DoTerra

This is a great article posted by the BBC that helps us understand
the power of essential oils on serious diseases like cancer.


Immunologist Mahmoud Suhail is hoping to open a new chapter in the
history of frankincense. Scientists have observed that there
is some agent within frankincense which stops cancer spreading,
and which induces cancerous cells to close themselves down.
He is trying to find out what this is.


The Catholic church mostly buys Somalian frankincense
"Cancer starts when the DNA code within the cell's nucleus
becomes corrupted," he says. "It seems frankincense has a
re-set function. It can tell the cell what the right DNA code
should be.


"Frankincense separates the 'brain' of the cancerous
cell - the nucleus - from the 'body' - the cytoplasm, and
closes down the nucleus to stop it reproducing corrupted DNA
codes."


Working with frankincense could revolutionise the treatment of
cancer. Currently, with chemotherapy, doctors blast the
area around a tumour to kill the cancer, but that also
kills healthy cells, and weakens the patient. Treatment with
frankincense could eradicate the cancerous cells alone and let
the others live.

The task now is to isolate the agent within frankincense which,
apparently, works this wonder. Some ingredients of frankincense are
allergenic, so you cannot give a patient the whole thing.


FRANKINCENSE FACTS

Boswellia sacra grows in Oman, Yemen and SomaliaOther Boswellia
species grow in Africa and IndiaThe tree may have been named after
John Boswell, the uncle of Samuel Johnson's biographerIn
ancient Egypt frankincense was thought to be sweat of the gods


Source: The Pharmaceutical Journal

Dr Suhail (who is originally from Iraq) has teamed up with medical
scientists from the University of Oklahoma for the task.
In his laboratory in Salalah, he extracts the essential oil from
locally produced frankincense. Then, he separates the oil into its
constituent agents, such as Boswellic acid.

"There are 17 active agents in frankincense essential
oil," says Dr Suhail. "We are using a process of
elimination. We have cancer sufferers - for example, a horse in
South Africa - and we are giving them tiny doses of each agent
until we find the one which works."

"Some scientists think Boswellic acid is the key ingredient.
But I think this is wrong. Many other essential oils - like oil
from sandalwood - contain Boswellic acid, but they don't have
this effect on cancer cells. So we are starting afresh."

The trials will take months to conduct and whatever results come
out of them will take longer still to be verified. But this is a
blink of the eye in the history of frankincense.

Nine thousand years ago, Omanis gathered it and burnt it for its
curative and cleansing properties. It could be a key to the medical
science of tomorrow.

If you want to learn more ... CLICK HERE:
http://essentialoilsolution.com/go/la23563