Pure Oil Essential
Specific Applications for legs pains
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Legs Pains, essential oil can help you !

Often applied through massage oils, lotions, liniments, or compresses, essential oils reduce pain by different mechanisms:
For a fragrant massage oil to relieve your aching muscles, aromatherapy suggests a blend of anti-inflammatory chamomile, analgesic birch, stimulating rosemary and soothing lavender essential oils. To prepare, add three drops of chamomile, three drops of birch, three drops of rosemary (or coriander), eight drops of lavender and three drops of wintergreen, ounce of a carrier oil such as olive, almond, grapeseed or avocado. Massage into the affected area after a warm bath.  To stop muscle spasms, soak your feet for 10 to 20 minutes in a large pot of hot water with wintergreen. Great for sore muscles and legs pains, relaxing, poor circulation, and fighting varicose veins.  You can also add wintergreen extract to your favor moisturizer.

Legs pains and foot Therapy

For legs pains and a foot therapy bath follow with an moisturizer such as Skin Renew Repair Cream can help for legs pains and keep the feet moist, refreshed, soft and free of dead skin build-up.  A blend  of Olive oil, Peppermint, Tea tree, Rosemary, Eucalyptus, Clove, Peru, Lemon leaves, Arnica flowers, White Willow and Mineral Salts can help smooth the feet . Soak feet for 20 minutes in a tub of warm water three times a week. Moisturize feet nightly. If your skin is already hardened with corns and calluses, use pumice stone on these areas after your foot therapy bath and before moisturizing.

Numbing & legs pains

Some oils - such as clove bud, frankincense chamomile, lavender, and lemongrass - dull pain by numbing nerve endings,
lavender : Used to relieve nervousness, anxiety, difficulty in falling asleep,
It is suitable for all complexion types and hastens the healing of skin cells, so it's used on burns, sun-damaged skin, wounds, and rashes.  It also relieves the pain of injuries, legs pains by numbing nerve endings.  Lavender can be used to treat oily skin and acne and prevents scarring and stretch marks and reputedly slows the development of wrinkles.  A lavender massage oil or bath improves digestion and boosts immunity.  Of several fragrances tested by aromatherapy researchers, lavender was most effective at relaxing brain waves and reducing stress.
Lavender oil has a soothing and calming effect on the nerves, relieving tension, depression, panic, hysteria and nervous exhaustion in general.

Anti-inflammatory... even for legs pains

Legs pains. Use oils such as chamomile, geranium, juniper, lavender, marjoram, myrrh, rose, and tea tree diminish pain through anti-inflammatory actions.

Pure Oil Essential: specific applications for legs pains and more...

Heat

Some oils – e.g., as bay laurel, bay rum, black pepper, cinnamon, clove bud, ginger, juniper, peppermint, and thyme - relieve pain by producing heat and increasing circulation.

Brain

Some oils - such as frankincense, ginger, and lemongrass - interfere with the brain’s processing of pain signals.

Neurotransmitters

Oils such as birch (containing aspirin-like compounds), cayenne, and ginger hinder the production of neurotransmitters that carry pain messages from nerve endings to the central nervous system.

Relaxation

Using chamomile, clary sage, lavender, lemon, lemon eucalyptus, lemon verbena, marjoram, melissa (lemon balm), myrtle, and petitgrain (a citrus-related plant) may help relieve pain through relaxation.
Aromatherapy essential oils have powerful effects on your moods, as the part of the brain that detects smell messages from the nose (olfactory bulbs) is closely linked with your emotional centre in a part of the brain called the limbic system. Oils are also absorbed from the skin into the circulation and can have powerful effects on the body. Even Hippocrates, the Greek father of medicine, recommended the use of aromatic essential oils for their relaxing properties.

Some essential oils are so relaxing that they help to promote sleep, especially geranium, juniper, lavender, neroli, lemongrass, sandalwood and ylang ylang. Try sprinkling a few drops of your chosen oil(s) on a cotton-wool pad or hanky and tucking it under your pillow. Alternatively, scent your bedroom with an oil using a burner. However, the oils need to be varied every four or five days to maintain their beneficial effect, as your body and brain start to adapt to them.

