Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/07/why-you-should-be-healing-your.html
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To the uninformed, essential oil diffusers may come off as nothing more than glorified air fresheners, but really they are just that, with some pseudo-science bullshit on top.
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They do smell nice though, and as far as medical woo goes, aromatherapy is pretty harmless.
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Well, like all those alternative medicines it’s armless as long it’s not pretending doing anything or causing treatment delay.
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With the added benefit of recording all your conversations for the convenience of DHS!
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so, uhm… most irritating chemicals are natural oils.
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Is this one of those market-based solutions that are being deployed to replace Obamacare? Was this Ivanka’s idea or Jared’s?
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Just remember this great video of Rebecca Watson :
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Unless it involves farts.
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Agreed, and some applications (topical and direct inhalation) and ingredients (cinnamaldehyde) are, in fact, dangerous. But loading up a diffuser with lavender oil and letting it run is pretty harmless.
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Oil of Methyl Mercaptan?
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The difference is that those use fragrances and food flavors. For room freshening, a diffuser lets you use essential oils, which setting aside the medical woo, can be really nice.
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The fundemental thing about alternative medicine is that its pretending to do something.
And a good lot of the treatments are actively harmful. As an example a number of stanislaus burzinki’s patients have died of hyper natremia, essentially massive sodium over dose. And his treatment is essentially super concentrated human wiz. There’s been a number of prominent deaths from aneurysm associated with chiropractic neck adjustments, including of children, the last few years.
Shit ain’t harmless.
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improve sleep, reduce stress, and prevent illness
Yoo hoo! FDA! Over here!
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Lavender oil?! Do you have any idea what’s in that? Nothing but chemicals!i Linalool! Linalyl acetate! 1,8-cineol! Camphor! beta-Caryophyllene! They don’t even quality control that stuff, it’s variable composition every time, you don’t even know what you’re getting! And none of that is listed on the bottle, man. It’s a conspiracy. Big Naturopathy doesn’t want you to know their product is full of unknown chemicals that nobody has ever tested for safety or efficacy! Wake up, sheeple!
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Essential oils, especially those containing limonene (citrus scents) and linalool (lavender) have been linked increased occurrence of a range of pulmonary conditions including tightness in the chest, wheezing and asthma; whilst there is some evidence from animal experiments that they might have long-term effects on motility.
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[citation please]
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I’m all for diffusing Amazon Alexas. Atomising, even.
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Forget it, it’s the Trump FDA.
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