 months. Then started 4th chemo drug. The research doctor happened to be introduced to this client . The mom would do anything (dad not willing to pay for natural therapy). So he provided free, the frankincense et al from his pocket. Gave 2 weeks dose of the formula, fed ex-ed it to them overnight….. started low dose. (In Arabia Dr. Sohel always starts high dose. In this country starts 50% 1 week then 75% of max dose etc).
4-5 weeks later after another cat scan, mom called. All metastecized tumor reduced in size including those in bone. After their calculation, all tumors size down about 25% total reduction in 5 weeks. //they promised full medical images and records in exchange.
Conversation with oncologist. (Dad really wanted him to see what it did, how it worked, and if any interactions with the chemo drug she was taken). This research doc emailed back based on results they have published. More than 300 diff chem compounds in Frank oil. 250 degree boiling temp. They took it to 300 and 350 degrees, finding many more. Too many compounds with so little knowledge about some. So an MD cannot understand the interaction of the eo with chemo drug. No way to figure it out.
The oncologist said he was not responsible to monitor the efficacy of the voodoo oil. He didn’t believe it and would never try it. But the family is very happy! They are still using the frankincense therapy on remaining tumors. Before Frankincense, although doing chemo, this girl couldn’t sit up for 5 minutes because of bone tumor. 2 weeks into frankincense, could ride a small roller coaster and went horse back riding and swimming!
As of September, this case is still unfolding. Researcher has all the blood work from this girl. Before frankincense therapy, had 6 items below or higher than normal, 3 weeks later, only 3 out of range.
This is just one of many many cases over the years in Dr. Young’s experience, and my own personal experience with two kinds of cancer for myself. Ok, I am not in position to be treating disease, so cannot give you other personal case studies. Over the years, from babies to elders I’ve heard direct reports of the value however, and can’t keep my mouth shut about sharing a few reports.
QUALITY ISSUES
Apparently there is controversy circulating about what is quality or adulterated or good medicine frankincense essential oil. It is easy to understand how “experts” in new companies or practitioners can use their novice level education to get in trouble, and use the net to circulate fallacy very quickly, hence this educational note/repost. Many in the industry are not aware that Frankincense are difficult to measure with standard gas chromatography due to their high resinous flash points, requiring special equipment, and sometimes data is misinterpreted as a result. The art of GC testing can be easily undertrained, as we have learned from a Denver Lab’s reports on multiple occasions.
Notably – Contrary to some essential oil marketing such as the DoTerra company’s, the variety Frankincense Frereana is only grown in Somalia. Frankincense Frereana is heavily imported to Oman. Frereana is used there to chew and whiten teeth, and researchers find little key medicinal constituents. Oman is the heart and fame of Frankincense exportation since Biblical times, and apparently the Omani have pulled the wool over Dr. David Hill’s eyes about the source and value of what they have sold DoTerra. I had the opportunity to hear their now resigned researcher of some time speak in September. He has quit working with them, because the F. Freanna oil they gave him did not give any of the amazing results previously found in the F. Serratta from Young Living, and he was never paid for his huge investment of time and energy.
I hope you can appreciate a dedication to quality sourcing of essential oils. It is difficult situation that they are not well regulated and people can say and believe in their hearts all kinds of things which may or may not be substantiated. Many managers never go to the farm, see how grown, distilled, known source (all of these things take years to really discern and produce best quality). Many companies combine oils of same name from multiple unknown source.
OIL SOURCES
I choose to work with Young Living oils, knowing the company founder is in science, client care and plant /essential oils experience, to the level of less than a handful in the world, about quality. To order they give credit to whomever refers you. If you would like to purchase wholesale, the minimum annual purchase is $50 plus a one time wholesaler’s kit of your choice, starting at $40. You are not required to sell actually, but can earn commissions.
Dr. Gary Young knows every stage of production from seed to seal from years of training with world experts, experience and testing. Essential oils can be potent, amazing and very safe supports for mothers, newborns, and their families properly used, and most of the essential oils sold on the planet are adulterated or not grown on the planet, creating much more to talk about with quality issues.
CLASSES
Our Essential Oils (More than) Basics 2 hour class is now available for your anytime listening.
Happy Oiling!
Ysha Bhu