Ways to use them effectively

Aromatherapy essential oils may be inhaled, massaged into the skin for example for legs pains, added to bath water, or heated in a variety of ways to perfume the atmosphere. Oils that come into contact with skin should always be diluted with a carrier oil (eg, almond, avocado, jojoba, sunflower, wheatgerm oils). Dilution is important, as oils that are too concentrated may have an adverse effect or cause skin irritation.

Insomnia

Sleep-promoting oils  - including bergamot, chamomile, clary sage, frankincense, geranium, lavender, melissa, mandarin, neroli (orange blossom), rose, sandalwood, and tangerine - can be inhaled, rubbed on the skin with massage oil or lotion, or used in bath water.
Insomnia is habitual sleeplessness, repeated night after night. This means either being unable to fall asleep when you go to bed, or waking up and not being able to get back to sleep. Insomnia can result from a wide variety of causes such as stress, physical pain, breathing problems, depression or caffeine consumption but is generally not as harmless as it is frustrating.

Headaches

When inhaled, a variety of oils - including lavender, melissa, peppermint, basil, chamomile, lemongrass and marjoram - can relieve headaches of different origins.

Stress

Some oils - including bergamot, chamomile, lavender, lemon melissa, marjoram, neroli, petitgrain, rose, sandalwood, and valerian – relieve stress (even slowing brain waves).
Stress is the term used to describe any reaction to a physical, mental or emotional stimulus that upsets the body's natural balance.

Depression

Antidepressant qualities are found in some oils such as angelica, bergamot, cardamom, chamomile cinnamon, clary sage, clove, cypress, lavender, lemon verbena, lemon, melissa, orange, neroli, petitgrain, rose, and ylang-ylang (a tropical Asian tree).
Aromatherapy is an alternative theatment that uses the highly concentrated essential oils that are extracted from plants to treat symptoms and assist in the healing process. Treatments for depression are aimed at revitalizing the body and mind and lifting the spirits to promote a sense of wellbeing with beautiful scents. Invigorating oils help to awaken the body and mind.

Stimulation

Many oils - including angelica, basil, benzoin (from a southeast Asian tree), black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, clove, cypress, ginger, jasmine, peppermint, rosemary, and sage - will stimulate and keep you alert.

Bacterial Infections

Oils isolated from bay laurel, cinnamon, clove bud, garlic, oregano, savory, and thyme are powerful antibacterial agents (albeit potential skin irritants). More gentle antibacterial oils include bay rum, benzoin, cardamom, eucalyptus, frankincense, geranium lavender, lemon, lemongrass, marjoram, myrrh, myrtle, pine rose, sage, and tea tree.
These oils can treat infections of the skin, bladder, bowel, ear, gum, sinus, skin, and throat. The nature of the infection will determine whether the oils are inhaled or rubbed on the skin.

Viral Infections

Often ingredients in cough drops and cold and flu medications, many oils also have antiviral properties. These oils include bay, bergamot, black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon bark, clove bud, eucalyptus, garlic, geranium, holy basil, juniper, lavender, melissa, lemongrass, lemon, marjoram, myrrh, oregano, rose, rosemary sage, tea tree, and thyme.

Nutrition

Essential oils are concentrated, volatile liquids derived from the leaves, barks, roots, flowers, resins, or seeds of some seven hundred plants. They are produced principally by steam distillation and are sold in small quantities, typically an ounce or less. Because essential oils are so potent, only a few drops are needed to treat most conditions.
Herbalists and aromatherapists apply essential oils topically, usually after dilution, through massage, compresses, or by adding them to a bath. Essential oils are also inhaled by dispersing a few drops in liquid that is then sprayed in a mist or evaporated to create steam. Essential oils are rarely taken orally and then only under the supervision of a knowledgeable practitioner. They affect the psyche by influencing mood, emotions, and sexual arousal or relaxation, and they affect the body by promoting the healing of wounds, clearing lung congestion, and relieving pain.

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Legs pains: General Precautions

Essential oils are very concentrated. Their safe use requires they be treated with care and respect. The user should be knowledgeable about their properties and actions before any use. Most personal applications (for example legs pains...) require drops rather than ounces... Click here for more information.

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