Essential Oil Remedies and Natural Medicine
- Severe head/neck tension relief: Try combining a few drops of lavender oil and peppermint oil and apply to temples to help with headaches and migraines.
- Reduce cough or sinusitis: Eucalyptus oil is known for its powerful ability to fight coughs and open airways. Add a few drops into steaming hot water or diffuser. Inhale to help clear nasal passage.
- Repair broken bones: To support healing of broken bones, apply helichrysum, fir and cypress essential oils.
- Heal burns: Mix lavender oil with aloe vera to treat burns.
- Soothe bug bites: Use lavender oil for bug bites and stings.
- Improve digestion; Take ginger oil, peppermint oil and fennel essential oil to support digestion and healing leaky gut.
- Difficulty breathing and seasonal threats remedy: Make a homemade vapor rub by combining eucalyptus, peppermint and coconut oil. Rub on your chest and neck.
- Treat bruises; Use essential oils as a hot compress to treat bruises or other wounds. Add five drops of lavender and five drops of frankincense to four ounces of hot water and soak. Apply to affected area.
- Improve concentration: Inhale bergamot, grapefruit or peppermint oil to increase concentration during the day.
- Sore feet soak: Add 10 drops of peppermint oil with a tablespoon of Epson salt and add to a warm-water foot bath.
- Reduce teeth grinding: Massage 1-3 drops of lavender on the bottom of the feet and behind ears before bed.
- Relieve PMS: Mix two drops of sage, basil and rosemary, then apply to a warm, moist hand towel and apply to abdomen.
- Skin imperfection cream: To treat eczema, psoriasis or red dry skin, apply a mixture of lavender essential oil with shea butter.
- Improve circulation: Add 8-10 drops of grapefruit essential oil to warm bath water.
- Relieve hangover symptoms: Add six drops each of juniper berry, cedarwood, grapefruit, lavender, rosemary and lemon oil into a warm bath.
- Curb food cravings: Inhale peppermint and cinnamon oil to reduce your appetite and balance blood sugar.
- Energize your workout: Inhale peppermint oil before a workout to reduce fatigue.
- When you have increased temperature: Add 1-3 drops of eucalyptus, peppermint and lavender to a cool cloth and sponge the body.
- Relieve motion sickness: Use peppermint, lavender and ginger oil to reduce motion sickness.
- Relieve joint discomfort: Mix two drops of wintergreen, cypress and lemongrass into an unscented lotion. Massage into affected areas.
- Treat ringworm: Combine three drops of tea tree oil with coconut oil and massage over the affected area twice a day.
- Head lice cure: Mix three drops of thyme, lavender and eucalyptus oil with unscented oil and apply to scalp. Cover head with a shower cap and leave on for 30 minutes. Shampoo out.
- Heal blistered skin: Mix two drops of tea tree oil with two drops of unscented oil and apply to the blistered area up to five times per day.
- Soothe a sunburn: Combine lavender or chamomile oil with one tablespoon of coconut oil and apply to the skin with a cotton ball to reduce swelling and pain.
- Treat poison oak or poison ivy: Mix three drops of peppermint oil with unscented oil and apply to affected area.
- Lose weight: Combine grapefruit, ginger and cinnamon oil and take as a supplement three times daily to support metabolism.
- Boost immune system: Mix one drop of oregano oil with four drops of carrier oil and rub on the bottom of your feet before flying on a plane.
- Achy muscle rub: Mix eucalyptus, wintergreen and cypress with an unscented lotion or coconut oil and apply to muscles.
- Reduce morning sickness caused by pregnancy: Add a few drops of wild orange, lemon or ginger oil to a handkerchief and inhale.
- Relief from seasonal or environmental threats: Rub frankincense and lavender on your palms and inhale deeply to relieve itchy eyes and throat.
- Kick the ‘blues’ fast: Take three drops of oil of oregano and frankincense three daily for one week.
- Reduce back and neck discomfort: Combine peppermint, cypress and ginger oils with cayenne pepper and coconut oil for a homemade pain relieving muscle rub.
Essential Oils
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