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NaturalNews.com
Originally published March 24, 2008
Raise Your Immunity Frequency With Essential Oils to Beat the
Common Cold
by Teya Skae (see
all articles by this author)
(NaturalNews) The humble cold is one of the most common illnesses, leading
to more doctor visits and absences from school and the workforce than any
other illness every year. So what causes you to catch colds? Technically you
do not "catch" colds but, rather, become infected with a cold/flu bacteria
or virus.
Whether you come down with a cold is due to the fact of whether your immune
system is working at its best to ward off invaders. When we function at our
optimal level, our immune system – which protects us from invading bacteria and
other micro-organisms – can cope. However, when we are stressed our immune
system is greatly challenged
and that is when we spiral downwards because our healthy body frequency
range is lowered, allowing the invading microbes to
take over our system.
What is meant by Healthy Frequency Range?
Frequency is a measurable rate of electrical energy that is constant between
any two points. Every living thing has a frequency, including our brain and
our bodies. Electrical frequency is measured in hertz (Hz), kilohertz (kHz),
and megahertz (MHz). The average frequency of a healthy human
body is between 62 - 78 Hz.
How is all of this known?
In 1992, Bruce Tainio of Tainio Technology, a division of Eastern Washington
State University, developed new equipment to measure electrical frequency in
humans and foods. This equipment was used in a research study at Johns
Hopkins University to determine the relationships between frequency and
diseases. Tainio found the average frequency of a human body is between 62 -
78 Hz, the upper body being between 70 - 78 Hz and the lower from 62 - 70Hz.
Further support for these findings is given by Dr. Robert O. Becker M.D. in
his book, The Body Electric,
who also explains that a person's health can be determined by the frequency
of the person's body.
Another doctor and scientist, whose research has been buried for some time
but has managed to resurface due to the work of avid supporters, is Dr.
Royal Raymond Rife M.D. who developed a frequency generator in the late
1920's. In brief, Rife successfully treated 1,000 patients diagnosed with
incurable cancer in
the 1930's. He was honoured with 14 awards and an honorary doctorate. After
the unsuccessful attempt by pharmaceutical
companies to buy out his
research and equipment, his office was ransacked, his research paperwork was
stolen and the machine that healed all those 1,000 "incurable" cancer
patients was destroyed.
In 1934, before this destruction occurred, the University of Southern
California appointed a Special Medical Research Committee to bring terminal
cancer patients from Pasadena County Hospital to Rife's San Diego Laboratory
and clinic for treatment. The team included doctors and
pathologists assigned to examine the patients - if still alive - in 90 days.
After the 90 days of treatment, the Committee concluded that 86.5% of the
patients had been completely cured. The treatment was then adjusted and the
remaining 13.5% of the patients also responded within the next four weeks.
The total recovery rate using Rife's technology was 100%, (http://www.rife.org)
.
What Rife had developed was a 100% effective cure for many forms of cancer.
So why do we not know about this and why are there so many cancer
research foundations in
existence? Put simply, it is due to the economic motives of the orthodox
medical community, which relies on funding for cancer research - such
funding often coming from pharmaceutical companies - and whose fortunes
would be damaged if a cure for cancer was found. (That is, it's OK to search
for a cure but not really find one!)
"In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was
accomplished by moving energy." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Laureate in
Medicine (1937)
What Rife proved is that every health disorder has a frequency, which in
turn responds (resonates) to a specific (optimal) frequency for its
dissolving/healing in the body. People who maintain their optimal frequency,
at least of their immune system, would prevent development of symptoms and
illnesses associated with the
common cold. Of course, in practise this does not work for most of us
because, being human, we experience stress and emotional challenges on a
daily basis, which lower our body's frequency. Hence, we need to raise our
body frequency regularly/daily with the right substances that are compatible
at the cellular and energetic level of our being, rather than wait until our
body frequency has dropped so low that it becomes a friendly host for
microscopic invaders.
How can this be proven?
According to a report (Epidemiology, May 2001; 11:345-349), psychological
stress - particularly the chronic type that may accompany a personality with
a negative outlook - is a risk factor for contracting colds.
An optimistic outlook and outgoing personality seemed to protect
individuals, researchers found.
The findings indicate that high levels of psychological stress are closely
associated with contracting the common
cold. While the common cold is rarely a serious health hazard, it is
responsible for about 30 million days of lost work in the U.S. alone each
year.
To investigate whether stress increased the likelihood of developing a cold,
the researchers surveyed more than 1,100 Spanish university staff and
students at regular intervals over a one year period. The study focused on
different types of stress, including stress from life events, perceived
stress, having a generally negative outlook, anxious or compulsive
personality, compared with having a positive outlook/attitude to life.
Individuals with a negative outlook were at greatest risk of developing
colds - regardless of their intake of vitamin C and zinc or their smoking
and drinking habits.
The next highest-risk individuals were those who believed that they were
under stress. These people were nearly three times as likely to develop a
cold, according to the report.
Why should Antibiotics be avoided?
