Safety of Ingesting Drugs vs Essential Oils
Our present healthcare and wellness revolution is all about empowerment, largely by banishing fear. As we demystify health, we are taking curative, healing and preventive practices back from an “elite”, who for a while were deemed the authorities on our bodies.
As of 2020, med school textbooks still don’t define the word “health.”
The modern practice of medicine is not primarily focused on health but identifying and pairing procedures or drug treatments with a focus on diseases and alleviating symptoms.
Hooray for procedures and meds that save lives!
Not-so-hooray when they are prescribed in place of restorative health practices despite toxic effects to the body, not to mention personal finances.
Side-Effects?
Real talk: drug treatments are not exactly “safe.”
They cause harm.
We use the softened term, negative “side effects,” but there is no such thing as a “side” effect.
It may not be your primary intention in taking the thing, but if a drug both shuts off a pain signal and toxifies your liver, one could just as easily call it a liver toxifier as a pain reliever. Relieving pain is a side effect of whatever it’s doing to your blood, gut, metabolism and liver.
Maybe I’m being too dramatic?
Every year hundreds of thousands of people die due to “iatrogenic” causes.
Essential oils are safe, non-toxic, free of “side effects which can lead to iatrogenic disease,” and, as we will see, are sometimes most healing and restorative when used internally.
Certainly, there are times when benefits outweigh risks. That is true for many things.
However, before we move on to the next part of this awesome discussion, I would like to put any fears at ease.
While there are smart precautions when it comes to ingesting them, essential oils are safe, non-toxic, free of toxic “side effects which can lead to iatrogenic disease,” and, as we will see, are sometimes most healing and restorative when used internally.