My personal experiences using YL products.

1. I prefer to use Ylang Ylang, geranium, Joy blend or lavender essential oils as my underarm deodorant. When I first started using the oils, in December 2001, I heard that Ylang Ylang essential oil is good as an underarm deodorant. It apparently helps to balance the male and female energies, is good for the heart and also the hair. It also smells divine, and I decided to try it.

After a short time though, I got a large lump under my arm. I went to see my friend who is a CNP and her MD advisor and they believed it was a boil and it would either go away or need to be cut out.

I would have agreed with them, before Young Living came into the picture. But I have been told by a massage CMT that my lymphatic system was very clogged, because I had not been able to move my neck and arms much for the previous three years. My 100% faith in the healing power of these oils made me apply more oils, rather than stop using them. I wanted them to pull more toxins out, in the quickest time possible. I used frankincense, lavender and geranium as well as ylang ylang. Over the next five months, the one boil/lump turned into six smaller lumps with heads and then into a rash that covered my underarm, went one third way down my side, and onto the edge of my breast. Eventually, it all cleared up and has never returned. What a wonderful cleansing. Imagine what all that gunk would be doing if it was still inside me.

2. In 2001 a bone spur lump started protruding from the palm side knuckle area of my left hand, pointer finger. It kept getting more and more pointy and protruding to a point where I thought that if it did not stop it would surely end up poking through my skin. It hurt to turn a doorknob or carry bags or putting any pressure on it. I showed an MD and a Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP) and their conclusion was that cutting it out was really the only option. I had read that R.C. essential oil blend was good if applied topically for removing bone spurs. I tried it and noticed this thing soften and flatten, soften and flatten until it disappeared completely within six weeks. I did not apply the oil every day, and occasionally I used frankincense or Thieves blend. If I did a raindrop (see Essential Oils Desk Reference under Recommended Reading for explanation) on someone, then those oils would be on my hands also. But mainly I purposefully rubbed the R.C. into it. When I showed the CNP, she was astounded.

3. Jeffrey, a friend of mine, reports that to remove any type of pain the following combination works wonders: Valor blend, wintergreen, Panaway, and then peppermint layered one on top of the other – in that order. I can vouch for this also. It is great for what I call computer wrist pain, and also for pain in the finger joints, neck, head or anywhere.

4. In 2003 I decided to get rid of a skin tag I had under my right arm. I put oregano, lavender and V6 blend oils on it every day for two months. It turned black, shriveled up and fell off. I still have it in a bottle if you wish to check it out! I told my friend Mr. W. about it and he did the same thing for a mole on his neck. His also disappeared. No scar remained, because of the lavender oil.

5. Another friend and I did a Lions Cub Health Fair on Saturday 11/9/2002. Our booth was next to a blood pressure booth. My friend had her blood pressure taken, (she is in her 70’s). Then she decided to do an experiment. She rubbed some Di-tone blend on her stomach, as she had recently had a cup of coffee. Naughty naughty. She then rubbed Peace and Calming blend on her heart, wrists and forehead. It was five minutes later that she had her blood pressure taken again. It had dropped 6 points. She and the staff were amazed. Half an hour later an elderly woman had her blood pressure taken and my friend asked her if she would like to have her results lowered. She agreed to do the experiment also. She used only the Peace and Calming blend, and her blood pressure dropped five points.

6. On 11/9/2002, one of my taste buds on the front of my tongue swelled up and became really painful. I put Purification oil blend on it, probably 7 or 8 times in 5 minute increments. It went down and never came back. Purification oil has also prevented my cold sores from going beyond the first stage of swelling and tickling.

7. One of the burners on our electric stove has not worked for many months. I had bought a new part for it and turned it on to see if it worked. I then did something else in the kitchen. Next I looked over and it was still black but it was also sticking up because the part didn’t fit properly. I pushed on it as hard as I could to put it into its correct position and then yelled. It was on and it was hot. It burnt a lovely pattern of the coils into my hand. After three or four weeks of applying lavender, melaleuca alternifolia, and frankincense oils directly onto the burnt skin and also spraying LavaDerm spray onto it, it completely healed with no scars, as if it had never happened.

