23d • Essential Oils
In conversation with Mathew.....
wrote a piece on Dill, which you will find here: https://www.skool.com/maverick-aromatherapy-3200/dill-essential-oil
We had an interesting conversation which culminated in this response from me with regards to absorption and elimination of EO's in and out of the body. I felt it was an important response for everyone to have a read, so here it is:
Matthew: "From what I under depending on ythe essential oil in question and its unique chemistry, the bodys ability to absorb and metabolise essential oils will greatly differ anything from 15-30 minutes to be absorbed into the body and by the time its eliminated, this could take anything from 3 hours to a couple of days. We simply don't know exactly because there are too many variables and no one has really studied or published enough information about this for each of the essentials used in clinical practice."
Me: You are right, we do not know exactly, and Tisserand is cited quite regularly having "thoroughly" investigated this.
However, I was trained by Marguerite Maury's 'descendants'. As you know she was a biochemist, unlike Tisserand. My point being that she investigated the bioavailability and metabolic rate of elimination of EO's from the body. Granted she wouldn't have investigated every single EO, and there are far more available today.
What was passed on to me in my training was this: the elimination rate can be calculated determined my the molecular size of the EO based on perfumery's top, middle and base notes. The rule of thumb for elimination is as follows:
Top notes 2-3 days, Middle notes 3-5 days and Base notes up to a week and sometimes a little longer. Sandalwood EO was found in urine 7 days after a single application.
Many decades ago, my teacher introduced us to a lady who taught us how to dowse for EO's. Early on I found that if a client would come back to me just a day or two after completing their course for what I call an "oil change", the dowser would pick out some of the same oils from the original blend.
With a pattern forming, it didn't take me long to have a light bulb moment to realise the dowser was picking up some of the same oils because they were still in the system, in other words, and for example a Middle or Base note oil was still floating about in the body, and more importantly, were therefore still working. Much like antibiotics do after you have finished a course of treatment, although the exact duration depends on the specific medication, dosage, and your personal metabolism.
Think Paracelsus here "What is there that is not poison? All things are poison and nothing is without poison. Solely the dose determines that a thing is not a poison". Think of the liver here and how every single thing we apply on or in our body has to go through the liver to be metabolised, too much (think dosage and time) and it becomes toxic.
So, we have D.A.F.T. as I now teach my students:
D=Dosage, A=Application, F=Frequency and T=Time.
In summary and in Aroma-therapeutic practice, we have to wait until the client's body is completely clear of the blend we have prescribed to see if the required outcome has been achieved or whether a further "tweek" is required to continue the healing progress.
Oh, and as to absorption rate, whether application or inhalation, the absorption I was taught, and again based on molecular size was this:
Top=up to 20 minutes, Middle=up to 40 minutes, Base=1 hour.
Given this goes back over 60 years ago, the stoneage of Aromatherapy 😂, the very best way to absorb EO's was having a scented aromatherapeutic bath (think Hippocrates) which Maury listed after application and inhalation as being the best way to absorb EO's as you got the best combination of the prior two forms of absorption and only required a 20 minute soak in a bath.
This is why, my friend, I will be forever grateful to Irene Latter who introduced my to Janet Morgan, who taught me how to dowse for EO's. Radiesthesia, brings together the biology, chemistry and physics applied in Aromatherapy."
A nod here too, to as there is a video floating around somewhere, where she and I discussed this very topic some 7 years ago.
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