Frankincense is one of the most powerful therapeutic grade essential oils I have had experience with for cancer, asthma and inflammation. It proved miraculous for my mother-in-law, who was dying of cancer, time and time again has helped me heal my son's asthma in just a day one time and a few days other times, and healed my teeth. Please read Healing stories for more information.
From Essential Desk Reference:
"Medical Benefits: Frankincense has been used as an anticancer agent for its ability to turn off the DNA of cancer cells and return the DNA to a healthy state. Frankincense oil has also been discovered to regenerate disc, cartilage, and bone."
I feel privileged to be able to use Frankincense, which used to be worth more than gold.
Please read the research on Pubmed
Additionally, Frankincense is great for improving mood. (please read more here)
In fact, Frankincense tree is the oldest tree written about. For more in-depth information, please watch this video:
28 DAYS TO KILL CANCER CELLS - SACRED FRANKINCENSE- DR. SUHAIL'S RESEARCH
Gary Young describes how essential oils were used in old times in his book The Gift:
“mixed the myrrh oil with the paste from myrrh resin, wrapped it with flax linen, and placed it on the wound.” Or use Frankincense resin soaked in oils “packed N’s cuts with a paste of myrrh & Frankincense mixed with balsam oil to repair the skull fracture.
“changed dressings, and putting the drops of Frankincense and cistus in camel milk, and honey on your lips.
“K had half the men boiling myrrh, balsam, galbanum, frankincense and cistus and mixing the paste with honey and mustard for the wraps to be put on your woulds and kept changing them every hour, without fail
Kaleb gave them 2 liters of cistus water with honey to drink, to prevent blood clotting.”
Frankincense is not a hot essential oil, which makes it easy to use. I have even taken it internally with water, and directly on the gums.
It is important to know that there are only two species of Frankincense which are healing, of which only Young Living carries Sacred Frankincense. The quality of Young Living is only one of a few (1% in the world), which can be trusted.
https://sites.google.com/site/younglivingeu/home/using-essential-oils-in-hospitals-research/rebuttal
Frankincense (Boswelia carteri) has the following key constituents:
Alpha Pinene (28-49%)
Limonene (10-16%)
Sabinene ( 3 - 7%)
Myrcene ( 8 -12%)
Beta Caryophyllene ( 3 - 7%)
Alpha Theoyene ( 4 - 8%)
Paracymine ( 2 - 5%)
ORAC: 630 pTE/100g
Frankincense , Sacred (Boswelia sacra)'s key constituents are:
Alpha Pinene (53-90%)
Camphene ( 3- 4%)
Sabinene ( 1 - 7%)
Para-cymene (0.4- 4%)
Limonene (2- 7.5%)
Here is the educational video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1giDlLuuPp4
For more information and copies of pages on Frankincense from the Essential Oils Desk Reference, please follow this link:
http://eugeniyamusic.blogspot.com/2012/12/myrrh-and-frankincense-for-holidays.html
Historical uses:
(from my post https://sites.google.com/site/younglivingeu/home/essential-oils---introduction/essential-oils-fragrances )
Esther, the Persian Queen Who Saved the Jews, before attending the banquet, bathed in Frankincense, and wore a linen bag around her neck with Patchouli and Myrrh to give her courage to speak to the king.
The priests knew the importance of the biochemical response the human body and mind achieved by inhaling a scent such as Frankincense. They sought to uplift the citizens, emotionally and spiritually, through the transformational fragrance at large gatherings.
For deodorants they put little balls of myrrh or balsam incense where the limbs met the body. They often used an ointment of Frankincense and honey as a moisturizer or for a burn. They chewed fennel seeds for their breath and Frankincense to keep their teeth clean.
These are some of the plants described by Dioscorides and promoted by the Women’s Evangelistic Corps:
Frankincense (Boswelia carteri): for the nervous and endocrine system
Zуnobia would sprinkled a few drops of Clove oil into her bath water and sometimes on her food. It gave her a tingling feeling of strength and health. She frequented the perfumer's bazaar at a market in Palmyra, where scents of aromatic gums like Frankincense from Oman. To fully invoke the presence of Cleopatra, Zenobia filled her rooms with the fragrance of Frankincense, Juniper, and Rose.
Resins such as Frankincense, Benzoin and Myrr were dissolved directly in the vegetable oil base.
Research info: http://eugeniyamusic.blogspot.com/2013/05/notes-from-young-living-convention.html
Here is information from the E-mails I've sent in the past:
From: Eugeniya [mailto:rainbow1_9@msn.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 4:37 PM
To: Eugeniya
Subject: more on Frankincense
Class,
I don’t think I sent you this one:
Frankincense: Could it be a cure for cancer? – BBC World News
The gift given by the wise men to the baby Jesus probably came across the deserts from Oman. The BBC’s Jeremy Howell visits the country to ask whether a commodity that was once worth its weight in gold could be reborn as a treatment for cancer.