8. Here is a long story about my throat.

When I became pregnant with my first child in 1981, I also became nauseous 24 hours a day and vomited every day for all nine months. As soon as Anjana was born, all this went away. However, I continued to have a terrible gag reflex when ever I brushed my teeth or put anything too far back in my mouth.

This condition of nausea and vomiting repeated itself for the next three pregnancies. By the time I had my fourth child Sarathi in 1993, I was having to wear pads every day, as I would pee when ever I coughed or sneezed or jumped etc.

After the car accident in 1998, I began to have problems in my throat. In the beginning, every now and then the first or second or third mouthful of food would get stuck in my throat, and I would have to vomit it out before I could continue eating. By 2001 this was happening nearly every day. After I started using the Young Living Essential Oils I noticed that this condition was slowly improving, happening less and less. It improved to the point where it only happened occasionally. and I could control it by rubbing oils directly onto my throat. The oils relaxed the throat, reduced the swelling and allowed me to swallow the food.

Everything was great until about August of 2004 when a small cough started, along with a bright red patch on my throat, in the spot where the food would always get stuck. The cough continued for three to four months. It got so bad that I could not talk at all without coughing. I could not leave my home as the amount of pee that kept coming out made it impossible to go anywhere without flooding my pants. I had to wear towels to bed, and lie on baby bedwetting sheets. As was usual for me, I kept putting on lots and lots of oils. The bright red rash on my throat spread to most of my throat and down the middle of my chest. It was itchy and became a rash that eventually peeled. I knew I was being cleansed of something coming out through my skin. I used a wide variety of oils plus Berry Young Juice, Stanley Burroughs Master Cleanser drink and many Young Living nutritional supplements.

Towards the end of this ordeal, I found that dropping one or two drops of Thieves oil, undiluted, on the back of my tongue and throat was what stopped the cough the best. Finally, after the rash and peeling skin healed, so did the cough. Amazingly, guess what else was healed? After wearing pads to catch my pee every day for over 11 years, I no longer have to wear them. This was big – this was a major cleanse!

While it was happening, whenever I spoke to my family members in Australia and other people, they would always say: I thought the oils worked, I thought the oils kept you from getting sick, etc. etc. Why don’t you use the oils to get well? The fact is, that is exactly what I was doing and will continue to do for the rest of my life. Three years of cleansing a body that has been filled with toxins every day for over forty years is not enough. I feel as though I am getting younger now, instead of older. Trust these oils. Let them do their work and your life will be transformed. Trust the Young Living products, and use them all. The price you pay for them is a steal.

9. I have found that my inner ears have become bigger, cleaner, and I can hear better by doing this: I use a separate q-tip for each ear. I roll the q-tip on the edge of a bottle of either lavender or melaleuca alternifoila, until it is soaking with the oil, and then swish it around in my ears a little and leave it in for about 10 minutes each day. I have been doing this for over a year and a half. I have always felt partially deaf in my left ear, as if it were clogged up and needed to be cleaned out from deep down in it. I have done candling often, but have found that after using the oils, I finally feel like my ears are clear. During this process, because of my neck condition after the car accident, (read about this under MY STORY), I have gone thru three short stints where my inner ears did swell up. I believe this was a cleansing, as there was no damage to my ears and in fact they have improved: the first time a lot, the second time less and third time not much. I had poured undiluted oil of lavender or melaleuca alternifolia directly in to my ear though, before each of these swelling reactions. I DO NOT ADVISE you to pour undiluted oil directly into your ear, dilute itwith the Young Living V6 oil just to help soften any build up before candling.

I have also massaged a lot of oils like Thieves, Panaway, lavender, lemongrass, peppermint, around my ears, on the outside, to help with pain from my neck injury that effects my jaw and ears. I believe this has also helped with my hearing and is probably why I had the swollen ears, to get rid of built up lymph etc. I do not believe this would happen to everyone. These oils are also good for any type of ear ache if you rub them around the ear, and only put them on a cottonball to put in the ear. I have used oils on the outside of the ear for my kids who have very occasionally had swimmers’ ear, and it has taken away the pain and clogged feeling without putting any oils into the ear. I know of many other people who have helped their children’s ear aches in this same way, using either Thieves, Panaway, lavender, melaleuca alternifolia or peppermint

10. Three reasons why I have chosen to use natural healing methods rather than pharmaceutical drugs or poisons like insecticides for mine, and my family’s health care.

