Rosewood oil long

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Due to major telecoms problems my website and normal email is offline

once again, but at long last have let me sign in, how long for

remains to be seen:(

 

So I have extracted the relevent details in plain text from my web

pages. Chrissie Wildwood told me yesterday that she is building her

own website where you will be able to read much more on conservation

issues. I will pass that URL on when it is ready.

 

Martin Watt

http://www.aromamedical.com (When its workng again)!

Aternative email is: aromamedical-2

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Dec. 2003: This week (14th Dec.) the body of a 27 year old Greenpeace

activist was found floating in the Amazon. Emily Craddock was

investigating the activities of the illegal loggers operating

throughout the Amazon basin. It is believed she may have fallen

overboard, but as it is known that loggers had threatened this

expedition, investigations are ongoing.

 

A book soon to be published by Chrissie Wildwood will be exposing the

lies told by most rosewood oil suppliers over their sources. See my

other articles under conservation & trade update.

 

I would just ask those who insist on selling and using rosewood oil

to consider this. What you have done is indirectly contribute to the

death of the young lady mentioned above. All the excuses the trade

come up with about " we only use the sawdust " " we only use the

leaves " " we are only tiny users compared to other trades " etc. are

simply hogwash to cover them continuing to trade in endangered

species and helping support criminals.

 

We in aromatherapy have never needed this oil as most of the

therapeutics are the inventions of aromatherapy authors. For my part

I have always refused to write a monograph on the uses of rosewood

oils and my opposition to their use dates back well over 10 years.

 

My respects to Emily and her family, a sad loss to the world at such

a young age.

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Part of articles 1 and 2

It is now clear that the essential oil traders have been lying for

years about the origin of, for example, Rosewood oil. There has

*never* been any ecologically sustainable production of this oil.

 

Currently, even oil claimed to come from leaves and twigs is produced

from felled wild trees. There have only been a few experimental

distillations of this oil. Above all, it is important to remember

that no oils from cultivated rosewood trees have yet been provided to

the commercial oils market. Production from the few experimental

plantations established in the 1990s is some years away.

 

For many years I have been saying that rosewood oil should not be

used in aromatherapy because:

a). The trees were endangered species on the CITES lists.

b). There was no sound therapeutic use information - most

being 'invented' by modern aromatherapy authors.

 

To counter the ecological issues argument, most aromatherapy

suppliers started to claim that: " their oils come from the leaves of

plantation grown trees " . I have always thought this was a trade scam

but have never had the opportunity to prove it.  Now, Chrissie

Wildwood - helped by a few others - has done a magnificent job in

checking out the claims being made by aromatherapy suppliers and

proving they are lies.

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The market is now flooded with semi-synthetic sandalwood oil due to

the shortage of the real thing. The aromatherapy trade is only a

small part of the huge criminal trade in real Sandalwood oil, but I

thought aromatherapists were supposed to be caring people??? So take

a look at what your supplier claims on the above issues.

 

These conservation issues make me more sick of the hypocrisy in

aromatherapy than anything else. Many of its leading figures try to

give the impression they are lovely spiritual caring people. Yet what

do they do - they condone the rape of the Worlds forests for

their 'energetic' oils. Recently is was reported that Amazon jungle

deforestation increased by 40% between 2001 and 2002 BBC world news

report here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3024636.stm

and: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2193172.stm

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