Oman’s Land of Frankincense is an 11-hour drive southwards from the capital, Muscat.
Most of the journey is through Arabia’s Empty Quarter – hundreds of kilometers of flat, dun-coloured desert. Just when you are starting to think this is the only scenery you will ever see again, the Dhofar mountains appear in the distance.
On the other side are green valleys, with cows grazing in them. The Dhofar region catches the tail-end of India’s summer monsoons, and they make this the most verdant place on the Arabian peninsula.
Warm winters and showery summers are the perfect conditions for the Boswellia sacra tree to produce the sap called frankincense. These trees grow wild in Dhofar. A tour guide, Mohammed Al-Shahri took me to Wadi Dawkah, a valley 20 km inland from the main city of Salalah, to see a forest of them.
“The records show that frankincense was produced here as far back as 7,000 BC,” he says. He produces an army knife. He used to be a member of the Sultan’s Special Forces. With a practiced flick, he cuts a strip of bark from the trunk of one of the Boswellia sacra trees. Pinpricks of milky-white sap appear on the wood and, very slowly, start to ooze out.
“This is the first cut. But you don’t gather this sap,” he says. “It releases whatever impurities are in the wood. The farmers return after two or three weeks and make a second, and a third, cut. Then the sap comes out yellow, or bright green, or brown or even black. They take this.”
Shortly afterwards, a frankincense farmer arrives in a pick-up truck. He is white-bearded, wearing a brown thobe and the traditional Omani, paisley-patterned turban.
He is 67-year-old Salem Mohammed from the Gidad family. Most of the Boswellia sacra trees grow on public land, but custom dictates that each forest is given to one of the local families to farm, and Wadi Dawkah is his turf.
Camel train
He has an old, black, iron chisel with which he gouges out clumps of dried frankincense.
“We learnt about frankincense from our forefathers and they learnt it from theirs” he says. “The practice has been passed down through the generations. We exported the frankincense, and that’s how the families in Dhofar made their livings.”
And what an export trade it was. Frankincense was sent by camel train to Egypt, and from there to Europe. It was shipped from the ancient port of Sumharan to Persia, India and China. Religions adopted frankincense as a burnt offering.
That is why, according to Matthew’s Gospel in the Bible, the Wise Men brought it as a gift to the infant Jesus. Gold: for a king. Frankincense: for God. Myrrh: to embalm Jesus’ body after death.
The Roman Empire coveted the frankincense trade. In the first century BCE, Augustus Caesar sent 10,000 troops to invade what the Romans called Arabia Felix to find the source of frankincense and to control its production. The legions, marching from Yemen, were driven back by the heat and the aridity of the desert. They never found their Eldorado.
Oman’s frankincense trade went into decline three centuries ago, when Portugal fought Oman for dominance of the sea routes in the Indian and the Pacific Oceans.
Nowadays, hardly any Omani frankincense is exported. Partly, this is because bulk buyers, such as the Roman Catholic Church, buy cheaper Somalian varieties. Partly, it is because Omanis now produce so little.
“Years ago, 20 families farmed frankincense in this area,” says Salem Mohammed Gidad. “But the younger generation can get well-paid jobs in the government and the oil companies, with pensions. Now, only three people still produce frankincense around here. The trade is really, really tiny!”
Cancer hope
But immunologist Mahmoud Suhail is hoping to open a new chapter in the history of frankincense.
Scientists have observed that there is some agent within frankincense which stops cancer spreading, and which induces cancerous cells to close themselves down. He is trying to find out what this is.
“Cancer starts when the DNA code within the cell’s nucleus becomes corrupted,” he says. “It seems frankincense has a re-set function. It can tell the cell what the right DNA code should be.
“Frankincense separates the ‘brain’ of the cancerous cell – the nucleus – from the ‘body’ – the cytoplasm, and closes down the nucleus to stop it reproducing corrupted DNA codes.”
Working with frankincense could revolutionize the treatment of cancer. Currently, with chemotherapy, doctors blast the area around a tumour to kill the cancer, but that also kills healthy cells, and weakens the patient. Treatment with frankincense could eradicate the cancerous cells alone and let the others live.
The task now is to isolate the agent within frankincense which, apparently, works this wonder. Some ingredients of frankincense are allergenic, so you cannot give a patient the whole thing.
Dr Suhail (who is originally from Iraq) has teamed up with medical scientists from the University of Oklahoma for the task.
In his laboratory in Salalah, he extracts the essential oil from locally produced frankincense. Then, he separates the oil into its constituent agents, such as Boswellic acid.