(a) Disheartened with MD’s prescriptions

In 1975-76 – about a year after I had started working in a bank -I was feeling down a lot. I felt like I was not balanced and this might be caused by poor nutrition. I felt that it was was affecting my brain, which was making me feel this way. (I did no,t however, even consider that the fact that I had starting drinking and occasionally smoking a number of years earlier was probably what caused the imbalance in the first place). I was about 18 and so decided to go to the doctor. I was a little disheartened to find out that doctors don’t deal with the whole body/mind issues with nutrition. Instead, he gave me a prescription for a drug and I started using it. As that was nearly thirty years ago, I do not remember the brand name, but I do remember the affect it had on me, because I nearly got fired from my job. What it did was tomake me very tired, so that not only would I go to work and fall asleep at my desk, but it also made me not care that I was doing that. After being told to smarten up, I went back to the doctor and asked if he had another way of helping me. He said he did not. I had no alternative but to look elsewhere, as one thing I did know was that my ‘feeling down’ was not due to a lack of a man-made, mind-altering drugs. Now of course I realize it was probably due to the toxic effects of alcohol and cigarettes among other things. After this experience I started meditating, became vegetarian, and stopped smoking and drinking. It was only natural that when I started having kids, I tried out different forms of healing and found that what worked best for me was Chinese herbs and acupuncture.

(b) Why Pain Medication makes pain worse. During the recovery period after the car accident, I would visit different types of healers. The accident happened in Oregon, so when we moved to New York I had to find a whole new array of healers. I had gotten to the point where I was working as a teachers’ aid in a school so that my son would get his tuition paid for. However, driving was one thing that aggravated my neck. The school was 55 minutes drive away. So I had to continually have treatments for my neck and back just so I could continue working. At one point, a chiropractor used an unconventional method on my neck, and put it out so much I could hardly function. It was after that that I could no longer drive, or put on my socks and shoes and underwear. My husband had to go grocery shopping with me as I couldn’t drive or lift anything at all. I was unable to think clearly, etc. etc. It was probably as bad as it had been straight after the accident, but in a different way. To be able to continue to work at the school, (which was nearly over for the summer, thank goodness), I had to resort to pain medications. I started with Tylenol then quickly moved to Advil. I had to up the dose every week till it was double the dose allowed in a 24 hour, period. After this I realized what I was doing and knew I could not continue on this way. I did not want to resort to prescribed medications, which was the next step. I realized that while I was not taking the pain-relieving medicine I was able to feel whether the movements I was making with my body were either helping or hindering my condition. The drugs however, caused me to be cut off from my body and I was therefore unable to feel whether what I was doing and even what the healers were doing was helping or hindering me. Obviously, what I was doing was aggravating my condition and therefore making it worse and therefore I needed more medication, which my body was also getting used to and so these two factors created the situation of needing to up the dosage or pain killing meds.

At this point was when I lay on my bed and prayed to God to help me know what to do next, as I did not know what to do. I just knew I could not continue on as I was, and have a life.

(c) Ants

May 2005. We have had so many ants, and I mean big black ants, crawling around in our house, it is horrible. Anyway, I had put undiluted peppermint oil around the house in certain places but it did not stop them. Then I read an email about how someone had experimented with oils and bugs and how after they added the oils to water they became like an insecticide. So I put a lot of peppermint oil into a spray bottle with water and sprayed all over the floors and around the doors and windows etc. in my house. Now I see one ant every few weeks.

11. Saucepans – I have been looking at the titanium saucepans sold thru Young Living for three years now and I just decided to order one. The reason I decided to was because I am constantly burning saucepans and having to buy new ones. I had heard that these saucepans do not warp or burn. Food does not get stuck on them. Eggs can be cooked with oil or water or anything. After buying my first saucepan, I cannot believe how much more fun cooking is. I cannot believe I waited so long to buy them. I have since another one and will continue until I have the whole set. They are the best saucepans I have ever used. And I bought a whole set of very expensive saucepans when I lived in Australia, that I did not bring with me to the U.S. but they were nothing compared to these. They are well worth the money. They are not like teflon which is toxic to the body and comes off into the food. Plus they look sharp, and have clear glass lids. See a picture at the bottom of the list of my Recommended Products on my Y.L. home page.

