Essential Oils on the Homestead

Reader Contribution by Victoria Gazeley
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“Mama, where’s the peppermint oil?”

My 9-year old son had eaten something that didn’t agree with him and was looking for relief.  As is usual around here with all sorts of health maladies, we didn’t reach for pharmaceuticals or the remedies most of us used growing up (remember that pink stuff… yuck!) – we opened up our vintage cedar boxes full of therapeutic grade essential oils (we use a number of different brands – Essential Aura, Young Living and a few small artisanal brands).  In fact, I think I can count on one hand (with some fingers left over) the number of times this child has been exposed to ‘conventional’ remedies.  His first bout with antibiotics came for a tooth infection when he was 5, and none since.  I consider myself lucky to have that knowledge, helping him build a strong immune system from day one.  He’s never had any of the common ‘childhood illnesses’, even though he’s been exposed to a few, and as he gets older, he’s falling to fewer and fewer colds and flus than seem average among his friends.  Part of that is that he doesn’t have any siblings snarfing all over him, partly our relatively clean diet, and the rest, I firmly believe, is due to our regular use of essential oils.

When I did my Registered Aromatherapist training back in 2000-2003, I could never have imagined the things I’d one day use oils for.  Mostly I was thinking of using them for relaxation and emotional stuff.  But when we moved onto 7 acres in the country, I discovered there’s no shortage of applications!  In the last year, we’ve pulled out those vintage boxes for all sorts of things:

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