The Chemistry of Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils
....and their chemical components
Why Young Living therapeutic-grade oils?
Young Living cultivates several thousand acres of fertile chemical-free farmland all over the world.
Young Living is the firmly established leader in the Essential Oils Industry.
Gary Young (Founder of Young Living)has more than 20 years experience in health
and wellness science and has studied worldwide.
They include over 2,000 acres of farm land in Idaho and Utah, 2,000 acres in
Equador South America and another farm in France.
Therapeutic Grade?
In order to experience healing with essential oils, one must be certain that the
oils are high-grade therapeutic grade oils grown organically, distilled properly,
and bottled undiluted, unadulterated, and unchanged from their natural state.
Young Living is able to provide the highest quality essential oils available. The ONLY pure, organic,
therapeutic essential oils with an unconditional, money back guarantee
Young Living Essential Oils, the Leading Provider of essential oils
Young Living offers more than 300 essential oil singles and blends. All Young Living essential oils meet the YLTG
standard. This means that every essential oil Young Living distills or sources has
the optimal naturally-occurring blend of constituents to maximize the desired effect.
Only YLTG essential oils should be used for the primary methods of application,
which include inhalation and application.
Most essential oils available are food or fragrance grade oils which are not
necessarily organically grown, are often extracted with chemical solvents,
may contain synthetic components, and/or have been denatured, refined or diluted.
Such oils are not therapeutic.
Each of these oil constituents can be
broken down into numerous smaller units.
Take terpenes, for example. This classification includes monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes,
sesquiterpene lactones, Di-terpenes, etc.
Listing them all is beyond the scope of this brief overview.
Each constituent has its own action, or effects.
For example, the ketones found in lavender, hyssop and patchouly, stimulate
cell regeneration. Whereas, phenols, found in oregano and thyme oil, are highly antimicrobial.
Because the chemistry of essential oils is very complex, essential oils are diverse
in their effects. This also supports their antimicrobial effects, because the wide
variety of antiseptic compounds in essential oils makes the mutation of microorganisms
extremely difficult. In l985, Dr. Jean C. Lapraz stated that no microbe could
survive in the presence of the essential oils of cinnamon or oregano.
What Do Essential Oil Constituents Offer?
Essential oils high in aldehydes and esters are calming, sedating, combat insomnia, stress,
and nervous tension. Esters and aldehydes have a stimulating and sedating effect on the nerve
endings.
Some Young Living oils high in aldehydes are:
Lemongrass (calming), Citrus Fresh, Inner Child, SARA, Trauma Life, lavender (esters), and
Tangerine (which also happens to be high in limonene which prevents DNA damage).
Most people either use essential oils for their therapeutic effect or for the
fragrance alone but it is also interesting to take note of the chemistry, of
which the oils are made up from.
Chemistry of essential oils molecules compounds in essential oils.
It is interesting to know the chemical components that nature combines to make up the oils,
but it is also humbling to take note of the fact that even with the best human efforts,
should you in a laboratory combine all the chemicals in the correct proportions, you
would still not have an identical oil.
Such a copy of an oil will not have the same effect as a therapeutic grade pure essential oil.
And though we pride ourselves on being a technology advanced society, modern science can still not
unlock the secrets of essential oils and why they can do what they do.
If you for instance took all the correct chemical components, which will include lavandulol, borneol,
terpineol, geraniol and linalol, and try to make up lavender essential oil in a laboratory, you
will not have an oil that can successfully treat burns the way that true lavender oil can.
Essential oils, like all organic compounds, are made up of hydrocarbon molecules and can further be
classified as terpenes, alcohols, esters, aldehydes, ketones and phenols etc.
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