12. If I am having trouble getting to sleep because I have eaten too much acidic food, I drink some Alkalime in a small amount of water before I hit the sack. I also put some Joy, Harmony, Lavender, Ylang Ylang, Dream Catcher or Cedarwood oils on my face and forehead with some Di-Tone around my belly button and I have a peaceful nights rest.

13. I have used the Twelve oils of Ancient Scripture kit a number of times when all else fails to get the results I am looking for. I believe this kit can heal anything.
The following are some ways I have used it.

(a) As you have probably read under MY STORY, you know I was a passenger in a car accident in November of 1998. During the three years before I was introduced to Young Living Essential Oils, my state of health deteriorated. Because I could no longer sleep, I became very tired. I could no longer exercise, as just moving any part of my body affected my neck and shoulder. I stopped cooking and juicing and my husband had to come grocery shopping with me because picking up objects really aggravated my neck. I could not think straight or remember things. This all led to depression and feelings of uselessness. Our diet became a lot of junk food. So because I was not eating well, or exercising, my digestive system suffered. It became like I had a big black hole that I could not feel down there. After using the oils for nearly a year, which helped my memory, my self-confidence, my spirit become uplifted, etc. I chose to overcome my fear of giving a presentation, so I asked my friend Nandini to if she would assist me in doing one at a church on the ‘Twelve Oils of Ancient Scripture’ kit. I wanted to experience this kit of oils for myself so I could speak from my experience. I also knew I had to awaken my digestive system that felt non-existent at the time. I chose to anoint my whole stomach, plus up the center of my chest and onto my throat with the kit of oils while sending love there. I used all twelve oils, one after the other. I did this every night for two months before that, my first presentation. It truly woke up my digestive system while at the same time my confidence and memory improved.

(b) After my daughter left to go live in England, I started driving her car, which is a stick shift. I had driven automatics for so long, my left foot and leg (also being weakened from the accident and lack of exercise) was not used to the pressure needed. Not just to drive the car but also, to actually start the car, one has to push as hard as one can on the clutch to activate some mechanism that will allow the engine the turn over. After a period of time, the ball area of my foot began to hurt and I noticed my neck started going out of place way more often. I used a variety of oils on it, but had to continue using the car, as it was my only source of transportation. After a number of months, my arch also hurt, and then it also went to my heel. I literally had to stop driving unless it was absolutely necessary and could hardly walk. I tried different types of shoes etc. and found some were better than others, but it became painful, even when I was not walking. I remembered that the Ancient Scripture oils were so good last time I used them, that I would use them under my foot and see what happened. After massaging two full kits of oils into the bottom of my foot, I can drive again. It still feels a bit sore if I do long trips, like two or three or six hours of driving, but it is certainly not like it had been and I feel the oils definitely healed the situation.

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My husband Bill’s experiences using YL products.

1. My husband and I were driving a long distance at night in the rain and both were finding it hard to stay awake. Peppermint oil across the hair line of the forehead and on the temples and Melissa Essential Water sprayed directly on our faces woke us up and kept us going. We have used this combo a number of times.

2. Protec blend massaged into the male organ works well for both all round prevention and healing of many problems. One gentlemen was diagnosed early with some prostate issues. Using this oil every day along with many other oils and products healed him of it. If you would like me to introduce you to him via phone or email let me know.

3. Shaving: Instead of using toxic shaving cream, morning start bath and shower gel not only works wonderfully for those beards and moustaches, it also smells great. Plain lavender oil also works well.

4. As a building contractor who renovates old homes, my husband is exposed to a lot of nasty stuff when he is doing demolition work.

Recently, in March 2005, he was telling me that one of his guys had to quit because the black mold was getting to his asthma even though he was wearing a respirator mask. Suddenly I had a great idea: Why doesn’t he add de-molding a house into each job? He needs to protect himself, his workers and of course, the homeowners themselves from the toxic effects of mold.

He decided to try it out. He had his guys add Purification oil to their masks and had them spray 2 full bottles (one each day for two days) of Thieves Household Cleaner, undiluted, on to the underside of the home’s first floor joists and plywood layer (approx. 800 sq. ft). Also, once each day for two days, they used a mixture of water and a whole bottle of Purification oil in the empty Thieves Household Cleaner bottle. He also kept the heat on.