“There are 17 active agents in frankincense essential oil,” says Dr Suhail. “We are using a process of elimination. We have cancer sufferers – for example, a horse in South Africa – and we are giving them tiny doses of each agent until we find the one which works.”
“Some scientists think Boswellic acid is the key ingredient. But I think this is wrong. Many other essential oils – like oil from sandalwood – contain Boswellic acid, but they don’t have this effect on cancer cells. So we are starting afresh.”
The trials will take months to conduct and whatever results come out of them will take longer still to be verified. But this is a blink of the eye in the history of frankincense.
Nine thousand years ago, Omanis gathered it and burnt it for its curative and cleansing properties. It could be a key to the medical science of tomorrow.
Jeremy Howell reports for Middle East Business Report on BBC World News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8505251.stm – link to original article
From: Eugeniya [mailto:rainbow1_9@msn.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 7:06 PM
To: Eugeniya
Subject: interesting (stunning!) info on Frankincense
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=frankincense%20cancer
http://www.youngliving.com/en_US/audio/ColeWoolleyFrankincenseWebinar.mov
http://pointers.audiovideoweb.com/stcasx/ca20win15010/201111-EssentialNews.wma/play.asx
From: Eugeniya [mailto:rainbow1_9@msn.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 7:26 PM
To: Eugeniya
Subject: healing stories on Frankincense
Friends,
Some people find any excuse to live an unhealthy life, blaming genetics, etc. Someone today even has gone to mentioning a healthy homeless person who smoked and ate bad food (obviously!).
This was an argument coming from 2 women I conversed with in the frame shop today. It was a little bit upsetting for me to hear their conviction and no desire to even be open to any other info.. I wasn’t going to argue. Both women have health issues, seem irritable & take medicine. I guess not everyone “gets there”, or hopefully, take longer to understand a body-mind-nature balance.
My friend’s note comes to mind. She drank fresh wheat grass juice for a week or so, and wanted me to let you all know that her cholesterol went to normal!
“You are what you eat” still stands true. The essential oils help, but it’s up to the person to make changes in his/her life to stay well, EVERY DAY. Not easy, but we should strive to.
I copied these testimonials on frankincense from the Pinegroup, a Young Living Yahoo group.
I also updated the Cancer page (on the bottom) with another YL protocol..
https://sites.google.com/site/younglivingeu/home/using-oils-for-different-problems/cancer
Please remember that I also have a list of useful books I keep updating at the following link:
https://sites.google.com/site/younglivingeu/home/about-me-2/my-favorite-books
Thanks to Gary Young, Frankincense is now available in the West where the need for it has never been greater: Frankincense fights chronic inflammation, which an increasing number of medical researchers believe is the root cause of many diseases (i.e. heart disease, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia and Alzheimer's.
And the #1 cause of chronic inflammation? Stress..... Whether it's mental, physical or emotional, intense chronic stress causes the adrenal glands to work overtime, leading to chronic inflammation.
D. Gary Young believes Frankincense has the potential to be the #1 antidote for chronic inflammation. At Young Living's 2010 International Grand Convention, he stated that Frankincense's chemical compounds have as much anti-inflammatory properties as steroids - without the side effects. In addition to its action on the physical body, Frankincense also calms the mind and emotions, reducing all sources of stress. Dr. Joseph Mercola, author of the #1 natural health website writes, "I have seen Boswella (frankincense) work well with my rheumatoid arthritis patients. In one study of 176 patients with rheumatic disorders, 122 participants had reduced stiffness and inflamation just two to four weeks after starting on the frankincense.
Mankind's First Medicine
Essential Oils are often referred to as "Mankind's First Medicine". In fact, there are more than 200 references to aromatics, incense, and ointments throughout the Old and New Testaments of the Bible (36 of the 39 books of the Old Testament and 10 of the 27 books of the New Testament mention essential oils or the plants that produce them.) Frankincense is the most often essential oil mentioned in the bible. To listen to an interview about these Oils of the Ancient Scriptures, Click Here to Listen!
The Frankincense Trail - Oman, Yemen and Saudi Arabia by Kate Humble (BBC)
http://eugeniyamusic.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-frankincense-trail-oman-yemen-and.html
FRANKINCENSE FACTS
Boswellia sacra grows in Oman, Yemen and Somalia
Other Boswellia species grow in Africa and India
The tree may have been named after John Boswell, the uncle of Samuel Johnson’s biographer
In ancient Egypt frankincense was thought to be sweat of the gods
Source: The Pharmaceutical Journal
The Catholic church mostly buys Somalian frankincense
Salalah’s Haffa souk: The place to buy Omani brands such as Royal Hougari
Salem Mohammed: Young people prefer careers in oil or government
Boswellia sacra produces the highest-quality frankincense