Distillation Methods ** And Therapeutic Values

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Hey Michael,

 

> I have a question regarding distillation methods. One company

> (Imani Natural Products) say they use oils which come from a

> French doctor and are " slow distilled " for medicinal use. Has

> anyone (e.g. Butch) heard of this process?

 

Sounds like more marketing hype. Bet if you ask them to clarify they

will start to do the schuffle-schuffle dance and sing the humma-humma

song. Reminds me of them whut claim to distill at low temperatures.

No way in hell to distill till you reach the point of boiling.

 

> Also, just because oils are organic or wild crafted, is this

> assurance that they are not processed with solvents?

 

Not at all! Essential Oils are extracted from aromatic plant materials

via steam distillation, hydro-distillation and hydro-diffusion. All of

these three methods uses a solvent called water (H2O).

 

Absolutes are created (using wildgrown or organic or whatever) aromatic

plant materials by first bathing the materials in a solvent (normally

hexane) and creating a Concrete .. from that Concrete (again using a

solvent) they create Absolutes .. and the remaining material is Wax.

 

But .. if someone tells you they extract oils using " slow distillation "

or " low temperatures " .. its hard to say what they are doing cause one

lie leads to another.

 

> Am generally wondering if there is some kind of European standard

> of processing oils for " medicinal " use and if there is such a thing

> as slow distilled.

 

I've answered the second question. As for the first one .. " medicinal "

use .. it would be hard to have a standard for something that doesn't

exist and there are no essential oils I am aware of that are or should

be classified as " medicinal " .. or for that matter, " therapeutic. I've

spent a lotta time beating my head on the wall trying to get folks to

get away from such terms cause if we ain't medical doctors .. and most

of us ain't .. then what the hell we doing prescribing medicine?

 

As far as I am concerned .. there are two classes of EO .. Aromatherapy

Grade (which is pure, unmanipulated and as natural as when it exited the

still) and Commercial Grade (which will be manipulated in some cases

cause they want standardization .. and in other cases cause the seller

is greedy). These are NOT pure, natural and unmanipulated EO and though

most people (to include some on this list) do buy them cause they are

more concerned with price than with quality .. they should only be used

in SOAP .. or maybe perfume if a perfumer is not too particular.

 

As for an EO being therapeutic .. even an adulterated EO will have a

good bit of therapeutic properties to it. If this were not so then we

wouldn't have so many folks interested in Aromatherapy cause, like I

said, a lotta folks are getting oils that are less than the optimum.

 

But that said .. keep in mind what I have written often .. there are

basically three kinds of therapeutic value to be gained from the odor of

anything that has molecules small enough to enter through the olfactory

system ..

 

Physiological .. don't even gotta be able to smell to get benefit from

this .. the molecules will provide benefit in any case. Oregano EO is

gonna kick Big Bad Bug Butts even if you are in a coma.

 

Psychological .. there are many EO that will affect our minds in either

a positive or negative manner .. they will calm or excite us .. its not

our choice when this happens.

 

Emotional .. which in many cases sorta overlaps with Psychological. In

such cases, we can point to Rose Otto which has dramatic effects on some

folks .. makes them laugh like crazy or cry like a baby .. all depends

on olfactory memory and their conscious or subconscious connection of

that odor with events in their life. This even goes so far as to allow

me to say that I could produce an odor from Horse Manure that would no

doubt have effective emotional therapeutic value to a feller who was

born and raised on a horse ranch in TaxUs but now is living a crappy

life in the big city.

 

> Thanks, Michael

 

Welcome you be. Y'all keep smiling. :-)

 

Butch http://www/AV-AT.com