This helped with the quality of air so much, that when the homeowners came two weeks later, the first thing they said was, “Wooh! It smells good in here. There’s no more mold smell anymore.” They were very happy.

I am very happy also, but I wish we had known about these products years ago. My husband has been doing this for over 20 years.

5. We live in a house that has carpet in the finished basement. It gets very dusty and the air is sort of thick. Before I knew about the oils, I used a dehumidifier and whenever I emptied it I was dismayed by the condition of the water, as it was very murky. After I found YLEO, I bought a cold air diffuser and ran it downstairs in the basement. I used either lemon or Purification oils, as they are the cheapest, smell good, and work really well. I was amazed and happy when I went to empty the dehumidifyer after diffusing oils. The water was crystal clear, I felt like I could easily drink it (though I did not!). This was blatant proof that the oils clean the air and kill nasty bugs in it.

See diffusers on my Young Living web site, home page, recommended products list. It is located near the bottom of the list. Also great to diffuse oils in the bedroom of a sick person, (lemon, Thieves, Purification or Exodus) or someone who finds it difficult to sleep, (lavender or Peace and Calming).

Summer2003/Protruding Veins disappear.

6. My husband has had large swellings in the calf of his left leg for as long as I have known him. They have slowly gotten larger over time. Obviously they were protruding veins but they didn’t show the purplish colour through the skin. After we started using Young Living Essential Oils he started applying neat (Undiluted) helicrysm oil. I also gave his legs and back the Raindrop Oils treatment every month or so. Sometimes I used the ‘Essential 7’ kit or the ‘Twelve Oils of Ancient Scripture’ kit instead of the ‘Raindrop’ kit oils. About one and a half years later in the summer oif 2003, while he was at work, he felt an incredible pain in his leg, so much so that he could hardly drive home. He was unable to work (he is self-employed) for a number of weeks because of the pain. We kept applying oils, like Panaway, the Twelve Oils of Ancient Scripture and the Raindrop Kit oils. A black oval the size of his calf stayed for a number of weeks. Eventually, the blackness gradually disappeared and he was able to walk again. Here is the miracle. All the lumps on his leg were no longer visible. When I rubbed my finger over the area, I could feel deep in there, there were some very small things, maybe just regular veins or arteries etc. or maybe something else, but mainly it was smooth. We both believe this was a major healing of his over twenty year old, protruding vein problem.

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Anjana and her friend Erica, at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
This photo is here to honor Erica, who died in January 2004.

How my daughter Anjana uses YL products. She turned 23 this year of 2005.

1. Anjana was already attending college when I was introduced to Young living Essential Oils. I decided to make up a first-aid kit for her that would cover just about any problem that may arise when one is living in a small enclosed space with other people, and using communal bathrooms, etc. Also, to help in the prevention of problems

The following are the instructions I gave her with the kit:

She kept the oils in beautiful cloth bags (item codes – 16 bottles # 3851 and 30 bottles # 3847) that protect the oils. These are available from my Young Living Essential Oils website.

CEDARWOOD
Rub between eyebrows for deep sleep. Releases melatonin from pineal gland. Also good for face skin. Use with Peace and Calming if need extra relaxation.

THIEVES
Rub on throat for sore throat, under feet for immune system, chest for congestion, cold, flu or directly on infection. Rub around ears for earache. Use finger to rub directly onto gums for tooth ache. Use to steralize hands after using public bathroom.

R.C.
Respiratory congestion: 6 drops in left hand, rub clockwise 3 times, cover face with hands keeping eyes open. Breath in. Stinging is O.K. Or rub on chest and throat. Alternate with RAVEN as R.C. is deep and penetrating and Raven is soothing.

DI-TONE
For any upset tummy condition. Rub a lot around naval area morning and evening or whenever needed. Or drink one drop in water.

PURIFICATION
Cleanses cuts, neutralizes poisons from bug bits if applied directly on it, spray around room for air purifying, or diffuse. Apply directly on cold sores.

LAVENDER
Any skin problem, cut, burn, scrap, acne, etc. Rub under feet or on face to help sleep. Freshens air in room, anti-inflammatory. Use with frankincense for added effect.

