Renegade Beauty by Nadine Artemis

Author:Nadine Artemis
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781583949702
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2017-10-10T04:00:00+00:00

Dr. Daniel Pénoël, a French physician proficient in medical aromatherapy, stated that “Aromatic medicine could eventually become the ecological medicine of the 21st century by balancing earth, water and atmospheric ecosystems.”9

Essential oils protect our body, skin, and mouth much in the same way that they protect the plant against pathogens with their bacteriostatic nature. Antiquity appreciated medicinal plant virtues, and now we have gas chromatographs to map out how each essence is composed of hundreds of special substances that defy the development of bacterial resistance, encourage immunity, act as first-aid responders, and boost beauty by delivering nutrients and stimulating cells.

Often people think that they must imbibe an essential oil to gain benefits beyond the delight of the aroma. They think that the oils must be ingested to have a physiological effect in the body. Yet these majestic molecules can enter our beings and work their alchemy simply through inhalation.

Let’s explore how essences are the perfect consecrating chrisms and botanical-biotics to attend to our bodies and mental ethers. When our inner and outer senses are drenched in the phenomena of the natural world, the natural elements are the sublime spirit food for our beings. Breathing is intertwined with smelling; the nose is a portal to the flow of known and unknown and unlocks an entrance into the brain, blood, and body. True fragrance offers a direct route to the frequencies of thoughts, and it has been used for eons as a way to open new doors of perception as aromatic molecules tickle the brain to release neurotransmitters. Volatile vibrations of odorous molecules float in the air; and when we inhale them, these molecules are swept up into the nostril, where odor molecules settle on the olfactory epithelia. This thin nasal skin contains olfactory sensory neurons that have more than twenty million odor receptors! Their journey from the olfactory epithelia to our brains is swift; the molecules pass through the cribriform plate into the olfactory cortex, which is connected to the limbic system, which influences emotions, and finally reach the hippocampus and amygdala. In the hippocampus, molecular-electrical impulses from the olfactory bulb activate hormonal activities, and neurotransmitters are released, including encephalin, endorphins, serotonin, and noradrenaline. These neurotransmitters are the lube of our internal lives. “Within the limbic system resides the regulatory mechanism of our highly explosive inner life, the secret core of our being. Here is the seat of our sexuality, the impulse of attraction and aversion, our motivation and our moods, our memory and creativity, as well as our autonomic nervous system.”10

When consciousness rules breath, with inbreath we can smell all perfumes.11

Recipes for potent essences were inscribed on marble tablets in the Temple of Asclepius: “The best recipe for health is to apply sweet scents to the brain.”

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