Colds can be contracted as the result of contact with more than 200
different viruses. However, among all of the cold viruses, the rhinovirus
and the coronavirus cause the majority of colds. Each time you have a cold,
it is caused by a distinct virus - e.g. adenovirus, rhinovirus,
parainfluenza virus, and coronavirus. Viruses are much smaller than
bacteria. They are tiny clusters of genetic material surrounded by a protein
'wrapper'.
Medical science currently does not have any drugs that can kill these
viruses. Antibiotics, including penicillin, do not have any effect on
viruses. They are only used to treat secondary bacterial infections that
can further complicate the effects of a cold.
How Are Colds Actually Contracted?
The most common source of infection is not from coughing or sneezing, or
walking barefoot in the rain, but from hand-to-hand contact. That is why,
when you have a cold, washing your hands frequently is very important. The
likelihood of contracting the cold virus increases, however, if one is
overtired and physically exhausted.
Most uncomplicated colds last eight to nine days; about 25% last two weeks;
and 5-10% last three weeks.
As long as one's temperature remains below 38.8 degrees Celsius, there is no
need to lower it. Cold viruses do not reproduce at higher body temperatures.
In fact, a slight fever should help us get rid of the virus quicker and feel
better much sooner. It is our body's own way of ridding itself of toxins.
Why are Aspirin and Tylenol counterproductive?
A study (J Infect Dis, Dec 1990; 162(6):1277-82) showed that people who take aspirin and
Tylenol (acetaminophen) suppress their body's ability to produce antibodies
that destroy the cold virus. This actually causes the body to take longer to
fight the cold and it accounts for any secondary infections and post-nasal
drip.
What Can Be Done to Prevent Getting the Common Cold?
While orthodox medicine does not have the answer for colds and 'flu', nature does
- it comes in the form of pure organic unadulterated Therapeutic Essential
Oils. Why? Because they are made up of very high frequency molecules
(ranging from 52MHz to 320MHz) and contain nature's wisdom and power to
raise the body's frequency and to assist our immune system in fighting viral
invasions.
For greater clarity, organic Therapeutic Essential Oils are not the same as
everyday aromatherapy oils,
which are produced for fragrance and other purposes.
We now know that, in order to prevent colds, we need our immune system to be
working in top gear and our overall body frequency to be in its optimal
range. Our optimal range of body frequency can be lowered by negative
thoughts/emotions, stress, blood chemistry imbalance, and ingested
chemicals, which allow us to contract colds and viruses in the first place.
Research has found that the high frequency of essential
oils creates an environment
where bacteria, fungi and viruses cannot survive. Essential oils provide a
high frequency environment for the body.
Researchers have found that some essential oils - oregano, thyme and
rosewood oils, in particular - create an autolytic (destruction of cells and
tissues by enzymes produced by the cells, themselves) reaction in organisms,
including streptococcuspneumonia.
Dr. Diane Horne of Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, told the 98th
general assembly of the American Society of Microbiology about the
serendipitous discovery of the impact of essential oils on cells such as
streptococcus pneumonia (bacteria that causes a very serious type of
pneumonia in children with sickle cell disease).
When Dr. Horne's co-researcher was spraying aromatic oils in the laboratory,
Dr. Horne looked at the streptococcus pneumonia bacteria that she was
preparing for another experiment and noticed that its cells were literally
falling apart. Dr. Horne and co-worker Sue Chao, of the Young Living
Essential Oils Company of Payton, Utah, tested the autolyzing properties of
74 essential oils and discovered that the best results occurred with
oregano, thyme and rosewood and that intermediate inhibition of the
pathogens was achieved with cinnamon oil
and clove oil. Dr. Horne pointed out that the oils also proved to be a
powerful remedy against E. coli (a bacterium and virus in one) and several
species of fungi.
What these tests revealed is that essential oils, such as oregano, clove,
cinnamon, rosewood and rosemary,
are so powerful that viruses and bacteria cannot survive in their presence.
That is, the viruses and bacteria are destroyed when they come into contact
with these therapeutic essential oils.
Dr. Horne and the Young Living Essential Oils company are not the only ones
who now use therapeutic essential oils for destroying viruses and bacteria.
Up until a decade ago, France was the forerunner of medical aromatherapy,
where essential oils are encapsulated and prescribed to be taken orally or
as suppositories by the patient.
French aromatherapy doctors employ the aromatogram, where a sample is taken
from the infected area of the patient, cultivated in a laboratory, and then
subjected to various essential oils to find the most effective oil to treat
the infection for the specific patient.
They have found that different oil combinations work better when the oil
combination is specifically blended for a patient. Even if various patients
suffer from the same strain of bacteria, some oils seem to work better on
certain people than on others.
While this is an over-simplification of the serious medicinal aspects of
aromatherapy, it is helpful, nevertheless, in demonstrating the
effectiveness of therapeutic essential oils in the medical arena.
In this particular field of essential oil therapy, there are some prominent
medical doctors, such as Dr. Lapraz and Dr. Duraffourd of Paris, who have
undertaken thousands of clinical trials to determine the effectiveness of
essential oils in medical applications.
How Do Essential Oils Exert Such Powerful Effects In Our Bodies?