LEMON
Drink in water for digestive aid. Rub on for sore throat. Builds immune system, increases circulation. improves memory if smelt while studying and then during test.

YLANG YLANG
Use as underarm deodorant. Balances male and female energy. Great for blood, heart and hair.

IMMUPOWER
Rub under bottom of feet alternating or with Thieves oil as a preventative for illness. If ill, rub under feet until better. Strengthens and supports immune system.

BRAINPOWER
Dissolves petro-chemicals clogging receptor sites. Clears brain fog, helps immune system, retards aging. Wear on back of neck, throat, under nose or inside upper palate of mouth or inside of cheeks.

LIP BALM
Dry lips, apply on lips when ever they need it. Contains cinnamon essential oil.

ORANGE
Lifts depression, aids digestion, muscle soreness. Tastes great in water so drink instead of soda, alternate for flavour tangerine, spearmint, peppermint, lemon, or grapefruit.

VALOR
Empowers spiritual and physical bodies, instills fearlessness. Apply to wrists, feet, chest, neck or spine. Drink a few drops in water for a more powerful action. Excellent for face skin.

PEPPERMINT
Excellent for pain – on temples or apply where-ever pain is, so long as there is no broken skin. Rub under feet for fever or to cool down on a hot day or while playing sports. Drink in water while playing sports. One drop = 26 cups of peppermint tea. Use for stuffed-up nose as well. Also great to rub on temples in the morning to wake up.

FRANKINCENSE
Considered to cure all men’s/women’s ailments.

MELALEUCA ALTERNIFOLIA
For acne. Use with lavender and or frankincense. Use on any skin condition. Clean out ears with this oil soaking the end of a q-tip.

PANAWAY
Rub on to any painful area to prevent swelling, bruising and pain. Good for bug bites also.

2. Anjana called from college just before Thanksgiving of 2002. She had a couple of warts on her foot that had started hurting. I told her to use frankincense oil and see if that would help. She came home at Christmas time reporting that one wart was completely gone and the other was nearly all gone. It disappeared shortly after Christmas.

3. My daughter now lives in another country. After being there for a few months a problem arose that she had not experienced before. Maybe due to changes in food, water, air, etc. who knows. Anyway, she called feeling very sick. She had very bad cramps and her body could not stop shaking. She could not move from the position she was in. I send her Berry Young Juice and all the other YL products every month and so I told her to drink ½ a bottle of BYJ. She said she only had ¼ bottle left. I told her to add some water to it and drink it all. She had run out of the oils I suggested, so I said to rub whatever oils she felt like, one on top of the other, around her belly button, and to use a hot pack after that. I called her after a number of hours but there was no answer. She called back more hours later and reported that she had drunk ¼ bottle BYJ and rubbed lavender, Peace and Calming, peppermint and some other oils on and then fallen asleep for two hours. She was now calling me feeling 100% better, while having dinner in a restaurant with a group of friends.

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My Son Madhava’s experiences. He turned 20 in 2004.

1. At the end of 2001, just after I had gotten into YL Essential Oils, Madhava was bitten by a cat on the back side of his hand and knuckles. No one was home so he washed it with hydrogen peroxide, then went with some friends to a sleep over. He visited a variety of places the next day including the home of a Certified Nurse Practitioner (C.N.P.) and an M.D. Both of them recommended antibiotics and rabies shots, as it had swollen up and become very red half way up his arm. I did not see him or even know about it until the afternoon of the next day. We immediately started soaking it in hot water that had a number of drops of Thieves blend oil mixed in with it. After he had soaked it, we generously applied Thieves directly onto the entire area, undiluted. I wanted him to do this three or four times a day, but he only had time to do it twice a day. Within five days there was no more evidence of the bite, except for very minor puncture wounds. I advised he put lavender oil on them to prevent scarring but he did not want to.

2. Before Young Living, Madhava used BRUT underarm deodorant, because when we lived in Oregon, someone came to his school with a bag full of goodies for each kid, and it was one of the goodies. After we got into Young Living he admitted to me that the smell of the BRUT actually made him feel sick. We had been told that the Dentarome toothpaste worked really well as an underarm deodorant as well. We all gave it a try and it did work. Madhava loved it and to this day still uses it even though YL now has created Aromaguard underarm deodorant.

