Rose Oil

Ah, rose oil. The beautiful fragrance of Rosa damascena has been called intoxicating with aphrodisiac qualities. Science confirms that it does, indeed, stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain through the tiny amygdala - a mysterious gland aroused by aroma alone. How pleasant it is to be thus aroused and to discover that roses in their many varieties have proven themselves over the centuries in more mundane postures.

Rose has been documented for thousands of years, yes, thousands. Using rose oil began in Arabia with Avicenna, the physician, whose book on the healing attributes of the rose water derived from the distillation of rose survives to this day. In the beginning, this valuable essential oil was gleaned by enfleurage, pressing the petals along with vegetable oil. Almost all rose oils today are solvent extracted. Steam distillation, by far the better method, yields an exquisite substance called rose otto or attar of roses.

Ancient use calls for it in sexual debilities, frigidity, and impotency. After exchanging that unpleasantness for emotional satisfaction and its accompanying sense of well being, it was discovered that wrinkles, wounds, ulcers, scarring and all manner of skin conditions had also disappeared. We might wonder which came first — sex or the rose?

Rose, not content with gifts of fragrance and beauty to humanity, went on to prove important as an antihemorrhagic (stops bleeding) and as an anti-infectious agent. When modern names for diseases surfaced, but before the antibiotic age, Rosey rose up successfully for humanity against thrush, gingivitis, tuberculosis, asthma, chronic bronchitis and herpes simplex.

Even these accomplishments have not been enough for this queen of blossom. As tools have been designed to compare Hertzian frequency (oscillations per second of vibrational motion) in healthy cells at 70-78 MHz to that where disease begins at 60 MHz, we must look toward the heavens to see Rose. Her trellis goes all the way to 320 MHz - important because a higher frequency will entrain (pull up) a lower one every time. High frequency > high health.

The first real rose product I ever tried was Rose Ointment made by Young Living. One jar lasts a long time and gives me terrific value in its wide range of uses. There's no getting around the fact that therapeutic grade steam distilled pure essential oil of rose is as rare as it is costly. The human nose may be fooled by a synthetic substitute and it will be unlikely also to detect the presence of chemical solvents. But, you can't fool Mother Nature and expect to feel the true magic. Cheap derivatives just won't do you like Rose can do you, and you'll never really know this until you romance the one and only.

Fortunate for us and for the pretty flowers, (5000 lbs. petals > 1 lb. raw oil), the art and science of other essential oils in rose blends will amplify and accelerate this entrainment. Used as perfume or carrying the aroma on a necklace diffuser are two of my favorite everyday uses of essential oils.

Through rose-colored glasses,
Lynn
p.s. If rose doesn't do it for you - there's always chocolate.