Chemically, essential oils' cell structure is very similar to the human cell
structure. The essential oil of a plant and the human blood share several
common properties.
The 4 primary elements in both human beings and essential oils:
* Plant Cells - carbon hydrogen nitrogen
oxygen
* Human Cells - carbon hydrogen nitrogen oxygen
This shared chemistry makes essential oils one of the most compatible of all
plant substances with human biochemistry. In addition, essential oils have a
protein-like structure that is similar to that found in human cells and
tissues, which allows the human protein cell structure to readily identify
and accept the chemical constituents (powerful healing properties) of
essential oils.
Essential oils have been proven to fight infection, improve the immune
system and, because they contain hormone-like compounds, are very effective
in initiating cellular/tissue regeneration. Why do they do this? Simply,
because it is their job; because Mother Nature intended them to do so in
order to protect the plants, themselves. Let's examine how...
Working as the chemical defence mechanism of the plant, essential oils
possess potent antibacterial, anti-fungal, and antiviral properties.
Essential oils are the plant liquid containing the Life Force of a plant.
Analogous with the human body, essential oils are the blood plasma of a
plant. They are volatile liquids distilled from various parts of plants,
including seeds, bark, leaves, stems, roots, flowers and fruit (essential
oils are sensitive to heat and should not be burned, as that destroys their
therapeutic properties).
If a leaf or any part of a plant has been cut or damaged for some reason,
the plant releases a liquid substance that protects it from further damage
from microbes, bacteria, and viruses, and helps the plant to regenerate
itself. This liquid is the essential oil that helps the plant to survive,
which is why essential oils are called essential. Put simply, without it,
the plant can't survive. This same principle works in a very similar way in
the human body, due to the fact that essential oils can permeate our tissues
by being so highly compatible with our cell structure. How can this be
possible?
It is possible because essential oils are complex substances, each
containing 80 – 300 compounds of different chemical constituents, and all
these compounds work synergistically. Hence, nature's wisdom is encoded in
the life force of a plant. Because essential oils are the life force of a
plant, they need to be treated with the utmost professional respect and
understating in order to retain their powerful healing properties.
So, how therapeutic are they?
Just follow your nose! The smell of the oil reveals how pure and potent it
is. For example, when inhaling any oil - particularly peppermint, lavender
or rosemary - the smell should linger on in the brain and have a very fresh
smell. If it has a very sharp tinge to it or causes a sudden sharp sensation
in the any part of the head, it contains chemicals which are 'playing' with
the neurotransmitters and receptor sites in your brain. It also helps if you
ask the company where and how they distill the oils and what chemicals are
used. Many essential oil companies still use solvents in the process of
distillation. You can tell by the smell. Why do they do it? Because
distillation is a very expensive process, which requires time, care and
integrity.
A brief look at some essential oils and the results of research so far:
Oregano is very aggressive against all microbes and it helps with digestive
problems and is anti-inflammatory. Oregano and cinnamon tested at 95%
efficiency against candida,
E. coli and streptococcus strains.
Thyme oil is very powerful oil on viruses and has demonstrated protective
properties for liver, kidneys and the heart due to its very high antioxidant properties.
Fennel oil, strengthens digestion, expels parasites and
supports and raises overall metabolism.
Fennel and Juniper together exert a warming effect on the kidneys; very
helpful during winter.
Cinnamon is 99.9% effective against all viruses. Ebola virus cannot survive
in the presence of pure unadulterated cinnamon.
Rosemary is effective for parasites, fungi and, therefore, candida.
Clove is highly protective, and is the most powerful antioxidant in nature.
In summary, orthodox medicine has no cure for the common cold and the latest
mainstream advice for preventing colds comes from studies on stress, stating
to just avoid stress. This is neither possible nor realistic for the
majority of the population as stress is always there in some way, emotional
or just the demands of the 21st century. Extensive scientific research has
proven that essential oils are quite capable of fighting the common cold
because they are anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-parasitic and
anti-inflammatory.
Using Grade-A organic therapeutic essential oils may help your immune system
to ward off the attacks of the common cold as well as destroy other
microbial invasions, such as candida infections, viruses and parasites. As
essential oils are very high frequency molecules, ranging from 52MHz -
320MHz, they are able to raise our overall body frequency (which is 62-78 Hz
when in its healthy range) every time we use them. This way, essential oils
are the best ammunition against the common cold as well as destroying
unwelcome microbial invasions, along with the daily dose of genuine positive
thinking.
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About the author
Teya Skae M.A., B.A.,Dip Health Sciences, Dip Clinical
Nutrition Kinesiologist/Nutritionist/Writer, Health/Life Coach and Educator
Teya is the founder of Empowered Living www.empowered-living.com.au
Specialising in Neurologically Balancing busy people for chronic fatigue,
corporate burnout, physical/emotional stress, Emotional Freedom Technique to
resolve energy blocks, Metabolic Typing Nutrition and Results Fat Loss. Teya
writes article for various publications and runs empowering educational
courses in the area of balancing your health, physical body,emotions, and
how to have more energy to enjoy your Life!
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