You shouldn’t ingest essential oils. Essential oils are to be used as a time-release capsule by proper dilution of the oil on the skin to slowly get into the bloodstream. If you want to eat something instead of essential oils try the actual raw herb. When properly used you get good results.
Ingesting essential oils, especially multiple, undiluted essential oils, is never going to end well. In fact, I don’t advocate ingesting essential oils at all! No certified Aromatherapist will support this practice. Only … multi-level marketing companies suggest doing this. Sometimes some people mean well and follow these practices by MLM thinking it’s ok. But it’s not.
Every day practically I get emails, messages, and even phone calls from people who have done this telling me horror stories of their health affected by such practice and they turn to me for help.
Take a lesson from a report made by a 30-year-old woman to Aromatherapy United. She had 25 – 35 drops of lemon essential oil and a particular essential oil company’s (MLM) oils. She took all of these over a matter of 5 – 6 hours. She called the MLM Rep she bought the oils from and asked about why she was feeling poorly. The Rep said, “Your body is detoxing so do not worry about it. You cannot overdose on (MLM name) essential oils Because they are 100% pure therapeutic oils. ”
A few hours later, she experienced nausea, dry heaving, dizziness, high blood pressure, and a rapid heartbeat. Several days later she still felt nauseous and immediately went to the hospital. She was administered IV and saline to flush her system out. The doctor told her that he had treated her like a patient who overdosed on drugs because basically she had overdosed on highly concentrated essential oils and said she was lucky she got to the hospital in time or it could have been fatal for her. That is a scary thing to hear a doctor say to you.
Here’s more of her story:
“I had canker sores and was told by the (MLM) Rep that the [ MLM essential oils] are completely safe and fine to ingest. And that I can ingest as much as I wanted… I ended up in the ER… I thought I was going to die. The doctor told me I was very lucky! The woman I called who sells the oils said it wasn’t the oils and swore up and down I was fine and my body was detoxing and it wasn’t the oils and they can’t hurt and I can’t overdose on them. She is going to end up killing someone. People need to know that THESE ARE NOT SAFE TO INGEST PLAINLY.”
