I have been researching or partaking in non-conventional forms of therapy and looking into alternatives to traditional Western medicine.  But since I am a lover of information and I research everything, I really want to know if they work.  So I am going to do some investigation into Essential Oils. (EO)

Some of the EO claims are: that it cures infections, decrease or eliminates pain, helps with anxiety ,  depression, tumors, premenstrual syndrome, nausea, and many others.  As of late, I have made my own natural antiseptic surface cleaners.  I want to know if there has been some research in a lab, with a Petri dish comparing EO’s with Purell.  I have accepted it as true but now the work begins.

After reading an article from , “Taking Charge of Your Health & Wellbeing”  I discovered that there really hasn’t been a lot of research done except by food, flavoring, cosmetics, and tobacco industries. Those industries seem to be  interested in the flavor, mood alteration, and preservative qualities of essential oils.  Current research is being conducted in Europe, Australia, Japan, India, the United States, and Canada.  The studies have revealed, so far, that there are remarkable healing properties of oils.  But where are these studies?  That is what I am in the process of doing right now…….more to come.