Our body and essential oils interact in numerous ways. First, it gets to our skin where it is being absorbed. It breaks into our epithelial tissues which includes our skin, nasal passages, bronchioles, lungs and gastro-intestinal tract.
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Here is the recipe:

Follow These Simple Steps
to Make Your Own Natural Hand Sanitizer

1. In a small bowl, put one drop each of the following essential oils: cinnamon, clove, rosemary and eucalyptus.

2. Add five drops of lemon essential oil. Mix in 1 ounce of water and 1/2 teaspoon aloe vera gel (available at pharmacies and health food stores).

3. Store in an airtight container or a small travel-size bottle.

Note: Essential oils can be purchased online or at health food stores.
Alternative: Instead of purchasing the 5 separate essential oils, use 5 drops of the "Thieves" blend from Young Living Essential Oils (youngliving.com).

Dr. Rosen tells us more here: http://www.dienviro.com/index1.aspx?BD=18956

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I went to Dr. Rosen's blog but couldn't find the recipe. Am I blind or is the precise recipe proprietary? (I also failed to find the related article in the NYT.

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The Earth already has everything we need to be healthy, so why have we steered away from natural remedies?

I have never liked hand sanitizer since it smells horrible and it smears what dirt you may already have on your hands, makes them sticky which attracts more dirt.... iiieeeaaakkkk!

I will try thieves oil, no doubt!

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Faith C. My grandmother received a flu shot and contracted Guillon's Beret. She was paralysed from the neck down and died shortly after. My son had severe seizured following a Hep B Vaccine. As a result he has had a gammut of health issues, so please do some research on vaccines before you call anyone a bad mother. I stopped vaccinating my son and did some chelation therapy. His health has improved tremendously. We never vaccinated my daughter and she is as healthy as a horse. You have an immune system for a reason. Being exposed to Colds and Viruses is a good thing it helps to strengthen your immune system.

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I think that any mother who exposes her child to this flu should be charged with child abuse. These parties do not make any sense to me at all.

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Well Road, I have tried acupuncture, several times. It didn't work. I tried chiropractic repeatedly. It didn't work. Neither did herbal medicine. Now I am not going to claim that this experience totally invalidates these treaments. Neither would you I'm sure. But do you see that personal experience is a very poor guide to what really works? This is why we have science, to minimise bias in observations. It isn't a perfect system, but it's far better than relying on personal anecdotes.

Thanks Ann for the info on anti-viral effects. Interesting, but even more so if you can give me the journal citations so that I can look up the papers. These however are all in vitro studies, not even in animal models as far as I can see. Even though lab studies are needed before we can look at effects in humans, the problem is one of dosage and exposure. How do we know that the concentrations in the lab represent those obtainable when used on sick patients? The only way to find out is to test the stuff in humans.

Another question for you. Why do you think plants would evolve hundreds of chemicals that synergise to provide beneficial effects in humans?

Yes, it's very well known that there is publication bias in the journals, but your refs don't say how the pharma companies actually suppress research on `natural' remedies.

I mentioned religion as an allegory for arguments from faith and not from evidence. Although I have never been able to have a rational discussion with a religious be

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Les, I forgot to respond to your comment about Pubmed. No, they don't show outright ownership, of course not. Here are two links of "research" that show why the government finally stepped in and requires doctors or any other scientists to declare who they have ties to when they write their research. Even as a nurse, when I give aromatherapy talks, I am now required to disclose that I have potential financial gain due to my website where we sell essential oils. Even among doctors and other medical people they are questioning any of the research that's been done in the past 30 years because of this.

http://bit.ly/17xzsK
http://bit.ly/1u3HLw

Okay - I need to actually get some work done today LOL!

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For 'evidence', I would submit TRYING natural health modalities for some personal health challenge. Go to a very experienced, trained and intuitive health expert who has expertise with one or more modalities, such as Ayurveda, Herbs, Acupuncture, etc and then do whatever is outlined and learn all you can.

With the positive experience gained over a period of several months to a year, it will most likely convince one of the power and benefits of that modality... Then try another...

No scientific study, no matter how good, will substitute for that EXPERIENCE. Mental convincing with supposed scientific, double blind studies, is one thing..Having a positive life changing EXPERIENCE is quite another.

I am not putting down science, as long as it is open minded inquiry into truth.. What I have found too often though is that the 'science' that is out there is more about supporting a preconceived belief system. More often than not it also has GREED hooked into it. Everything else is largely dismissed, attacked or denied, even if there is science to back up what is being attacked.

I also do not mind debate, which is what science is supposed to be all about. Again, a lot of what is out there is more about vicious attacks by Big Pharma and FDA goon squads coming down on helpful people just trying to make a living with natural health modalities. . I am pointing at a monopoly, and its antics to try and completely control 100% of the market.

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Rats - out of room again! You're helping me get my blog written - so thanks, Les.

For lack of room, I’ll just add that there are now peer-reviewed, double blind studies that I will add later. The point I’d like to make is this: Studies done using standard medical procedures such as double blinds haven’t until very recently been performed other than to isolate a particular chemical out of the whole plant oil. The wide majority of them were done using this method because then the pharmaceutical companies can go back to the lab make a synthetic copy and patent it – otherwise, they can’t make money on it as natural chemicals can’t be patented (although even that is being nudged here and there as in stevia). Isolated chemicals do not contain all of the hundreds of other chemical components present in any essential oil and it is the synergy of all of those that gives the essential oil its efficacy and safety. Which is why willow bark works without side effects, but aspirin has serious side effects. Where do you think the pharmaceutical companies come up with their ideas for new medicines – they go out to indigenous people and places like the rain forest because they know natural remedies work and have for centuries? When they find something they can isolate and patent, then that’s what they do and make millions and if they can’t isolate and patent it, they bury it, as in hide it. Read the books I mentioned before.

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