The skin as a therapeutic absorbent
The skin is an absorbent organ of nutrients, medicines and essential oils that can be used with therapeutic purposes.
The skin absorbs many
chemicals, such as hormones and analgesics. The use of essential oils to
therapeutic advantage isn’t something new, nor magical. Reports on the use of essential oils on the skin date
over 3,565 years ago.
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| Myrrha in detail |
The use myrrh, for
example, is extracted from the cortex of a tree named Commiphora Myrrha
(Africa, Arabia and Turkey) it’s documented in Egypcian Papyrus where physicians
would spread them on wounds and heal. Romans used myrrh extract to prevent wine
from turning to vinegar (elimination the Acetobacter bacteria).
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| Leeuwenhoek painting |
In the XVII
century, bacteria is discovered by Leeuwenhoek and in 1860 Pasteur discovers
that bacteria are the main cause for infections. In 1920 the Australian chemist
Arthur Penforl published an article on the In Vitro use of Tea Tree Oil extract
as an antimicrobial and treated infected wounds on soldiers.
Only until 1930 is penicillin used for infections.
Only until 1930 is penicillin used for infections.
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| Old Lithography of oil extracts in medieval times |
Essential oils are
extracted from plants and trees. Throughout 1564 and 1937 many studies on oil
therapy where made mostly in Europe, yet many do not believe in it’s full
medicinal potential, what can be stated is that the skin absorbs the substance
and locates the source of alteration in the body, whether it’s infectious or
inflammatory, etc.
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| Essential Natural Cutaneous Oils |
I’d prefer for a
patient to use essential oil therapy for arthritis pain, based on laurel, black
pepper, cinnamon, clove bud, chamomile, ginger, juniper, mint and thyme floral
extracts rather than a gel/ream based on diclofenac. The concomitant use of
essential oils during Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT) and Insulin Potentiation Therapy Low Dose (IPTLD) is a complementary therapy for cancer or other chronic illnesses, allied in the
healing process. I recommend it to all my patients for pain, energy, relaxation, sweling, etc.
IPT Medical Team of Donato Pérez García, MD
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