Strengthen Immune System with Complementary Therapies

You have been several to ask about how to protect from the COVID-19.

Following its progression, today is all about how complementary therapiescan help to strengthen immunity to a warrior mode, and to be protected from viruses, such as:

• Naturopathy
• Phytotherapy
• Aromatherapy
• Chinese medicine
• Exercices

"Do feel free to share this newsletter with friends, family, neighbours... Many thanks :-)"

What is corona-virus (COVID-19)?

Covid-19 is part of the large family of corona-viruses.

This new virus, appeared in China late 2019, affects your lungs and airways, creating illnesses ranging from a common cold to much more severe conditions with difficulties and shortness of breathing.

If you are in good health condition and get this virus, we might have to stay in bed few days with a big cold and manage your fever, general feeling of weakness, fatigue, headache, coughing, feeling unwell... and it will pass.

But if you have chronic diseases, your immunity is low and in case of covid-19 presence, you could develop severe conditions.

That is why government asks people in contact with elderly people and immunodeficient beloved to be very careful.

Tips from a non-medical therapist

I am not a doctor. It means, I can not make medical prescriptions.

I just share advices following my own experience and my clientele one.

To leave people under fears crashes immunity down to the ground!
Then bang, people get sick...

So, rather than to react to fears, I decided to have a proactive approach.

Revitalise ourselves

• Good Sleep
• Connect with Nature
• Eat healthy
• Manage fear
• Move
• Vitamins and supplements

Those principles boost our immunity :-)

Have a good sleep

Resting is not optional. During our sleep, our body

• regenerates itself
• repairs
• our vital functions recover better

Naps are hardly recommended too, if you can.

Connect with Nature

It is not because we can not meet people, that we are not able to go and connect with Nature.
I live by the ocean and go by the sea to get fresh windy air, and it helps me to get more awareness.

Eat healthy

• Get fresh organic veg and fruits, full of natural vitamins and healthy sugar
• Be in consciousness when eating and chew well before to swallow. You will eat less. Your metabolism spends less time digesting and more time to build a good immunity
• Avoid, acid diet, gluten and processed sugar

Chinese medicine says to leave the dinner table not totally full as stomach will have space to process what has just been eaten to not overwhelmed digestive functions.

Manage emotions and fears

Those hard times force us to slow down and reflect.

Why not to start new practices?
Soothe your mind with

• relaxation
• box breathing
• self-massages
• yoga
• qi-gong...

You will find ***Some Useful Exercises*** at the end of this article.

Why not to attend virtual learning and get new skills?
Why not start journalling?

Bach and homeopathy remedies are quite efficient too :-)

• Cherry Plum is a Bach remedy for those who fear losing control of their thoughts and actions and doing things they know are bad for them or which they consider wrong. Teaches trust in one’s spontaneous wisdom and the courage to follow one’s path.
• Arsenicum Album is a homeopathic remedy that is very useful for anxiety about health, disease, germs and death. People who would benefit from this remedy are people who see the world as threatening and chaotic.

Essential oils

• all citruses, basil, pine, eucalyptus, lavender, cypress, Juniper, sandal wood, cedar wood, frankincense, tea tree, ravintsara, peppermint...
• Follow the dosage given by your burner supplier and drop few drops of each in a cotton fabric, that you leave on a heater source. Essential oils are volatile, so use t heat to multiply their diffusion

Move

• Regular physical activity decreases nervous tension, stress and bring great satisfactions to push yourself a bit further your comfort zone
• Even if exercises classes are now closed, at least in Galway, I am sure you have favourite exercises that you can do at home
• Just move :-)

Super foods & food supplements

Those below are super warrior to boost immunity

• Propolis
• Grapefruit extract
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin D
• Vitamin E
• Selenium
• Zinc
• Co Q10

Those are just examples, please do feel free to contact your therapist to get more directions. Thanks :-)

*** Some useful exercises ***

• Qi Gong with Ann Keenaghan
  • Exercise to strengthen and boost immunity
• Breathing with Pat Divilly and more
  • Wim Hof method and meditation
• Box Breathing
  • Medically reviewed by Timothy J. Legg, Ph.D., CRNP

And use social medias to learn new skills :-)

Hope it helps you to be more proactive to the aim to staying bright and grounded in those hard times.

Feel free to share with friends, if you think those infos are relevant :-)

Talk to you next Sunday :-)
With much Light, Love & Gratitude,
Céline

My Emergency Essential Oils Kit

Dear Aroma Fan,

What do you have in your medicine cabinet?

I can not talk for Irish people, but in France, lots of people store a massive amount of various types of medications that they sometimes do not even use.
You know the famous "just in case"!!!!

Rather than having unused conventional medications, I would like you to consider to have few essential oils bottles to built an emergency essential oils kit.

NB: I am not against conventional medications and medicine. But my first choice always goes for natural products and if it does not work (very rarely, I have to say) then I call my GP and get an appointment :-)

 

Alternative Medicine

Nowadays, alternative medicines get very popular.
More than one third of people use them going to the therapist and/or on their own.

In alternative medicine, plants can be transform to make:

• homeopathy granules
• Bach floral remedies
• herbal teas
• mineral powders
• etc...

