Essential Oils Back to My Rescue!

Happy Friday everyone!

My Young Living Essential Oils came to my rescue yet again this past week!

I recently received a pocket guide to essential oils and it is full of amazing information! The book is: "Essential Oils pocket reference, sixth edition" by Life Science Publishing.

Thankfully, I received the pocket guide, because this past week, I started to get a really awful sore throat. I knew it was a cold coming on, so I figured there was something I could do with my oils to help prevent it from getting worse.

I looked up my essential oils and decided to use thieves, lemon, and purification oils. 

I applied a couple drops of purification as well as a couple drops of lemon oil on my neck about every 4-6 hours. I grabbed my thieves oil and put a drop (just one drop) in a hot cup of tea. I just kept drinking nothing but water and hot tea with a drop of thieves oil. On top of that, I had the thieves oil in the diffuser.

As I was reading the pocket guide is I thought it was cool that it explained how thieves oil got its name. According to the Essential Oils pocket reference, sixth edition book, thieves oil got its name based on legends of thieves that would rub oils on themselves to avoid getting the plague as they robbed the bodies of the dead and dying. 

I was wondering previously about why it is called thieves oil, and now I know! Pretty interesting, huh?

With ingredients such as: clove, lemon, cinnamon bark, eucalyptus radiata, and rosemary, it's no surprise that thieves oil is considered anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-infectious.

In the past, I would have turned to cough drops, and sore throat spray. I also never would have thought twice about checking the ingredients in cough drops and sore throat spray. Of course, I had to look up the ingredients in those!

Halls honey-lemon cough drops "active ingredient is 9.1 mg menthol, and the inactive ingredients include: eucalyptus oil, FD&C blue 1, flavors, glucose syrup, honey, beta carotene, soy lecithin, sucralose, sucrose, and water." (http://www.gethalls.com/products/halls/halls_df.aspx).

Chloraseptic Sore Throat spray includes: "active ingredients: phenol 1.4% and inactive ingredients include: FD&C Red #40, flavors, glycerin, purified water, sodium chloride, sodium citrate, sodium saccharin, and sucralose." (http://www.chloraseptic.com/sore-throat-medicine/sore-throat-spray/cherry/).

Yuck, am I right?!?

So, after a few days of a really bad sore throat, it ended up dissolving way more quickly than it would have if I had gone with the cough drops and sore throat spray. In fact, I know it would have spread into a full fledged cold. Ain't nobody got time for that!   ;)
Now I can actually enjoy my weekend! Yay!

I'm truly in awe of the Young Living Essential Oils. It's pretty amazing how much I have incorporated the oils into my daily life already, and I just started using them!

Question Time:

* Would you try Young Living Essential Oils to help get rid of a cold?

* What do you normally do to help get rid of a sore throat & cold?