Essential Oils NP

07/07/2025

Oil pulling.

07/05/2025

Essential oil DIY

04/28/2024

As the aromatherapy market expands exponentially, newer and lesser-known essential oils are often missed from traditional aromatherapy texts. This unique and updated toolkit profiles 40 emerging oils from around the globe with each profile detailing the background, strengths, chemistry, cautions and...

08/21/2023

08/21/2023

🤓 The Most Important Molecule For Essential Oils

The molecule you see below is called “isoprene”. When it comes to essential oil molecules, isoprene is extremely important. Most of the constituents found in essential oils are molecules that are derived from the isoprene basic building block.

Plant cells have enzymes that combine isoprene units together in different lengths and structural configurations. This is how plants synthesize essential oil molecules. It’s a tad bit more complex than this, but this is the basic gist.

The great majority of molecules found in essential oils can be thought of as some structural combination of this basic building block. The number of isoprene units determine the size of the molecule, and the geometric orientation in space and connection points between the isoprene units determine the chemical shape.

This is how you get the monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, diterpenes, and triterpenes. There are literally thousands of combinations, and thus there are thousands of different essential oil molecules.

Each isoprene unit has 5 carbons. On the diagram below, three of the carbons are labeled. The other two are not shown, but the labeling convention of organic molecules tells us that there’s a carbon where the 3 lines come together at the two different points in the center of molecule.

H stands for hydrogen. So, isoprene is a molecule that contains carbon and hydrogen.

The single lines in the diagram represent a single bond. The double lines represent a double bond.

It is this alternating pattern of single and double bonds that make essential oils great antioxidants. The fancy word chemists use for alternating single and double bonds is “conjugated”. Since isoprene has this structure already built in, any combination of isoprene units will also possess a conjugated bond system. Single-Double-Single-Double-Single-Double……. This pattern is our friend and one of the aspects that make essential oils so powerful.

Think of isoprene like a Lego block. And connecting the legos together in different numbers and configurations gives you the amazing diversity found in essential oil molecules.

Dr. Doug

02/04/2023

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02/04/2023

Some experts hypothesize that exposure to chronic stress and altered living conditions may be a contributing factor in the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers compared the effectiveness of sweet basil CT linalool essential oil and fluoxetine in preventing neurodegenerative changes caused by chronic unpredictable mild stress in a preclinical model of stress and Alzheimer's disease. Fluoxetine was administered orally, and basil oil was inhaled for 15 minutes daily from a cotton ball for two weeks. Inhalation of the basil oil alleviated memory impairment, neurodegenerative changes in the hippocampus, and depressed mood caused by chronic stress and also positively altered brain chemicals. Basil’s effects frequently exceeded that of fluoxetine.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29356981/

Based on these results, it may be beneficial to diffuse sweet basil as part of your care routine for your loved ones with Alzheimer's disease.

01/24/2023

01/22/2023

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Are you a professional in health care, especially passionate about end of life care and already equipped with basic knowledge on Aromatherapy?