EO contraindications (was NO carriers for EO's?)

[Guest guest]

Dear Laurie,

 

Greetings. Common aromatherapy applications - diluted preparations

(generally 2.5% or less taught in most schools) for massage or topicause,

use in baths, compresses and inhalations - are all 'low dose' applications.

As such, the common cotraindications for use are generally untrue - but they

keep being repeated ad infinitum and are never substantiated. It almost

seems 'toxicity warnings' are the flavour of the month!

With such applications, the only real warnings relate to sensitisation

(allergic) reactions (uncommon, but real and sometimes nasty), irritation

(transitory and in such low concentrations, uncommon) and photosensitisation

(such as with expressed Bergamot oil). The rest of it - abortifaecients,

cancer, high and low blood pressure, kidney and liver damage, even epilepsy

(at least for those folks whose seizures are controlled by medication)

simply does NOT relate to these types of common applications. Once we get

into " Aromatic Medicine " or using ingested essential oils with or without

other herbal extracts, then, yes, there is more to be said about

contraindications.

 

I attach a copy of my paper for your reading. I just ask that you respect

the copyright.

 

Best Regards, Ron Guba

-

Laurie Anderson <ljandie

Ron Guba <esstherapeutics;

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Monday, April 03, 2000 1:21 AM

EO contraindications (was NO carriers for EO's?)

 

 

> Hi Ron and all,

>

> Ron wrote....snip< Lastly, I do disagree with you regarding your

> remarks about pregnancy. Just about all the Aromatherapy books have got

> it wrong re: toxicity in pregnancy. Any common oil can be used topically

> (up to 2.5%) in massage,

> etc. during pregnancy with absolutely no problem. I have a paper,

> entitled " Toxicity Myths " , which details this further. < End snip...

>

> This is a very interesting thread. I almost wrote the same thing,

> but I would actually have encompassed all of the statements in that

> post.

>

> Here's another snip< ...can aggravate epilepsy or high blood pressure,

> can cause tissue and organ damage, are skin irritants whether they burn

> the skin or not, and can be abortificants. <End snip...

>

> Now please, I AM NOT picking on the individual who wrote that post. I

> see these comments all the time because they are written in many of the

> current AT texts, however it has been pointed out to me on other AT

> newsgroups that there is no PROOF of many of these statements with

> regard to EO's. There is some proof of some of these statements in

> regard to the use of HERBS, but the effects of internal herb use on the

> body cannot be generalized to EO's. In fact, a prominent professional

> AT practitioner relates a story of using rosemary oil around someone

> with a history of seizure disorder, supposedly an absolute no-no, yet to

> no effect on the individual. The AT commented that it must be wondered

> how much the power of suggestion plays into some of these traditional

> " reactions " to the oils. Comments anyone? Laurie

>

>

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Ron and all,

 

Ron wrote....snip< Lastly, I do disagree with you regarding your

remarks about pregnancy. Just about all the Aromatherapy books have got

it wrong re: toxicity in pregnancy. Any common oil can be used topically

(up to 2.5%) in massage,

etc. during pregnancy with absolutely no problem. I have a paper,

entitled " Toxicity Myths " , which details this further. < End snip...

 

This is a very interesting thread. I almost wrote the same thing,

but I would actually have encompassed all of the statements in that

post.

 

Here's another snip< ...can aggravate epilepsy or high blood pressure,

can cause tissue and organ damage, are skin irritants whether they burn

the skin or not, and can be abortificants. <End snip...

 

Now please, I AM NOT picking on the individual who wrote that post. I

see these comments all the time because they are written in many of the

current AT texts, however it has been pointed out to me on other AT

newsgroups that there is no PROOF of many of these statements with

regard to EO's. There is some proof of some of these statements in

regard to the use of HERBS, but the effects of internal herb use on the

body cannot be generalized to EO's. In fact, a prominent professional

AT practitioner relates a story of using rosemary oil around someone

with a history of seizure disorder, supposedly an absolute no-no, yet to

no effect on the individual. The AT commented that it must be wondered

how much the power of suggestion plays into some of these traditional

" reactions " to the oils. Comments anyone? Laurie