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Ep 27: Doc's Herbal Corner: Eucalyptus

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Host David Maloof explores the many benefits of eucalyptus oil with expert Dr. Stephen Tates. They discuss the various uses of eucalyptus oil, including its ability to reduce inflammation, relieve sinus congestion, repel pests, and improve brain function. 

They also highlight its effectiveness in treating respiratory issues, disinfecting surfaces, relieving pain, and promoting healing. However, they caution that eucalyptus oil should not be used around infants, pregnant women, or individuals with certain sensitivities. Overall, eucalyptus oil is a versatile and powerful natural remedy for a wide range of health concerns.

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Eucalyptus oil has numerous benefits, including reducing inflammation, relieving sinus congestion, repelling pests, and improving brain function.

It can be used to treat respiratory issues, disinfect surfaces, relieve pain, and promote healing.

However, eucalyptus oil should not be used around infants, pregnant women, or individuals with certain sensitivities.

Overall, eucalyptus oil is a versatile and powerful natural remedy for a wide range of health concerns.

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eucalyptus. It doesn't just smell great, it does way more things that I bet you realize. Let's change that.

 

Hello everyone, welcome to Adventures in Good Health. You have entered Doc's Herbal Corner. I am your host, David Maloof. Today, we are going to talk about eucalyptus. And our expert is Dr. Stephen Tates. Dr. Tates is a naturopath, master herbalist, and he has over half a century of herbal medicine experience. So let's jump right in as we talk eucalyptus with Dr. Tates.

 

Okay, Doc, thank you very much for joining the show. Thank you for having me. All right, so now what are we going to talk about today? Eucalyptus leaf. Ooh. Yeah, but actually - like the way eucalyptus smells. Oh, it's a great smell. Oh, I like that one. It's a tremendous smell. But in particular, the eucalyptus oil, because eucalyptus can be used as a tea, but - Okay.

 

One of the more effective ways is eucalyptus oil, the aroma, okay, in some way, because where the eucalyptus leaves are inhaling or smelling that, like at a diffuser or something like that, actually contributes to reducing inflammation because of the scent and the smell on the property. So this is kind of taking it.

 

away from just like, you know, the herbs and stuff, but you're dealing with the, you know, the smell. Okay. Well, it's a natural approach, but I think there's some, like some chest rubs are there that people use that has that eucalyptus smell and they can breathe it in. Is that the general idea? Yeah, that's the general idea. Eucalyptus is also known to help drain the sinuses when it's sinuses are clogged, you know, by spraying it.

 

you know, on a spray around the house or having it in a diffuser if you dropped or if you got the sinus congestion, the old -fashioned way where you have some hot water in a pot or a bowl, dropped a few drops of eucalyptus oil in the hot water, covered your head with a towel, inhale to help open up the sinuses. It's that kind of way of using eucalyptus oil. But I want to explain, you know...

 

just what eucalyptus will do. So I'll be looking at some of the notes because there's a lot and then go into the explanation of it, okay? Okay, perfect. Eucalyptus helps with coughs, colds, sinus infections, congestion, can relieve allergies, ease headaches, help with coughs. So.

 

And that helps because with all this upper area with the sinuses and stuff, infections up in the sinuses, the aroma itself opens up and helps that start to drain down away from the head, not out through the skin, but down from the head and the sinuses and the ears, you know, past the lymph glands and stuff and out of the system.

 

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Adventures in Good Health 2024, you will receive 10 % off your entire order. For more information, click the links below and now back to the show. So it was good, you know, as something you inhale, something you breathe and it smells nice, but it opens stuff up and helps you drink. One of the other things that's important about it is that the eucalyptus is the anti  inflammatory.

 

So you know how I feel about stuff that reduces inflammation because all of this is congested. So it's loosening it up, reducing the inflammation and helping to start to drain. So it helps with that. But even more than that, eucalyptus like in your home, in a diffuser wards off mosquitoes and you know.

 

rodents, roaches, all that kinds of stuff. The creepy crawly things that try to sneak into your house because they cannot stand that strong eucalyptus smell. Okay? Okay. It's used to, for coughs and stuff like that. And that's why they have that eucalyptus, sometimes eucalyptus and peppermint ointments that you can massage into the chest or something to help with relaxing, draining.

 

and reducing and eliminating that cough in the body. It's a disinfectant. It helps with dandruff. It's also an antimicrobial, which in English means that, you know, microbes, harmful microbes and bacteria, you know, it helps clear out of the air, clear out of the environment.

 

clear out of your body. So it helps with colds, flus, as I mentioned earlier, and infectious kind of colds and flus or infections in the body. So it helps, it helps with that tremendously. Okay. So along with that, it's an antiseptic means it cleans, you know, and it can be good on the surfaces. It can do antiseptic for swelling and pain, you know,

 

uh, massaging, you know, some of the oils, you know, that have the, um, the eucalyptus in it. Sometimes you could have some like shea butter or, you know, a special lotion and you can put a few drops of the eucalyptus oil in the lotion and rub it into the joints that are swollen and painful from arthritic pains and joint pain. And it helps reduce that pain. And.

