A few months later, sans oils, he suffered a spleen rupture after playing baseball. The oils could not have prevented the errant wild pitch, but I cursed myself for not having the oils on hand.
Ever since then the oils have been in place. Thieves, immuno-power, basil, lemon grass. Friends that sleep over willingly give up their feet to be patted down with the oils. We all love the smell of health and nature.
Fast forward to this past month. I’ve been begging my mom to place an order. Her essential-oil gurus were on vacation in Italy studying.
Very recently, one of our children said his chest hurt when he ran or swam. He’s not a complainer. I placed a 911-OIL call to my mother, who lives less than a mile away. She put oils on his feet and rubbed his chest with eucalyptus. By morning he was solid and sturdy, ready to go.
“I think Thieves speaks for itself,” said Robin Stapley, a massage therapist. “I use it every day because I come in contact with so many people and several of them are sick. If it worked for grave-robbers who did not catch the bubonic plague, then I believe it does me great justice.”
Stapley wasn’t always an essential-oil user. “My children and grandchildren live in New Mexico and Florida, and every time I’d visit them I’d get sick from that recirculated air on the plane.” Once she discovered Thieves she would smell, dot and drink a tincture of the oil when traveling. For the past eight years she said, she has never gotten sick, even while working on clients who are ill. She thinks of essential oils as similar to antibiotics, but paying a bonus by boosting the immune system, preventing illness and curing many things that modern medical drugs cannot.
She gave a few examples of how lavender essential oil “helps to heal burns, any skin condition, and relax my clients who are anxious.” If overwhelmed herself, she puts a drop or two in the bathtub to “soothe and relax myself. It works immediately.”
