Wow! What did I invite to myself after that last article on home remedies coughs?!
Started the week with a nasty, dizzy, heavy headed and feeling-achy-everywhere kind of flu, right after I posted the previous article! Needless to say, my mum made the concoction shared in that article. It helped to keep the phlegm a bay i believed. But I guessed the virus that got to me is neither meek nor easily intimidated! I should take more of the concoction - this occurred to me, just! So while waiting for the a fresh batch to be ready I am sharing here my experience of the last few days.
It was a good thing I had my essential oils to help me in this war too. For my friends into Young Living Essential Oils, I especially would like to share today's posting with you. So listen up.... :)
I have been using the Thieves blend at night in my diffuser, usually mixed with a few drops of Peppermint or White Angelica. On the first few nights, I only rubbed two drops of Thieves into the sole of my feet when I go to bed.
However, yesterday when the flu developed into a terrible cough that kept me awake all night, I decided to be more adventurous. At 3 a.m., I concocted this mix when I coughed myself awake and felt that I had trouble breathing. It felt like the air that i sucked would not fill up my lungs properly. Not panicking, I first cleared my nasal passage by inhaling 2 drops of peppermint and a drop of Thieves rubbed into the palms of my hand and onto my chest. That was fantastic! Then I was inspired to use 5 drops of Thieves, 5 drops of peppermint and 2 drops of lemon in my diffuser. Double fantastic!!
Then I put my diffuser really close to inhale the essential oil mix i experimented with. Slowly I could feel my breathing easing and becoming more natural. In addition to rubbing Thieves on the soles of my feet, I also rubbed some on my chest. Needless to say I fell asleep soon after that and did not wake up till my alarm rang at 9 a.m.
I have been keeping up with Thieves on my chest every few hours, and lemon oil drops in my drinking water. :)
In addition to the use of essential oils, I have also been taking bee propolis, gamat extract and echinacea two to three times a day.
Of course, I had to nap throughout the day as I still felt weak, and needed more rest. As I woke up feeling hungry (yay! Good sign of a victory over the flu bug) just, I felt i needed a pick me up. Again, I turned to the essential oils. Another wave of inspiration washed over me as I put in 3 drops of Valor and 2 drops of Joy into the diffuser. Immediately I was awashed in the uplifting aroma of the oil mix! And I do mean immediately. That made me sit down and type this in before I forget, while gorging myself on some vegetarian and curry pau!
The hunger has reminded me again, how true the popular advice that one should, "feed the flu and starve the fever". My body feels like it has gone through a major battle and is famished. The heavy head has gone and seems like the cough and nasty phlegms has lessen tremendously too!
SO while I continue to feed my face with food (it's 5 p.m and dinner at 6 is just too far away...), I bid everyone a good and joyful evening!
Cheers!!!
p/s - the oil blends i mentioned are made up of the various mixes of fine therapeutic grade essential oils from Young Living Essential Oil.
Thieves is a blend of clove, cinnamon bark, rosemary, lemon, Eucalyptus Radiata.
Valor is from a mix of spruce, blue tansy, rosewood, frankincense.
Joy is made up of bergamot, lemon, palmarosa, ylang ylang, mandarin, rose, geranium, jasmine, rosewood, Roman chamomile.
These oils are achieved by means of accurate and specific proportions blending of the various single oils. The proportion of mixes are of course proprietary to Young Living. I believe I am unlikely to be able to come up with the exact scent and properties even if I have all the different ingredients and the recipe in front of me!
All I can say I have so much more to discover and learn about the natural healing properties of essential oils! And I can't wait to experiment more....
"Errr..... Ah Leng ah! Yeah, you in the GAGA tee and the watery, sniffling nose....want to be my lab rat ah?" Hehehehe......