 

remove the acids like the uric acid and other kinds of acids that contribute to the inflammation in that area of the body.

 

Wow. I know, yeah, I know. Who knew about that? It's an antioxidant. So it helps with destroying or preventing free radicals. Now understand, I'm explaining this all using eucalyptus oil for external uses. Most of what we talked about is internal.

 

But many of your herbs and stuff can be used in oils and liniments. And as we go through future podcasts, it won't be just what you take internally, but what you can do externally, whether you're breathing it or rubbing it into the skin. So you can get your favorite lotion and you got that joint pain from workouts or working in the garden or just, you know, arthritic stuff.

 

And it really, really helps reduce that inflammation and helps reduce that pain. People are actually - When there's essential oils, like from eucalyptus, is that coming from the leaf? Is that extracted from That's coming from the leaf, absolutely. Coming from the leaf, okay. Coming from the leaf. Not from the flowers, not from the root, but coming from the leaf, okay? And it's a specialized process because stuff like eucalyptus leaves,

 

It's more of an extraction. You don't boil it, you know, because you killed the natural oils in it. So there's a different process in preparing that. But it's easier just to buy, you know, the pure eucalyptus oil, you know, in order to be able to use that. We talked about helping with swelling and pain as an antioxidant. It also helps with brain fog.

 

You know, brain fog, like, you know, it's like I'm forgetting things or my mind's been on too many things today and I can't think anymore. And you burning the eucalyptus in like a diffuser or something like that, it cuts down on the brain fog because it's keeping the nerves and stuff stimulated in the brain and it's draining. So if you've got a lot of writing or reading or...

 

you know, studying or something like that, it keeps your brain from shutting down on you. You know, I'm just saying, I can't take any more because it's just loosening up, you know, the tension from just your own thoughts or work you've got to do mentally that allows for better oxygen flow and circulation, which stimulates the memory concentration and functions of the brain.

 

that's good for reliefs coughs and colds, sinus infections, a good decongestion. Helps again with COPD and asthma and bronchitis. And that helps with, as I mentioned earlier, that three or four drops in a bowl of hot water covering your head, the old grandmother kind of remedy.

 

You know, for, um... Well, some people will also, they got these little oil, like, diffusers. Uh -huh. And I don't really know how they work, but, you know, it's got a little bit of water and they'll drop a couple of drops of the essential oil and it comes up as a very fine mist. It's a fine mist. Is that essentially the same? Is that doing more or less the same thing? That's thing. That's a diffuser. That's essentially the same thing. I got a couple of diffusers in my house, you know?

 

and I'll put water in there and I'll drop a few drops and it heats it up really quickly or just mix, sometimes just mix with the water and it creates that scent very quickly and it covers the whole house and it's got a nice smell to it, you know. So as well as disinfecting. People with the flu,

 

or high temperatures or fevers, use in the oil and with some lotion on the chest, the front and back of the chest helps open it up and drain. Breathing helps open it up and drain that congestion we talked about earlier. So I'm given different categories that the eucalyptus can be used in order to help that body function better.

 

I like shea butter in particular, okay, but if you do shea butter, you want the unscented kind, because it defeats the purpose if you're going to use shea butter and eucalyptus oil and you have some kind of other scent to it. Not a good mixture, okay? Some people use it as a massage oil. I have some massage therapists in the office I'm in today.

 

And I can smell the eucalyptus. They have made their own massage oil, you know, with some shea butter or some other oil, and I can smell the eucalyptus. Sometimes I can smell the eucalyptus and peppermint together. You know, it's just, that's a good mixture together. Because I have a diffuser at home and I got some eucalyptus oil and some peppermint oil. I put a couple of drops of that. Oh, that smells so good. Just opens everything up.

 

Just helps that helps that drink. It's also good for sore throat. You can drop, you know, one drop to a cup of warm water and gargle. Don't swallow. So you can have that. You can gargle, reduces inflammation around the gums. Helps with that sore throat thing where you're not having to go and...

 

and buy some chemical junk you deal with your sorthorpeid. Typically, you'd want to start with one drop, maybe two, you know, because you don't need much. You don't need much because the eucalyptus oil is really strong. Now...

 

It helps with the immune system and helps with the immune system because it destroys that fungus and bacteria and reduces that inflammation that we talked about. And we've talked about this before, anything that helps that blood flow move better is only going to help the body start to function and help in its own healing a lot better. This is eucalyptus. Sore muscles, sore joints.

 

helps with stiffness, sprains. After strenuous exercises, you can massage that in to calm the muscles down, to soothe the muscles. Helps with, as I said before, swelling, inflammation. I find with a lot of my people that end up with those bad headaches, migraine -type headaches, having the...