3. Madhava’s college roommate this year liked to wear a particular cologne that Madhava could not tolerate the smell of. He asked his friend if he would be willing to throw it away in exchange for any one of his oils. His friend liked Peace and Calming blend the best and so now uses that exclusively.

4. Another of his roommates woke up with a lump on his neck. Madhava offered him some oils but he was not interested. After a few days of trying other things, he agreed to use the Thieves oil with peppermint and thyme. The next morning it was gone, and he was happy.

5. Madhava went to a private boarding high school for two years and so took a first aid kit of oils with him. He is in college now and still uses this kit. See details of this kit under Anjana’s link.

6. In his senior year of high school Madhava tried out rubbing Immupower and Thieves under his feet every night as a protection from illness. It worked. Even if his roommate was sick, he did not get ill. The year before he was sick quite often. He did not use the oils much that previous year as we had just gotten into them.

7. Madhava has 2 bottles of Berry Young Juice delivered via autoship every month to his college dorm. Madhava is vegetarian but doesn’t like the quality of the fresh or cooked food at the college. He finds that drinking this helps to keep him more alkaline and gives him the energy and brain power he needs even with the lack of proper nutrition from the college menu.

8. See and hear Madhava’s band in my COOL LINKS.

9. Madhava says to feel really high and full of life, he rubs peppermint oil on his forehead, Thieves blend on his throat and Immupower blend on his wrists at the same time.

10. In the summer of 2003 Madhava went to the beach with some friends for a few days and came home bright red, really badly sunburned. He could not wear a shirt or be touched. He couldn’t lie down. LavaDerm spray worked wonders. We used a couple of bottles. When I was able I rubbed lavender oil directly on him and some fresh Aloe plant leaf gel from my Aloe plant. Without that spray I do not know what he would have been like, it healed him so quickly and cleanly. He peeled, but not as much as he would have without LavaDerm spray and lavender essential oil.

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Eric Aditi’s experiences. Eric turned 16 in 2004.

Eric also takes a first aid kit of oils to school with him, (See kit details under Anjana’s link). All three kids use YL personal care products exclusively: soap, shampoo, face creams, toothpaste, mouthwash, etc.

1. When he was 13, Eric got flu-like symptoms and really sore tonsils. It was around the same time that Sarathi was diagnosed with tonsilitis. I gave Eric a Raindrop session, had him put Thieves on his throat, swallow a capsule full of lemon oil and drink lemon oil in water. He was nearly 100% better the next day. If I had Y.L. mouthwash I would have had him gargle with it, but you use what you have at the time.

2. Eric goes to Boy Scout summer camp every year. Summer of 2002 was the first year we had the oils for this camp. Eric was resistant about putting oils in his first aid kit. I finally got him to agree to take one oil. Purification. This is a great insect repellent, and if you get a bug bite, to help with the itching and swelling. It is good for just purifying anything.

He called me towards the end of the week and reported that so many people were using ‘OFF’ bug repellent spray on their bodies, clothes, tents, picnic tables etc. that the air smelt like ‘OFF’. This made him feel sick in the stomach and gave him a headache. He had learnt which plants repel insects and so had placed these at each corner of his tent. He then went into his tent and got the Purification oil blend out of his first aid kit and lay on his bed smelling it. He said it took away the sick feeling in his stomach and his headache as well. He was never bitten by any insect that week.

3. Eric gets two Berry Young Juices sent directly to his school via autoship each month also. After winter break his order took a few weeks to get there so he did not have any, for a while. He reported that he could not concentrate in class as well and even was falling asleep. He is a drummer and said that his drumming skills deteriorated without his supply of energy and nutrition. Boarding school food is not the best food for you. But he loves it there anyway.

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My son Sarathi’s experiences. He turned 11 in 2004.

Beginning of 2002.

1. Sarathi had a sore throat so I decided I would go to a doctor to get a diagnosis to see what I was dealing with and to have proof of his condition. The doctor took a swab from his mouth and diagnosed ‘strep throat.’ He then gave a prescription for antibiotics. I went to my friend who is a C.N.P. and she said that one must do a test before ‘strep throat’ could be diagnosed. She did the test and said it was tonsilitis, not strep throat. This was confirmed when I rang the doctor back three days later and asked if the test showed Sarathi did indeed have strep throat, or not. He did not.

