An earlier post of Farah

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I don't think Farah posted this but it is interesting to locate this information

and I plan

on trying essential oils.

Sheryl

I like books by Ann Worwood as a primer to get to know all

the ways to use essential oils.

The best books on using essential oils for infectious diseases have

been written by medical doctors in France. They are in French and are

still untranslated.

Most aromatherapists generally recommend dilutions of 5%-10%

essential oil to base carrier oil for most health problems.

For Lyme disease, generally a dilution of 15%-25% works better. It

takes a little while to acclimate to using them at this

concentration.

When I first started using them at these concentrations, I would have

mild transient nauseous feelings.

I would reduce the amount I applied when I had these feelings. After

a few days, the mild nauseous feeling went away.

I wouldn't use oils that are severely irritating to the skin in this

way, such as cinnamon or clove.

I would apply the oils to areas where I would have symptoms and I

would herx, and the symptoms would fade. Then the symptoms would

frequently move to another area that I hadn't applied the oils to.

I felt like I would chase the disease around my body, but that the

symptoms would fade in severity and the windows of time when I was

well got wider and wider.

I started using the oils when my digestion could no longer tolerate

antibiotics, I didn't have insurance, and didn't really know what

else I could do to help myself.

I had tried the oils in normal amounts recommended in books by

aromatherapists, and they didn't do anything for me.

I didn't know what to do or where to turn and my health went into a

tailspin within a day of not taking antibiotics, and I was having a

severe digestive crisis, among other issues.

In that state, I was like, what the hell, desperate times call for

desperate measures. I rubbed thyme oil neet, meaning undiluted, on my

head and my body (don't do this, it is extremely irritating to the

skin undiluted and this is a very potent and fairly harsh oil).

And then my husband took me to the hospital. While we were in the

waiting room of the ER, my fatigue and brain fog, and depression

lifted, my severe excruciating pain started disappearing, and in

about an hour I felt practically normal.

Of course, when the doctors finally saw me, I was acting okay. They

gave me the line that if I had been on doxycycline for three weeks I

was cured of Lyme Disease and couldn't have it any more.

And of course, did very little for me. They may have been wondering

why I was so fragrant also. Even more reason to think I was a

hypochondriac kooky nutcase.

Anyway, after my experience with thyme oil, I realized I was on to

something, and it was something that wouldn't screw up my digestion

further.

I started reading about other oils that had strong antibacterial

effects, and I started blending the oils in higher concentrations,

and I got good effects.

I used them to massage into my skin, and I used them daily in hot

baths. I used mostly heat and essential oils at that juncture to get

me out of the most severe stages of the illness.

Then I slowly tried Chinese herbs.

I took small amounts of antibiotics on and off over the years, mainly

amoxillin (1000 mg/day)and minocycline(200mg/day, and then 100mg/day,

and then 50mg/day). I did two weeks of IV rocephin when I briefly had

insurance in 2003.

I found that the antibiotics mainly seemed to freeze the disease and

prevent it from moving around my body so much, and this made it

easier to kill bacteria using the oils, which I always kept using.

About two years ago, I started taking very small amounts of diluted

essential oils orally (by the drop), sort of like people take oil of

oregano, and have not needed to be on antibiotics at all since that.

Taking these micro amounts helped to maintain a steady concentration

of essential oils in my blood all the time.

I don't have to take the oils orally or through my skin most of the

time now. Maybe I will use them minimally once a month before my

period.

I take a some Chinese herbs that promote blood circulation on and off

now. I take a few supplements, like niacin, and N-acetyl cysteine,

chromium picolinate, flaxseed oil, lecithin and that is it.

I even forgot to take those for a while when I was in India, and I am

doing well. I still stay very vigilant as I NEVER EVER want to have a

serious relapse. I lead a normal and active life now.

I do a lot of work online, which makes it easy for me to regularly

post here on this board.

Farah