Twelve Essential Oils of the Bible: Ancient Healing Oils and Their Contemporary Uses

by Karin Opitz-Kreher, Johannes Huber

Overview

A full-color guide to the healing power of the 12 most important essential oils mentioned in the Bible

• Explores 12 essential oils: cassia, galbanum, myrrh, myrtle, spikenard, onycha, sandalwood, frankincense, hyssop, cedar, cistus, and cypress

• Details, for each oil, its Bible verses, historical information, botanical and chemical components, uses in folk medicine, and modern uses for healing and well-being, including simple recipes and daily practices

• Explains how essential oils and herbal medicine played a role in biblical times and in general history

Health Essential Oils have been used for healing purposes since ancient times. Oils anointed newborns and kings and were employed to care for the body and treat the sick. The Bible specifically mentions at least 33 different essential oils and refers the aromatic herbs, resins, and incense more than a thousand times.

Distilling the essence of this healing wisdom, Karin Optiz-Kreher and Johannes Huber explain the ancient uses of essential oils, both for ritualistic and health purposes, and they examine the detail the 12 most important essential oils mentioned in the bible.

The essential oils in the full-color guide are cassia, galbanum, myrrh, myrtle, spikenard, onycha, sandalwood, frankincense, hyssop, cedar, cistus, and cypress. Each oil is described, beginning with the Bible verses that refer to it, followed by historical information about the oil, its botanical and chemical components, its uses in folk medicine, and its modern applications for healing and well-being, including simple recipes and daily practices.

Learn all you need to know about these powerful oils from the scriptures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781644117668
Publisher:	Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Publication date:	04/18/2023
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Karin Opitz-Kreher is trained in Aura-Soma, Aura-Soma bodywork, and foot reflexology harmonization. She also works as a meditation group leader following Ralph Jordan and as a biofeedback therapist, using the SCIO system for stress reduction and system harmonization. She discovered the world of essential oils in 2013 and has been making use of the traditional knowledge of oils in her work ever since. Karin also gives seminars on their use in energy work. Johannes Huber is an alternative practitioner whose interest in essential oils goes back to his youth. He has been working with them in aromatherapy and in the care of the sick and elderly for more than ten years. The focus of his work also includes darkfield microscopy diagnosis.
Karin Opitz-Kreher runs her own wellness practice specializing in stress reduction and harmonization. Trained in Aura-Soma, Aura-Soma Bodywork, and foot reflexology, since 2013 she also incorporates traditional knowledge of essential oils in her practice and teaches about them in workshops. She lives in Germany.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Medicinal Plants and Essential Oils in Evolutionary and Biblical History

Twelve Essential Oils of the Bible
Cassia, Chinese Cassia (Cinnamomum cassia)
Galbanum (Ferula galbaniflua)
Myrrh (Commiphora myrrha)
Myrtle (Myrtus communis)
Spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi)
Onycha/Frankincense of Java (also known as Styrax benzoin, benzoin, and gum benjamin)
Sandalwood (Santalum album)
Frankincense (Boswellia cateri)
Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis)
Cedarwood, Atlas (Cedrus atlantica)
Cistus (Cistus ladanifer/labdanum)
Cypress (Cupressus)

Alternative oils:
Vetiver (Vetiveria zizaniodes)
Elemi (Canarium luzonicum)

General Tips

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

About the Authors

Picture Credits