5 Common Ailments Relieved by Essential Oils

Uncategorized Sep 08, 2019

As you probably know, essential oils are made by extracting the oils from plants, flowers, herbs, and leaves. These oils provide a lot of amazing healing benefits, ranging from boosting your immune system, to improving your gut health, to helping your mental health by reducing stress and anxiety.

Here are 5 common ailments that can be relieved just by using certain essential oils.

Seasonal & Environmental Threats

If you suffer from allergies, you might be looking for a natural remedy to replace your over the counter meds. Essential oils are an exceptional way to help get rid of symptoms caused by seasonal and environmental changes. You can start to experience relief right away without potential side effects. Here are some things to know about using essential oils for your allergies.

The Best Oils for Seasonal and Environmental Threats are:

Peppermint

A great essential oil to start with when you want to ease your allergy symptoms is peppermint. With peppermint, it works really great when you are already experiencing your allergy symptoms. The aroma opens the airways allowing you to breathe easier, which is often a concern among allergy sufferers. Peppermint also helps relieve digestive problems and head tension.

Eucalyptus

Another good essential oil to try is eucalyptus, which is great for allergies and respiratory issues. Like peppermint, eucalyptus oil is great for opening the airways, relieving congestion, and allowing you to breathe a little better. The best way to use eucalyptus oil is aromatically in a diffuser or topically diluted with a carrier oil.

Get Better Sleep

There are few things in life more frustrating than having trouble sleeping. Quality sleepis important for both your mental and physical health, and many people suffer from restless sleep and insomnia. Instead of relying on harsh, addictive medications, try using essential oils at night before bed.

Lavender

It should come as no surprise that lavender essential oil is helpful for sleep. When you have trouble sleeping, it is often due to not being able to relax and calm the mind. This might be due to certain body pains, a lot of stress and anxiety, or even depression. Lavender essential oil is very calming, and will relax your mind and your body.

Chamomile

Chamomile tea is frequently recommended for insomnia, but not because of some magic elixir, but because of the chamomile herb. Roman Chamomile is really effective at calming both your body and mind, relieving stress, and reducing tension. Using a couple of drops on the bottom of your feet or in bath at night or diffusing roman chamomile at night will promote a calm mind and restful sleep.

Improving Mental Focus

If you’ve been struggling with a lack of proper mental focus and concentration, you might be looking for ways to improve it. Specific essential oils have wonderful properties for promoting focus, concentration and mental clarity. Take a look at these different oils that are perfect for reducing a foggy brain.

Rosemary

Rosemary is a great essential oil for many mental and emotional conditions, from high amounts of stress, to anxiety and depression. So it should come as no surprise that it is also recommended for proper mental focus. If you have issues with your memory, concentration, or focusing for long periods of time, rosemary essential oil added to your diffuser is a great place to start. The aroma helps you concentrate better and can help reduce your emotional stress that might be interfering with your focus.

Frankincense

The king of oils, is a wonderful remedy for many ailments, including brain fog. Diffusing frankincense or inhaling it from the bottle in a great way to boost your mental focus. Frankincense also has wonderful grounding properties, so it will help reduce stress and feelings of overwhelm.

Essential Oils for Anxiousness

People who suffer from anxiety or panic attacks are often looking for ways to find relief from the attacks without turning to medications. In addition to watching your diet and getting regular exercise, it is also a good idea to give essential oils a try. Here are some of the best oils for anxiousness.

Lavender

Lavender is recommended for any ailment that has to do with relaxing your body and mind since it has wonderful calming properties. Lavender helps you relax, sleep better, reduce nervousness, and reduce anxious feelings. Lavender is great in a bath when you are trying to calm down, or you can add a few drops to a diffuser.

Rose

Rose is an essential oil you can us for stress, anxious feelings, and feelings of sadness. Rose also has wonderful antimicrobial properties, so it’s very supportive to the immune system. Our Rose Touch comes pre-diluted in a roller bottle, so it’s perfect applying topically to the wrists, chest, or bottom of feet. I like to use it as perfume because it smells so lovely, and I get the therapeutic benefits from it all day!

Essential Oils for Insect and Bug Bites

I live in Dallas, TX and this time of year, the mosquitos are swarming. When you get a bug bite, it often causes stinging and burning, itching, and redness around the area of the bite. Using essential oils on the bite, really helps relieve many of these symptoms and speed up the healing process. Try out some of these oils for your insect or bug bites.

Tea Tree

One of the best essential oils for your skin is tea tree oil. Many people use this oil to reduce acne and other skin irritations. It also happens to work very well when you have a bug or insect bite. Tea tree oil is good for boosting your immune system, which can help reduce the overall effect of being bitten by certain types of bugs.

Basil and Thyme

Herbal essential oils like basil and thyme are great for bug bites. Basil essential oil is an anti-inflammatory oil, so it can help reduce the irritation and swelling around your bug bites. This further helps to help soothe the bite. You might also want to try using thyme essential oil, which reduces infection of your bug bite if the skin opens.