Luscious: Brush a layer on corn-on-the-cob or drop a dollop into hot lentils. Pour into hollow of a freshly baked potato or saute with salmon. Stir-fry, bake, saute or spread--any which way you use it, ghee will find flavour with you. What’s more, it won’t smoke or burn during cooking.

Lasting: Keep ghee and butter at room temperature. Butter will eventually turn rancid; ghee will not. It's moisture in butter that promotes decay. Virtually moisture-free, ghee has no such problem. It will retain its original freshness and flavour for months, even without refrigeration.

Energising: Some foods dissolve in water, and some in fat. Ghee in your diet will carry fat-soluble foods quickly and easily inside cells. Such foods will reach where they are supposed to reach, to work way they are supposed to work. Sometimes, it's just packaging that makes difference.

An Anti-oxidant: Ghee has beta-carotene and vitamin E, both known anti-oxidants that counter effects of free radicals. Science has been able to establish that free radicals cause nearly 90 percent of all degenerative diseases. Ghee in your diet, then, could give Father Time a run for his money.

A Sharpener: The goodness of ghee not only powers your cells, but also penetrates corners of your mind. Result— quicker leaning, better recall, wiser decisions. Cow ghee in particular is supposed to be extremely good for your brain.

A Healer: Ghee repairs mucus lining of stomach and evens out acid balance in there. An ancient Indian fable says King Akbar Great once challenged a citizen to eat and digest limestone. The man accepted—and won. His secret? Just before he had limsetone, he downed a huge bowlful of ghee to arm his stomach against assault.

So stir-fry garlic in a teaspoon of ghee, and drizzle over piping hot bread. It’s aromatherapy of most intoxicating kind. Then feel flavour do ghee-licious things to your taste-buds. Indulge.

-5 drops Orange -5 drops Grapefruit -1 drop Lemon Verbena

Massage your abdomen, solar plexus, neck and shoulders. Pour a few drops into palm of your hands and inhale it deeply. Pour 20 drops of blend into your warm bathwater and soak for at least 15 minutes.

******** Improve Your Social Abilities ******** Dread those social gatherings and holiday parties? This aromatic blend enlivens even shyest souls.

-3 drops Basil -3 drops Peppermint -6 drops Grapefruit

Massage your abdomen, solar plexus, neck and shoulders. Pour a few drops into palm of your hands and inhale it deeply. Pour 20 drops of blend into your warm bathwater and soak for at least 15 minutes.

******** Encourage Giving to Others ******** This aromatic blend opens heart and reminds us that most valuable gift we hold within is sharing and giving to those in need.

-1 drop Rose -2 drops Ginger -4 drops Grapefruit -3 drops Frankincense

Massage your heart chakra, solar plexus, neck and shoulders. Dare to wear it like a perfume! Pour a few drops into palm of your hands and inhale it deeply. Pour 20 drops of blend into your warm bathwater and soak for at least 15 minutes.

(c) Francoise Rapp, 2001. Discover life-transforming power of aromatherapy! Internationally renowned aromatherapist and alchemist, Francoise Rapp, shares her expertise through aromatherapy classes designed for working adults and in her free weekly ezine, The Arom'Alchemy Newsletter. All this and more can be found at http://www.aromalchemy.com