Accidentally Bite Your Tongue? (or Lips?) Essential Oils to the Rescue!

by Cynthe on February 19, 2012

ouch graphic with bitten tongue

Bite your tongue? Essential oils can heal it practically overnight.

Bit my tongue the other day OUCH! on my way out to an appointment, so didn’t have time to put essential oils on immediately.

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Thieves® Therapeutic-grade Essential Oils Blend by Young Living

Essential Oils to the Rescue for a Tongue Bite!

When I got home, used my go-to remedy: GERMAN CHAMOMILE essential oil to reduce inflammation. But the bite seemed mildly infected and still was bothering me the next morning. So I dabbed on a touch of Young Living THIEVES essential oil blend to kill any hint of infection. That did the trick!

My tender tongue was MUCH better the following day. Decided to continue with alternating  a touch of GERMAN CHAMOMILE with COPAIBA essential oil ~ both of which are mild and strongly anti-inflammatory ~ to reduce the little bump and speed the healing in three days, rather than the normal week or so it takes most bitten tongues to get better.

SOURCES:

~ For conventional first-aid advice for bitten tongues, read this helpful article.
~ Tongue graphic adapted from Chris Spooner’s bold illustration graphic inspired by Rolling Stone’s famous tongue icon.

Cynthia Brush, Young Living Oils Distributor #168709Cynthe Brush CCA, formulates healing essential oil blends for your health issues: stress; backaches; herpes simplex; injuries; sprains - broken bones; wounds & surgeries. Personal Consultations pre-paid on an hourly basis. Custom EO blends at Gaia's Pharmacopeia.

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COPAIBA Essential Oil: Rediscovering a Traditional Healing Plant Essence

by Cynthe on February 16, 2012

Photo of Copaiba balsam tree (Copaifera Officinalis)

Copaiba balsam tree (Copaifera officinalis)

Young Living’s COPAIBA, a new-to-the-USA therapeutic-quality essential oil,has been re-introduced into our healing pharmacopeia after a century of obscurity.

This medicinal gem is NOT steam-distilled like other therapeutic essential oils, but tapped directly from a traditional medicinal tree indigenous to Brazil’s Amazon jungle. Through a hole is drilled into the trunk of the 50 to 80-foot tall tree out pours liquid copaiba oleo resin. The resin is then distilled under vacuum pressure ~ without water or heat ~ to separate off the precious aromatic essential oil. All harvesting of Young Living’s COPAIBA is done by native Brazilian tribes.

copaiba botanical illustration with bottle of young living copaiba essential oil from essential oils for healing

Young Living Copaiba therapeutic-quality essential oil is excellent for healing wounds, fungal infections, relieve pain, and reduce inflammation.

Used as a traditional folk medicine for nearly 800 years and still sold in Amazonian pharmacies, COPAIBA was also listed in the US Pharmacopeia for [Read more…]

Cynthia Brush, Young Living Oils Distributor #168709Cynthe Brush CCA, formulates healing essential oil blends for your health issues: stress; backaches; herpes simplex; injuries; sprains - broken bones; wounds & surgeries. Personal Consultations pre-paid on an hourly basis. Custom EO blends at Gaia's Pharmacopeia.

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‘Sticks and Stones…’
Essential Oils for Beach Bruises

January 19, 2012
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Sunday was fading into mid-afternoon, which seemed later with November’s daylight savings ‘Fall Back’ time change. I’d had it with sitting at the computer and wanted a nature outing, fresh air, and a walk. We live less than an hour’s drive from the Pacific ocean with lovely sandy beaches, steep cliffs, and rugged sea stack [...]

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Pure Essential Oils Prevent Infections from Cat Bites or Scratches

September 15, 2011
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We have an exceptionally intelligent kitty, Jaeci, who can be a bit of a handful to deal with…especially for folks she doesn’t know (or trust completely). She’s hyper-sensitive, rather ADHD (inattentiveness – willfulness in Jaeci’s case – combed with over-activity, impulsive reactions). She gets overstimulated quickly. Her affectionate, playful nips can easily be “not so [...]

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Wake Up! And Make Your Coffee Carefully…

July 22, 2011
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Mid-January this year, my sister burned her wrist with HOT coffee grounds. OUCH! It was an accident. Making coffee is part of her daily morning routine. As an essential oils friend of ours mentioned, coffee grounds spilt on the skin are worse than a burn from hot coffee, since the grounds hold the scorching water [...]

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Weak, Split Prone Fingernails? No Longer!

July 16, 2011
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Late in 2009, my left thumbnail cracked right at the top edge of the nail. Like a close friend of mine and my mother, I have very fine, dry hair…and soft, dry nails. (As you may know, hair and nails are made from similar cells.) The rough edges of my cracked thumbnail caught on towels, [...]

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