Hi, voyager :) Thank you for sharing all the love and care that lives in your own household. It is truly heartwarming. :)
It's certainly wasn't surprising to read that Jack 'he has become very accustomed to nestling between us and ensuring he has the last word on this (i could not move him for trying)
I want to share something that I learned from my daughter that might also help (maybe, you're doing it already :) ) The power of the healing hand, especially, during sleep. Let me explain further. My daughter was born premature, and although she didn't have any visible physical problems (she was breathing normally, smiling and sleeping a lot :)), she was really skinny when she was born. So, when I took her home from hospital, she slept in bed with me (in a little basket made of fabric). And when we were sleeping together, every night I was holding my hand on her lower back, where children's bodies naturally curve when sleeping :) Later, when she had a bout of whooping cough, I put her in between my hands (one hand on the back, and the other in front on her chest), so she could sleep, and in the morning she was feeling much better.
About the essential oils. If you're gonna look into this option, I would like to share some thoughts. You might already know this, so this is just a reminder. I think that the proportion between the amount of any essential oil ( stand alone or a combination) to the amount of the carrier oil has to be very different for dogs than for humans ( i.e. really minute amount of essential oil to much bigger amount of the carrier oil), as to not to offend the dog's senses and do not give him a shock. Especially, at the beginning. As it goes, the less, is more. Sort of like oil homeopathy :) What kind of carrier oil is used and the purity of it is also important. Maybe, purified animal fat will work better? The process of mixing animal fat and essential oil it's a difficult one, but maybe not that impossible. The fat might be slightly heated up to a certain temperature, if the fat is solid or semi-solid at the room temperature. The heating and the temperature needed can be chosen visually; it might be very similar to a process of making chocolate: you heat the chocolate a little bit until it starts to melt, take the pot off the stove, wait a little bit until it melts completely), and then mix it with the essential oil by vigorously stirring it, not shaking. Even it very well may be that the final formulation needs to be massaged into the skin when it is slightly warm. I think that the fresh preparation/mixture needs to be made each time, right before the application.
There are two articles from SoTT page where Frankincense is mentioned:
http://www.sott.net/article/207899-Frankincense-Tree-Sap-May-Be-a-Cure-for-Cancer
http://www.sott.net/article/190273-Use-the-Healing-Properties-of-Helichrysum-Essential-Oil
I also found one more https://www.sites.google.com/site/younglivingeu/home/28-days-to-kill-cancer-cells---sacred-frankincense--dr-suhail-s-research
There were several interesting points in it, especially, considering that there is such thing as "Sacred Frankincense" sold by Young living oils.
“The records show that frankincense was produced here as far back as 7,000 BC,” he says. He produces an army knife. He used to be a member of the Sultan’s Special Forces. With a practised flick, he cuts a strip of bark from the trunk of one of the Boswellia sacra trees. Pinpricks of milky-white sap appear on the wood and, very slowly, start to ooze out.
“This is the first cut. But you don’t gather this sap,” he says. “It releases whatever impurities are in the wood. The farmers return after two or three weeks and make a second, and a third, cut. Then the sap comes out yellow, or bright green, or brown or even black. They take this.”
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“We learnt about frankincense from our forefathers and they learnt it from theirs” he says. “The practice has been passed down through the generations. We exported the frankincense, and that’s how the families in Dhofar made their livings.”
And what an export trade it was. Frankincense was sent by camel train to Egypt, and from there to Europe. It was shipped from the ancient port of Sumharan to Persia, India and China. Religions adopted frankincense as a burnt offering.
And what an export trade it was. Frankincense was sent by camel train to Egypt, and from there to Europe. It was shipped from the ancient port of Sumharan to Persia, India and China. Religions adopted frankincense as a burnt offering.
The Roman Empire coveted the frankincense trade. In the first century BCE, Augustus Caesar sent 10,000 troops to invade what the Romans called Arabia Felix to find the source of frankincense and to control its production. The legions, marching from Yemen, were driven back by the heat and the aridity of the desert. They never found their Eldorado.
