Copyright 2004 by http://www.organicgreens.us and Loring Windblad. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos. My sweetie (my wife June) had breast cancer a few years ago and we opted 1) to have a lymph-ectomy (mistake) and later 2) radiation (good decision). Regardless of whether it was a mistake we did it and
result is that she has to be very careful about not injuring her right arm. Last summer and fall she burned herself on our oven three times, one of them very seriously.
She happened to go on an outing with several girl friends right after
bad burn and in talking it over with them they decided to put therapeutic-grade lavender essential oil on
burn. She could feel it healing immediately and in spite of this being a large burn (2” x 6”) it healed with only a very small scar, about
size of a half-quarter (like a half-moon shape).
Non-therapeutic-grade lavender helped
two previous burns as well. We have been using essential oils for several years, for rubs, for aromatherapy*, disinfecting and healing small cuts and abrasions, etc. But this was
first time we had learned of its healing properties for burns. And was
girls used was a much better grade of lavender than we had at home. We have since replaced all our oils with
Young Living essential oils and find that they are much more powerful and a far superior grade.
It’s also interesting to note
very modern history of aromatherapy* as documented below.
“*Aromatherapy is a phrase coined by Rene-Maurice Gattefosse, Ph.D., in 1920, who was a French cosmetic chemist. While working in his laboratory, he had an accident that resulted in a third degree thermal burn of his hand and forearm. He plunged his arm into a vat of lavender oil, thinking that it was water. To his surprise,
burning slowly decreased and then stopped within a few moments. Over a period of time, with
continual application of lavender oil,
burn healed completely without a trace of a scar. As a chemist, he analyzed
essential oil of lavender and discovered that it contained many substances referred to as chemical constituents or chemical properties. As a result of this, Dr. Gattefosse determined that essential oils contained tremendous healing properties.“