Pregnancy and Essential Oils

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Butch Owen <butchbsi

Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:18:15 -0800

Pregnancy and Essential Oils

 

 

Hi Jay,

 

> hi

> I am doing some research for my paper about pregnancy and essential oils.

 

I wonder who would assign such a requirement .. and why? And I wonder

if the teacher who assigned it believes that you will be able to find

some valid information in that regard .. or if that teacher believes

there are problems with use of essential oils during pregnancy.

 

> Does anyone have any personal experience of essential oils being harmful

> in pregnancy.

 

Obviously .. I don't. ;-) And I doubt that anyone else will be able to

answer this in the affirmative.

 

> Any information that internal use of essential oils have resulted in

> abortion?

 

There are no essential oils that are abortifacients .. however, there is

much rumor and misinformation claiming that there are. One oil that has

gotten a lot of bad (and erroneous) press is Pennyroyal .. check this ..

http://www.aromamedical.com/articles/pennyroy.html

 

There is a possibility that a mother could poison herself via ingestion

of some EO .. but that will not have an abortive effect .. even if the

mother succeeded in killing herself a healthy fetus could survive .. of

course, depending on the stage of development.

 

> And if so in what quantity is it digested that it can cause spontaneous

> abortion.

 

Doesn't happen that way .. but if you want to learn the levels of

toxicity that can kill for this or that EO .. you need the source of

that information .. Martin Watt's Safety Manual " Plant Aromatics. "

Check it out at http://www.av-at.com/plantaromaticsavnp.html

 

> My main topic is in what way can it cause harm ?

 

Should be an easy topic to write on .. not much information to report

unless one wants to repeat the misinformation, disinformation and rumor

that too many folks in the industry are buffaloed by because of teachers

repeating such humma-humma.

 

See the next post I send on this subject.

 

> thnkx

> Jay

 

Welcome .. and y'all keep smiling. :-)

 

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