What are essential oils?
Author: DANIELA NICHITA, nutritionist
Plants from which essential oils are obtained have been used for medicinal purposes
throughout history. Most modern medicines are plants that have been modified long enough to be patented. 50% of the pharmaceutical drugs produced in the last thirty years are either directly
or indirectly from plant medicine. People have long consumed plants for their medicinal value. Many popular healing diets
consist primarily of organic plant foods and ethically raised animals that feed on these plants. Herbs, as well as highly concentrated plant essences that are distilled into essential oils,
can be used to complement and support whole foods, healing diets, and healthy lifestyle protocols.
Essential oils provide key components of the plant‘s immune system. They help plants grow, thrive, evolve and adapt to their environment. For example, they protect plants from bacterial and viral infections, heal wounds, repel unwanted predators and other environmental damage and helps deliver nutrients to cells. This makes them "essential" to a plant because they help the plant survive. Essential oils play a similar role in the human body, perhaps due to their shared chemistry. Both essential oils and humans are made up of three primary elements - carbon, hydrogen and oxygen - which makes essential oils highly compatible with human biochemistry. Research has shown that essential oils help us fight infections (with antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties), to balance hormones and emotions
and helps regeneration.
throughout history. Most modern medicines are plants that have been modified long enough to be patented. 50% of the pharmaceutical drugs produced in the last thirty years are either directly
or indirectly from plant medicine. People have long consumed plants for their medicinal value. Many popular healing diets
consist primarily of organic plant foods and ethically raised animals that feed on these plants. Herbs, as well as highly concentrated plant essences that are distilled into essential oils,
can be used to complement and support whole foods, healing diets, and healthy lifestyle protocols.
Essential oils provide key components of the plant‘s immune system. They help plants grow, thrive, evolve and adapt to their environment. For example, they protect plants from bacterial and viral infections, heal wounds, repel unwanted predators and other environmental damage and helps deliver nutrients to cells. This makes them "essential" to a plant because they help the plant survive. Essential oils play a similar role in the human body, perhaps due to their shared chemistry. Both essential oils and humans are made up of three primary elements - carbon, hydrogen and oxygen - which makes essential oils highly compatible with human biochemistry. Research has shown that essential oils help us fight infections (with antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties), to balance hormones and emotions
and helps regeneration.