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Procedures (protocols) other folks recommend

Shannon - I had a boil on my leg that was lanced about 1 1/2 years ago. I have had a scar there ever since. The last two days it has gotten tender again and today I can feel a small lump. I'm sure the boil is returning so this morning I started to apply helichrysum on it. Is this the best oil, or is there something else I should be using/doing to help it go away so I don't have to get it lanced again?

Rob - I have heard reports that frankincense, melaleuca, and citrus oil are all good and the helichrysum is perfect.

John - My experience suggest a rotation between frankincense and OnGuard.  I would also use VCO as a carrier.  Apply 3 times daily. Don' t lance it unless is gets obviously infected or the oils don't begin to reduce the boil.

12 May 2010

Julia Ann - I have read questions and comments and I will now wade into this discussion with a story of my mother.  In Nov 2006 mom went through severe trauma and started with a small area the size of a nickel on her neck/shoulder area, right side.  I told her not to scratch it, and to use lavender, but it itched...so she scratched, and within a week it was a necklace around her neck.  Shingles!  I treated her for about a month and when my family found out they had a fit, demanded that she see a doctor, and when we took her to a dermatologist, she contacted MRSA from his office.

Now she was covered in boils (some were the size of quarters) and shingles from head to toe within just a month.  Medicines reacted and made her worse, 3 doctors later and much duress and anxiety from the family....( I had backed off and just went with the flow so as not to seem a know it all,...but thinking all the time that we had almost had the shingles issue licked before the family waded into the picture), my mother came to me and said that she had had enough and that if she continued to cave into the families pressure she would soon be dead.  I agreed!  

She asked me if I would take her back on and I asked her these questions.  "Do you trust me?"  "Do you trust my judgment?"  "How much do you trust me?"  "Do you have enough faith in me and God that we can get you thorough this?"  She answered all the questions with what I needed to hear to know that her faith in me and God and nature would take us through.  I told her that we had a long hard fight in front of us but we would pull her through with God's help and a lot of grace.

We immediately started using this formula that I came up with after talking to some other essential oils experts.  4 drops of rosemary, 4 drops of thyme, 4 drops of oregano in a capsule 3 times daily.  We literally started seeing immediate results within just a few days.  She was taking detoxification baths with geranium, helichrysum, lavender, Roman chamomile...etc oils in them.  Each night was whichever she wanted and felt like using that night.  We made up a bottle of geranium with a carrier oil for topical application and she alternated the topical oils as she felt they were helping with the boils and itching.   I don't mind telling you it was nothing short of a living nightmare!!  We did poultices constantly, using Clay baths, herbs, etc, everything I had ever learned as a herbalist I pulled out of the cabinet and we worked steady for a year.  She lost the whole year of 2007...did not leave the house for anything...and was mostly bed bound....but today would I say that it was worth everything we had to do for the results of her being with us now??  ABSOLUTELY!!

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