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9 Essential Oil for Hormonal Imbalance

5/14/2020

Hormonal imbalances go beyond menopause and hot flashes. Both men and women are affected by imbalances. Symptoms include weight gain, fatigue, insomnia, depression, mood swings and fertility problems. Left untreated, hormonal imbalances can lead to diseases like cancer and diabetes.

HOLISTIC TREATMENT & ESSENTIAL OILS
A holistic approach is the best way to correct hormonal imbalances. The definition of the word holistic is: the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts.

Treating hormonal imbalances with pharmaceuticals often aggressively corrects one imbalance while creating complications in other parts of the endocrine system. Essential oils are the best solution for the holistic treatment of imbalances. According to a report by Maria Graça Miguel, faculty member at Portugal’s University of Algarve, essential oils have powerful anti-oxidant qualities that fight toxicity.

‘Essential oils are perfect, whether it’s for a situational or chronic issue. So much of what we are taking internally and inhaling are leading to what I refer to as estrogen pollution in our bodies. If we can embrace more natural, non-toxic, synthetic-free remedies, we lower our toxic threshold and the resulting hormonal imbalances that occur from breaching that threshold.’ — Marie Delcioppo, health coach and New York Times featured Raw Foods Chef.

SUPER ESSENTIAL OILS
There’s a super-group of essential oils called adaptogens. These smart essential oils are unique because they have opposing healing properties like being both stimulating and relaxing — they adapt to your needs.

The use of adaptogen essential oils are pivotal for hormonal imbalances where glands may be under-functioning in one system, while over-functioning in another. Adaptogenic essential oils are capable of balancing opposing conditions without creating further imbalance, as many pharmaceuticals would cause. Using them together further strengthens their healing properties.

9 ADAPTOGEN ESSENTIAL OILS FOR HORMONE BALANCE:
1. Basil
2. Lavender
3. Anise
4. Licorice
5. Lemon
6. Myrtle
7. Clary sage
8. Geranium
9. Lemongrass

Here’s how to treat hormonal imbalances using these nine super essential oils:

Adrenal Balance with Basil, Lavender and Anise

Your adrenal glands are responsible for how you cope with stress. If you’re trying to juggle a job, family and the demands of everyday life, you are likely to have overworked adrenals.
Cortisol, the “stress hormone” is produced by the adrenal glands and regulates your body’s response to stress. It works on a schedule — good sleep, starting at 10 pm, maximizes adrenal hormone function. Out of balance cortisol levels lead to:

• feeling exhausted upon waking even after a long night’s sleep
• high energy late in the evening or waking up at 2 or 3 in the morning
• an inability to calmly deal with stress
• food cravings
• brain fog

Basil essential oil increases the body’s natural response to both physical and emotional stress while conditioning you to cope better.

According to a study published in the journal Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, scientists examined the effects of daily basil extracts on stress symptoms in men and women over six weeks. 39% of patients showed a decrease in general stress symptoms, such as sleep problems, exhaustion, and forgetfulness.

‘Basil is indicated for those who are weary in mind and body and for those in need of strength and renewal’— Daniel MacDonald, author of Emotions & Essential Oils: Emotional Reference Guide
Basil essential oil soothes feelings of anxiety, overwhelm and exhaustion. Rub a couple of drops of high quality organic basil oil daily into your forearms or your ear’s adrenal gland point at the tragus (the cartilage above your ear lobe) to bring balance to your adrenals.

Life is demanding — the key to adrenal balance is to allow yourself more restorative relaxation time and sleep. Improve the quality of your sleep with lavender aromatherapy.

A study by the Department of Psychology of Wesleyan University, Connecticut found that the aromatherapeutic use of lavender increased the percentage of deep, restorative, slow-wave sleep in all men and women. Make an essential oil mist of lavender and water in a spray bottle and spray the mixture on your pillow before bedtime to enhance deep sleep. Add anise oil to the lavender mist to amplify the restful qualities of both oils.

Thyroid Dysfunction and Myrtle, Lemongrass and Licorice
According to the American Thyroid Association (ATA), 20 million Americans suffer from some form of thyroid disease, while 60% of sufferers are not even aware of it. The thyroid controls important functions like the body’s metabolism and temperature regulation. Out of balance thyroid function symptoms include:
• Depression
• Uncontrollable weight gain or loss
• Dry hair and skin
• Cold or heat fluctuations
• Insomnia

Myrtle oil is an adaptogen that can stimulate thyroid activity. Dr. Daniel Penoel, MD specializes in myrtle oil research and discovered that the oil has the natural ability to balance and normalize hormonal imbalances of both the thyroid and ovaries, regardless of whether either are under or over performing.
Rub a few drops of organic myrtle oil into your foot’s big toe and the reflexology point for the thyroid located at the base of the foot in the fleshy area below the big toe. Another area where myrtle oil is effective is the thyroid area below the Adam’s apple, at the base of your throat.

Essential oils are able to penetrate skin membranes quickly. A study conducted by scientists at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Vienna, Germany found that the healing compounds of essential oils enter the bloodstream within five minutes of skin application.

Magnify the thyroid-healing effect of myrtle oil by blending it with lemongrass oil, another thyroid-boosting adaptogen, or alternate between each.

Licorice is a powerful antidepressant. To fight thyroid imbalance symptoms like fatigue and depression, rub a drop of licorice oil in your hands and rub together to warm. Inhale the warm scent for a mood boost.

