If there is more information available about the use of certain essential oils aromatherapy for specific applications, the well-known connections become important benchmarks for quality that is paramount in the perception of the market value soon. In essence, to evolve the compound levels to a quality metric in the market.
An example of this would be an expectation of a high level of carvacrol in oil of oregano (Origanum vulgare) or kavalactones in kava kava (Piper methysticum). it is these links that are often considered as the active ingredients (from the allopathic point) and they are the main ingredient of interest, and so the market drivers.
Recently (2/9/2010) BBC News ran the story 'Wierook – a cure for cancer? ' that the discoveries of joint field investigations between an overseas immunologist and medical scientists from the University of Oklahoma discusses.
The immunologist, Mahmoud Suhail, has noted that frankincense oil arrests the spread of cancer and cancer cells induces to close itself.
He is quoted saying "cancer starts when the DNA code inside of the cell nucleus becomes corrupted. it seems incense has a reset function. It can tell the cell what the correct code should be DNA. "
"Incense [oil] separates the" brain "of the cancer cell – the core of the body-the cytoplasm, and close down the key to stop the display of damaged DNA codes."
While this information seems promising for many, the balance of the article on to discuss the non-holistic ideology behind their current efforts to isolate the responsible compound, although she probably wouldn't say it that way.
In short, they admit that the frankincense oil by itself works, but they are trying to get the list of the 17 possible agents (insulated connections within the oil) confine.The reason they give is that some of the connections (although they don't call them) are allergen, so it cannot be managed as a whole oil.
Meanwhile, the current alternative for a treatment that possibly allergenic bombardment with radiation that is so toxic that every hair falls out on someone's body together with nails and toe nails that completely black just prior to the fall is. BUT, they don't want something that someone would have an allergic reaction to manage?
Makes you wonder if these guys ever heard the term 'therapeutische margin ' in their long years of medical studies? Certainly they have, but the bottom line is not about possible allergens, it is about the isolation of a substance that they can plunder of nature and then as a pharmaceutical patent. they will spend millions of dollars on research to see if a "nature identical" (lab) compound will do the same, but costs a lot less than cultivating of incense, and then they will not bother with the nature.
In the meantime, the demand for frankincense oil will rise and prices will rise. the good news for the aromatherapy world is that after the dust settles, the prices for incense is likely to level off at a reasonable point because the pharmaceutical manufacturers are not interested in the further use of something natural. the bad news is that, while they themselves position to control one of the most valuable markets in the healthcare, will people continue to choose for undergoing chemotherapy because they do not feel that they have another choice.
In the article, the "small" doses of isolated compounds that they manage discuss are never quantified, nor is the method of administration, but it states that in the coming months, they should have determined the compound within frankincense oil that cancer, or at least some forms of cancer.
So, in the short term, the increase in the demand for frankincense oil driving the price up as soon as the news really spreads, and there will be a newly appointed market driver that an expected level within the oil. That percentage is the new benchmark which will be expected to have an oil of quality.
Of course, with human nature as enterprising as it is, will this new information lead to more cases of chemical degradation of some of the oil on the market to increase the value by adding that enough of the new-key isolate the really distilled oil to a standardized product with a stable market-value. therefore, is more test measures necessary to ensure pure frankincense oil, but that is a matter for another post.
Life Life. go Pure!
Michael
Tags: cancer, frankincense oil, quality standard
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