Anyway the treatment I gave would have been the same either way. I gave him one raindrop therapy treatment. (See Essential Oils Desk Reference or Raindrop Technique Booklet in my Recommended Reading for more info. or email me). I also generously applied Thieves oil blend onto his throat area, from ear to ear. (Some people may need this to be diluted with the V6 oil blend). I also had him drink Lemon essential oil in water. Within 5 days he was 100% recovered.

2. Sarathi had a filling in his tooth in 2000. In 2001 we found that the tooth had not been cleaned out properly by the dentist, and so an infection started under the filling. I took Sarathi back to the dentist, but he said we should go elsewhere because Sarathi would need a baby root canal and he did not do them. We did go elsewhere but we were advised to kill the infection with antibiotics before anything could be done. I did fill the prescription but Sarathi refused to try it. I did not want him to anyway, but still I gave him the option of drugs or oils. He chose oils. We decided to apply Thieves essential oil blend directly on his jaw line where the swelling was, three times a day. Once we applied Thyme and then V6 vegetable oil as thyme is a hot oil. We applied Oregano followed by V6 oil twice.

We also started using the Young Living Toothpaste called Dentarome Plus as it has Thieves oil in the toothpaste and it does NOT contain SLS, (Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, a known toxin to the body and eyes, and one reason there is a call Poison Control Center warning on toothpastes). See the Rub A Dub Dub Is Cancer In Your Tub? Booklet, for sale through my YL website, item code #3924. We all now use Dentarome Ultra.

In five days the swelling, pain and infection was gone. All applications were outside the mouth on the cheek jaw line and throat areas. When I told the dentist we used essential oil instead of antibiotics, he said: well, the body heals itself, and that’s what happened.

This saga continued. To cut a long story short, whatever they put in the root canal made Sarathi very ill. He got worse and worse for a year and a half until I could find a wholistic dentist who would remove the tooth. The other dentist refused to, saying it was not the problem.

The wholistic dentist had some trouble getting the tooth out as it broke off and Sarathi ended up needing stitches. Even though I am grateful to this dentist, he sent us home with a few pieces of gauze to keep on the injured area until the blood stopped flowing and advised to have him take tylenol or something for the pain. We put Panaway on the area, but because he did not want to brush his teeth, after a few days the top of the gum started smelling and looked like it was getting infected. We had just gotten some of the YL mouthwash and so Sarathi was happy to swish this around in his mouth a couple of times a day. When we returned to have the stitches pulled out, five days later, the dentist was very impressed with the quality of healing in his mouth. He was not interested in hearing about the toothpaste or mouthwash though. Sarathi’s state of health returned immediately to a level that proved the tooth was the culprit. It has continued to improve since then.

3. Sarathi was working with a metal sun-dial to keep time one day. While waiting for the sun to move he decided to jump around and landed on the point of the dial with his heel. It penetrated quite deeply and bled quite a bit. It hurt so much he agreed to let me drop some Panaway essential oil blend directly on to the puncture wound. Within minutes the pain and bleeding had stopped and with a sock on he could walk around nearly normally. The next day after a few more Panaway applications it was perfect.

Sarathi dictated these stories to me:

4. “One day in April 2005 I got a headache and I wasn’t feeling very well. So I lay down in my mum’s bed. But laying down wasn’t helping very much. My mum had given me some water and then brought in some oils and asked me where it was hurting. She put Valor oil on my temples, and then massaged Believe oil and Highest Potential oil into my forehead and then my head.

In one second after the oils were on me, I felt good. Ten minutes later it came back ¼ as bad. Then I had a five inch cup of Berry Young Juice. It went away and has not returned.

Thank you mum for giving me Young Living.”

5. “One day I found a wild kitten near our house, on the road. His right eye was shut with crusty eye puss all over it. I picked it up and brought it home and made a bed for it in a box. My mum and I added Thieves oil and Lavender oil to a bottle of Melissa Essential Water, and sprayed that over him in a fine mist five times a day. We also fed it kitten milk with a bottle. In three days, its eye was better and we let it go back to its mother. Now it is grown up.”