Oman’s frankincense trade went into decline three centuries ago, when Portugal fought Oman for dominance of the sea routes in the Indian and the Pacific Oceans.
Nowadays, hardly any Omani frankincense is exported. Partly, this is because bulk buyers, such as the Roman Catholic Church, buy cheaper Somalian varieties. Partly, it is because Omanis now produce so little.
Nowadays, hardly any Omani frankincense is exported. Partly, this is because bulk buyers, such as the Roman Catholic Church, buy cheaper Somalian varieties. Partly, it is because Omanis now produce so little.
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Scientists have observed that there is some agent within frankincense which stops cancer spreading, and which induces cancerous cells to close themselves down. He is trying to find out what this is.
“Cancer starts when the DNA code within the cell’s nucleus becomes corrupted,” he says. “It seems frankincense has a re-set function. It can tell the cell what the right DNA code should be.
“Frankincense separates the ‘brain’ of the cancerous cell – the nucleus – from the ‘body’ – the cytoplasm, and closes down the nucleus to stop it reproducing corrupted DNA codes.”
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Dr Suhail (who is originally from Iraq) has teamed up with medical scientists from the University of Oklahoma for the task.
In his laboratory in Salalah, he extracts the essential oil from locally produced frankincense. Then, he separates the oil into its constituent agents, such as Boswellic acid.
“There are 17 active agents in frankincense essential oil,” says Dr Suhail. “We are using a process of elimination. We have cancer sufferers – for example, a horse in South Africa – and we are giving them tiny doses of each agent until we find the one which works.”
“Some scientists think Boswellic acid is the key ingredient. But I think this is wrong. Many other essential oils – like oil from sandalwood – contain Boswellic acid, but they don’t have this effect on cancer cells. So we are starting afresh.”
The trials will take months to conduct and whatever results come out of them will take longer still to be verified. But this is a blink of the eye in the history of frankincense.
Nine thousand years ago, Omanis gathered it and burnt it for its curative and cleansing properties. It could be a key to the medical science of tomorrow.
Here is the list _http://www.biosourcenaturals.com/essential-oils-about.htm of other essential oils that combine well with frankincense. Interestingly enough, Rose Geranium is one of the them. I don't have one particular link about it yet, but I tried it myself and as a remedy for my daughter, and I can tell it's maybe one of most important oils for alleviating pain, promoting well being and as a deterrent to harmful insects (lice, is one example).
If you, voyager, will decided to experiment with mixing, I think the final preparation as a remedy for your dog shouldn't have any perceptible smell at all. It's just when you inhale the air while trying to smell the final mixture, you will have certain feelings in your body. Pleasant or unpleasant that will guide you if it's a good mixture or not. It is also, maybe, useful to try the combinations on yourself first. This way, you can use much larger amount of essential oil in comparison to the carrier oil (if the final fragrance is pleasant, is a way to go), and then dilute it, until you can't smell it at all.
There also a question of how color of the plant, bark, or resin influences the medicinal properties of the essential oil that is extracted from it. I just started reading Goethe "Theory of Colours" _http://archive.org/stream/goethestheoryco01goetgoog#page/n10/mode/2up in relation to the article on SoTT page here http://www.sott.net/article/266825-8000-year-old-evidence-of-human-activity-found-in-Alps and the articles from the links provided inside. It's all not clear yet, but so exciting! Color, light, tone (as in tone wood), sound frequency, even spinning that was mentioned several times by C's.
That's all for now. I'll look into it further. My best wishes to All of you. And big and warm hugs!
At least your companions will spend what ever time they have left surrounded by those who love them very much.
This is a new vet for me and so far I'm not that impressed. They gave me a hard time about the raw diet and that the risk of bacteria exposure from my dogs wasn't worth it. I will look for a holistic vet in the area as you did.
