Essential Oils and Surgery
Gary Young, speaking at the 2006 USA Convention:
I have been working with Cinterandes - a non-profit organisation that funds a mobile surgery unit in Ecuador. The purpose of this unit is to go into the far reaches of Ecuador, and perform surgeries at no cost on people in need. It takes 17 to 18 hours to travel 120 miles into the Amazon and back out again. The doctor's volunteer one week a month for this unit, and are often working from 8am to 1am daily, so it's hard work.
In November 2005, I was asked to assist in performing surgery because one of the other surgeons didn't turn up. I've been helping out with the surgeries ever since. However - this is the first time in history that oils have been allowed into surgery, for pre and post operative care, and documented.
I treated a man who was on a morphine drip 24 hours a day. This was July 27th. 48 hours later he was off the morphine, and by August 14th he had no pain. I had put him on 225 drops of GLF, and "VHP" 6 times a day. VHP is a mix of Valerian, Helichrysum, Clove and Peppermint. GLF is not available in Australia, however it is the Juvacleanse oil formula with the addition of Grapefruit, Hyssop and Spearmint oils.
I've worked on 132 surgery patients using oils. These patients were operated on for anything from hysterectomy to appendicitis to hernia, and none of them needed any painkiller post-surgery. We achieved 100% pain control with VHP.
I've noticed that during surgery, the neutrophils (white blood cells) elevate rapidly, reaching levels of 33,000. They stay elevated for 36 to 78 hours (on average 48 hours). This traumatises the liver, which sends the neutrophils to the spleen. The spleen then is also in overload, and sends the neutrophils back to the liver, from where they enter the blood stream and are toxic to the body (thus overloading the immune system, the circulatory system and the heart, in addition to the spleen and liver). This neutrophil spiking engages the sympathetic nervous system, which then excites the adrenal glands. This in turn spikes cortisol, adrenalin and noradrenalin, and also free serotonin. This overloads the neurocortex of the brain. All these chemicals are acidic, and you also have the acid from the overproduction of neutrophils. This acid switches off human growth hormone (HgH), and affects the release of CRF and thyroid stimulating hormone (thus promoting depression and hypothyroidism).
So we want to be able to keep the neutrophils in check during and after an operation. If oils are given after surgery, the neutrophil count is brought into balance within 6 to 12 hours.
I discovered a formula of essential oils that doesn't elevate the white blood cells at all during surgery - and it doesn't matter whether that formula is given orally or topically. As a result, people are healing 30 to 40% faster than the patients who don't receive oils. I had an operation after I ruptured my intestines. It involved 7 hours of surgery. One and a half hours later I was walking around without needing any pain pill, and 4 or 5 days later I was back at work (whereas the doctors thought I would spend 24 hours in bed). I knew my adrenals would be exhausted from the operation and my neutrophil count would go up. I knew I needed to use Vetiver and Valerian over my brainstem, and Helichrysum over my lower abdomen. Then when I came out of surgery I was drinking these 3 oils, and peppermint in there for taste.
I found that using essential oils pre-surgery allows the patient to come out of anaesthetic during the recovery period in the operating room (ie. Very fast). Children going into surgery without oils are coming out of surgery kicking and screaming (eg. after hernia operations). We don't find this in children who have the oils pre-surgery
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This is only 2 people, so we need 1000 cases before a paper can be written about it. But we do observe that there were different results with topical versus internal use of oils. You would have thought the older person would have more spiking than the child, but this was not so - the effect of using oils topically was better than taking them internally.
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