From Erelis

[Guest guest]

Dear folks, this is my first message since I joined

the list last week. My Lithuania is the home of an

ancient Indo-European language, ancient songs, and

natural herbal healing, and known for its amber (if

any of you have tried amber oil, the fossilized solar

energy from trees that lived millions of years ago).

 

I have not taken any aromatherapy courses, but I have

studied on my own for years. Like Sandy, I am

homeschooling my child. I learned of this list from a

posting in the alt.yoga newsgroup. My fondest

interests lie in natural health: for me, yoga,

vegetarian and natural organic eating, herbal and

holistic naturopathic healing, aromatherapy, the

simple life, and spiritual prayer and meditation are

all interjoined.

 

I first was introduced to aromatherapeutic theory

through The Book of Sufi Healing by Hakim G. M.

Chishti, and found that the essences provided by the

people associated with him, The Attar Bazaar, were of

very high quality. (Once I called him on the phone

and he told me he was no longer associated with The

Attar Bazaar, but they are still producing the same

high quality oils.) One thing I learned from him is

that aromatherapy is many centuries old, and was

practiced by Avicenna over 1,000 years ago. According

to Avicenna, amber oil strengthens the heart. It is

applied to the ajña cakra (third eye between eyebrows

on forehead). The theory associated with Avicenna and

traditional Sufi healers is based on the four

elements, the four humors of the human body, made up

of hot, cold, moist, dry.

 

Another source of my aromatherapeutic learning has

been through trying to understand the theory behind

the compunded products from Maharishi Ayur-Ved. This

is based on the three dosas: kapha, pitta, vayu. I am

still trying to learn more about this. I have found

some good results from their blends. Their advice on

their web site is not to use simples, because their

blends are specially formulated for balance of

effects, synergies that do not occur when simples are

used alone.

 

So far I only have used aromas on myself; no thought

of applying to others, except that I have urged my

wife to apply the amber oil to her ajna cakra when she

complains of chest pains. (She is sceptical of all

the natural remedies I suggest to her!)

 

Taika ir meile (peace and love),

Jonas Erelis

 

 

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menuo sauluZe vede

pirma pavasareli

 

The Moon married the Sun

In the first springtime