Ovary Balance with Lemon, Clary Sage and Geranium
While menstruation and menopause are natural processes of womanhood, some of the side effects are not. The ovaries produce the hormones estrogen and progesterone, which when imbalanced, lead to several symptoms including:
• PMS
• infertility
• difficult or irregular menstrual cycles
• lowered libido
• difficult menopausal symptoms like sweats and hot flashes

Start your day with a simple liver detox to keep hormonal imbalances from wreaking havoc. The liver regulates the sex hormones, primarily estrogen. Add 2 – 3 drops of lemon essential oil into a cup of warm water and drink it first thing in the morning.
A Dutch study has found that the compounds in lemon peels, a large component of lemon essential oil, improve liver functions like hormone regulation by lowering liver cholesterol.

Clary sage has been used since Medieval times to treat the list of symptoms above. It’s quite helpful in not only balancing hormones but for also relieving pain. Dilute a few drops in almond oil and rub the dilution into the ankles daily. If menstrual cramps are painful, rub the mixture on the stomach and ovary area for pain relief. Add the adaptogen oil geranium to the blend to enhance pain relief.

To soothe PMS and other feminine discomforts, add a few drops of clary sage and geranium to a warm bath and enjoy a soak.
Hormonal imbalances can be treated with essential oils safely and holistically. As with all new health regimes, consult with a trusted practitioner and start gradually. Using these nine essential oils is an enjoyable way to work toward hormonal balance and better body, mind and spirit awareness.

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Create Spa atmosphere at Home

5/14/2020

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During this Covid-19 pandemic, we mostly spend time at home. It is a great time to enjoy the family company and it is also a great time to redecorating in some parts of the house by creating a nice atmosphere. A Spa theme decoration concept could be interesting. Imagine if you inhale a scent of aroma when you walk into the house, how refreshing would it be. But for a professional spa environment it goes beyond just a nice scent of aroma. Of course, there is more to it. Let's take a look what aspects they are considering in a spa top professional environment that we can bring to our home spa. Most of professional spa interior and decoration are base for the well being and holistic approach for their client. There are five main components which are visual, touch, scent, taste and sound.

Visual is based on decoration themes like location, color, comfort, style. You will find that most of spa decorations follow their identity and provide for customer rest and private escape. Some do have nice scenery near a beach, mountain, waterfall, or even in a city spa that provides steam room and jacuzzi for their customer to seek out of those facilities to benefit their health and well being. We may not be able to compete with professional spa in this respect, but what we could do for example, create a natural friendly atmosphere at home with a simple touch, such as a nice vase with flowers, a green plant in some corner, a comfortably cotton pillow, a nice piece of soap bar/bath salt/shampoo in the bath room, a nice picture of mountain, the sea, or buddha that may lead you to further relaxation, mediation, or yoga at home.

Touch is one of elements are important at a spa. Mostly, it is widely known that spas provide different types of massage service, such as head/scalp message, facial treatment, body massage/scrub/mask, foot spa and reflexology. The ideal of touch therapy is to stimulate the blood circulation in different part of the body which all reflex to the heart. Once our body had a good circulation it results in good skin, youth, muscle tone and more. how to create touch at home is simply, for example, stimulate our skin by scrubbing, massage, moisturising with some spa product. Having jacuzzi bath will stimulate our body while inhaling a scent of essential/ bath salt.

Scent in spas go beyond to the scent of therapy. Essential oils play an important role at aromatherapy. Most of spas using essential oils not only promote a good spas environment, but also applying it in their product as well. Why essential scent is so important? Using the pure essential oil is becoming an important health issue. There are several researches using essential oil to cure some symptoms in hormonal imbalances such as weight gain, fatigue, insomnia, depression, mood swings and fertility problems. You can also search on internet which benefit of essential oil are in each scent. Back to how we create our spa aroma scent at home, we could possibility do it in several ways such as having an aroma burner with essential oil, Aroma Stick, Aroma candle, Room spray.

Taste, we can see many spas offering spa cuisine that provides clean food for healthy and detoxification. This also includes a lot of herbs and natural benefits of drink and snack we have. The main idea is to rejuvenate our body to rebalance with a healthy digestive system. Apart from clean food, we can also enjoy a sip of herbal drink from a tea pot which there are different types of teas. For example, green tea where research found that it could recover skin from sun damage and against prostate cancer. Lemongrass tea is a good cleanser that helps to detoxify the liver, pancreas, kidneys, bladder and the digestive tract. It cuts down uric acid, cholesterol, excess fats and other toxins in the body while stimulating digestion, blood circulation, and lactation; it also alleviates indigestion and gastroenteritis. Also, it can reduce blood pressure. Just make a concoction by boiling some lemon grass leaves, let it cool for a while and drink the liquid.

Sound is originally referred to natural sound like wave, bird, river, and music. The music is commonly used in spas combined with sounds of running waterfall. Music is also well known as sound therapy. We know how music works to make us feel happy, tranquil, energized or even to facilitate healing. Most researchers into sound therapy agree that sound waves or frequencies are responsible for music's ability to influence us and many researchers believe that they may have therapeutic benefits that go far beyond the ability to alter our moods, believing the right frequencies used in the right combinations may be able to bring about biological changes that can help boost our immune system and even heal the body. At home, we are choosing different kinds of music that we prefer.

The cost is friendly to DIY and make your place look more attractive. May be it could be a good start for new experience. Good health with feeling of a spa at your home is bringing the luxury touch to you and your guests.