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Cold Remedies with Essential Oils

When the cold and flu season is in full swing, here is a review some of the more important essential oils and how we can use them to combat those winter bugs! My first advice is to keep your environment clean and free of germs. This can be easily done by burning an essential oil…

The Limbic System

We have all had the experience where a particular smell has brought us back to a time and place of memory. It could be a freshly baked apple pie transporting you back to childhood and the first time you smelled apple pie baking. Or maybe a cologne wafts by and wham, you’re thinking back to…

Temples of the Goddesses

When speaking of the Goddess, we are considering at a vast array of ideas, beliefs and cultural traditions as to how we as humans interpret the goddess form. And because it is such an all-encompassing subject, I’ll narrow it down in this article to a very specific energetic that I would like to explore, which…

Oils for Common Complaints

An easy resource to find suggested oils for many common complaints, catagorized by the condition or disease. These oils, depending on the ailment, can be burned in an aroma lamp, mixed in a carrier oil and applied, or put in a bowl of hot water and inhaled. Normally essential oils are too potent to be…

Essential Oil Reflections

In the law of microcosms/macrocosms, it is believed that everything is reflected from the most minute to the most expansive. Spirals within spirals, patterns within patterns. The world shows you where you are by mirroring it back to you. I believe that this idea is even reflected in the art of aromatherapy. In my over…

Benzoin

For thousands of years benzoin has been used in the East for incense and in medicinal preparations. Here in the West it was commonly known as gum benjamin or Friar’s Balsam and the extract was cut in alcohol and used for respiratory complaints. Now a days the gum is used as a fixative for potpourris…

Sweet Basil

Every spring I plant fresh basil in my herb garden so I can enjoy a summer of pesto sauces over my pasta dishes. Sweet basil is an easy herb to grow in this climate and has many uses, not only in cooking, but therapeutic as well. Originally grown around the Mediterranean, _ocimum basilicum_, is steam…

Late Summer – Stomach and Spleen

It is late summer and the Chinese believe that now the Earth Element, which is comprised of the *Stomach* (yang organ) and *Spleen* (yin organ) meridians, is highlighted. Late summer falls somewhere midway between June 21st and September 21; the solstice and the equinox. From what I understand, this season is more of a feeling…

Winter – Kidney and Urinary Bladder

The Chinese Meridians that are associated with winter are the *Kidneys* (yin) and the *Urinary Bladder* (yang). The kidneys are responsible to filtering waste metabolites from the blood and sending the waste product down to the urinary bladder for elimination. The urinary bladder, in return, is responsible to collecting and holding the waste fluids and…