Combine Aromatherapy & Homeopathy

Essential oils are very strong molecules. And if you use homeopathy remedies at the same time than essential oils, the last ones can suppress the subtle action of homeopathy remedies.

It doesn't mean you have to use one or other but if you want to combine their actions, better to be aware of:

• Store essential oils botlles and homeopathy remedies in different places
• Use your essential oils at least 1 hour after taking your homeopathy remedies
• If you use essential oils first, take homeopathy remedies 2 to 2.30 hour after using essential oils

My Essential Oils Top 5

Lavender Vera

• Latin name
  • Lavandula angustifolia
• Proprieties
  • Balance the nervous system
  • Powerful anti-spasmodic muscle relaxant
  • General and pulmonary antiseptic
  • Tonicardiach and calming nerves of the heart, hypotensive
  • Skin healing powerful, regenerating cutaneous in external use
  • Anti-inflammatory and remarkable analgesic
• Can be used in case of infectious, scarring or allergic skin disorders,  ulcers, stretch marks, cramps and muscle spasms, hypertension, palpitations, tachycardia, nervous disorders, rheumatism...
• If you want to start with essential oils, lavender vera is the one to start with :-)

Ravintsara

• Latin name
  • Cinnamomum camphora
• Proprieties
  • Exceptional Antiviral and microbicide
  • Immunostimulant
  • Stimulating cardiorespiratory system
• Can be used in case of cold, bronchitis, rhinopharyngitis, chills, pertussis, Infectious mononucleosis, plague, herpes zoster, herpes labialis and genital, Hepatitis and viral enteritis, severe immune deficiency, lymphatic drainage...

Everlasting

• Latin name
  • Helichrysum italicum
• Proprieties
  • Very powerful hematoma (Anti bruise)
  • Tonic of the blood circulation
  • Anticatarrhal, mucolytic (clears bronchi)
  • Regulates cholesterol
  • Antispasmodic and anti-inflammatory
  • Stimulates regeneration of liver cells
• Can be used in case of bruises (external and internal), even old, phlebitis, edema, blood circulation problems, rhinitis, bronchitis, bronchial congestion, carpal tunnel, arthritis, rheumatism, eczema, psoriasis, acne rosacea...

Help Needed

Dear Aroma fan, I would love to hear from you :-)
Which conditions who suffer from? Which infos, tips you want to know about essential oils? Any issues you want to get rig of with alternative remedies?

I want to adjust my newsletters to your specific needs.

So, do not hesitate to contact me: replying to this newsletter, through social media, texting, phoning or if we meet each other in Galway area just ask :-)

Many Thanks for your precious support,
dear Aroma Fan <3

Feel free to share with friends, if you think those infos are relevant :-)

With much Light, Love & Gratitude,

Life is full of ups and downs

"One minute you feel on top of the world.
Everything is going great.
Then all of sudden, everything is falling down.
And nothing is going right." Jesse Eker

It is what happened to me, almost 3 years ago when mum rang to tell that dad has just passed away. Went for exams and found a new home.

My daughter says at that time, "Daddo flies in the sky".

***

At the moment, I am travelling to Paris to complete the last module of the Chi Nei Tsang practitioner training.

I have been traveling once a month since last September with tonsils that don't like air conditioning.

To keep them safe, out of germs and bacterias, I travel with a small spray full of essential oils made with anti-fungal, viral, infectious, immune stimulant properties.

Germs and bacterias are vicious, especially in a plane. You can not ESCAPE!
So many people from different countries trapped in a closed environment breathing the same air. So amazing for creating a mutant germs cocktail!!!

But essential oils are very volatile and also travel very well and quickly through air conditioning ;-)

An aroma bodyguard spray

This formula is suitable for children, pregnant, nursing woman or epileptic people :-)

For a 15 ml bottle

•  Ravintsara (Cinnamomum Camphora) ~ 20 drops
•  Ginger (Zingiber Officinalis) ~ 10 drops
•  Tea Tree (Melaleuca Alternifolia) ~ 20 drops
•  Petit Grain (Citrus Aurantium ssp Amara) ~ 15 drops
•  Niaouli (Melaleuca Quinquenervia) ~ 10 drops
•  Alcohol (vodka or 60 degrees modified alcohol) ~ top up the bottle

Use it like a perfume

• One or two sprays before getting in the plane
• Spray your hand palms, rub them to get rid of alcohol & deeply breath in and out 3 times
• Avoid eyes and mouth spraying

In case of Jet lag

If you have to cope with jet lag during your journey, this formula works quite well:

• Lemon (Citrus Limon)
• Peppermint (Mentha Piperita)
• Ginger (Zingiber Officinalis)
  • In equal part in a bottle (10ml for instance, easy to travel with)
  • 1 drop 4 times a day for 3 days in intake with honey, sugar or bread
  • or
  • Deeply breath from the bottle if you don't feel comfortable to take in intake

If you have a tiny budget, and only can buy one essential oil, then buy

• Cinnamon (Cinnamomum Zeylanicum) essential oil
  • 1 drop 4 times a day for 3 days or deeply breath from the bottle 

This formula is for adult only

If you travel for Valentine's, Safe travel.

Warmly, Céline ;-)