 

or menstrual cycle headaches that women will tend to have. You know, can, you know, burn the eucalyptus in a diffuser and it helps with that. It also helps with women going through menopause because of the inflammation and disruptors of their system. It helps, helps everything move better throughout the body. And this is plain.

 

Eucalyptus, okay, helps with insect bites and stuff, ant bites, mosquito bites. And you make - Does it actually heal the insect bite or does it just, does it stop the itching? Both. First it stops the itching. Then it speeds up the healing because it reduces the inflammation. And remember I said it's a microbial, so it helps me deal - Antimicrobial. Yeah. So -

 

It's helping with infections and stuff. So it does both. First, it gets rid of the itching, okay? Insect bites, bee stings, stuff like that. It's really good for helping that heal better. Now, it also relieves sunburn.

 

I did not know that. Yeah, yeah. Two to four drops of eucalyptus and a teaspoon of guess what? What do you think would be a good mixture of the eucalyptus? I know you're not gonna be able to guess, you know, that works to help with sunburn. That's pure aloe vera gel. Okay. Wonder if it's on here. Because I was actually gonna guess.

 

Pure, or not pure, aloe vera gel. A gel, how they said aloe vera? Maybe? Well, see, well, yeah, see, you're on the, but the gel, the juice tends to be more, the aloe vera juice tends to be more internally. The gel tends to be more externally, because the aloe vera gel has been known to help with first and second degree burns. We know that, especially the fresh plant, okay? But then, you add a little bit of eucalyptus oil.

 

You know, two to four drops of the aloe vera on the area you burn. Now you got two powerful ingredients that help with sunburn, you know, or burnt skin from sitting out in the sun too long. So that combination works very well. It helps fight fungus infections. We talked about that before because it's all of this.

 

Antifungal properties in it. Okay, you can mix it with coconut oil it helps keep rodents away chase bed bugs away chase mosquitoes Anything because the smell is too strong for this sensitive system, you know, so sometimes when you're dealing with

 

you know, broaches or something like that. And you don't want to use some of that, you know, chemical sprays that we breathe in that stuff in. Adding the eucalyptus oil with another oil, like it could be olive oil or some of that kind of oil, and spray around the areas where they would tend to pop up. They'll move over to the next door neighbor's house. Okay? And leave you alone. Now, you can't help the next door neighbor.

 

But it's like they're being evicted. It's like, oh man, I gotta leave here now because of them using that secret weapon. It's like a raid to roaches. And you start spraying it to help to kill that. Well, they won't necessarily kill them, but it'll chase them away. It'll be like they can't stand that smell because you know how strong that is. And that's just not gonna work for them.

 

That's a lot of what the eucalyptus is about. Now you can't take it as a tea, but you also want to use it as an oil. Now, who, you've always asked me, who can't take the eucalyptus oil? Some people are sensitive to all kinds of perfumes or essential oils anyway, even though they're beneficial. So those people obviously fall into.

 

You don't want to use eucalyptus around babies. Too strong. Okay. Children, I want to say children under five, but especially infants. Okay. All right. So children under five can be very sensitive. You don't want to use it around infants, but especially babies. Yeah. Pregnant women. Elderly people who are convalescent or stationary.

 

Okay, it's not good and some people who are asthmatic, you know and having that problem with breathing and stuff because it may open it up too quick, but you know young babies pregnant mothers You know, you know that smell is just too strong and too irritating Other than that unless you have a unique sensitivity to smell and I know some people that they can't stand

 

any essential oils, any fragrance oils, any perfume oils. They just don't wear none of that kinds of stuff or put that on. So there's some people with that unique sensitivity. Other than that, everybody else is fine, you know, as far as the draining. I have some of my young ladies that were suffering with migraines and stuff or menstrual cycle, headaches and stuff. And I've started...

 

You know, recently, um, recommended them to use the eucalyptus oil in the diffuser. So they got the diffuser, started using the eucalyptus oil, those migrating kind of headaches and stuff, you know, it just eases it, you know, because they have that kind where they're light sensitive, you know, the lights, you know, the lights gotta be out, the TV's gotta be out.

 

You know, everything's got to be docked. They can't stand any noises. And as they start using the eucalyptus oil in the diffuser or sprayed in the house, you know, it is just really, really help ease and get rid of the migraines so much faster because it's opening it up and draining the congestion and tightness in the head down and out through their body.

 

That's a long list of things that eucalyptus can do. I mean, I've obviously, the chest rub, I've heard of it in diffusers. I did not know there was a T. And you got the head thing with the hot water and a few drops to breathe that in. water, a few drops of the essential oil, or wow.

 

The joint pain. That covered a lot of ground. Yeah, joint pain, remember with the aloe vera and stuff like that. Or for burns and stuff like that. I was about to say, the sunburn aloe vera gel. Uh -huh. Yeah. And a few drops of the eucalyptus oil. Of the eucalyptus. Yeah. And then massage that in the areas that gently that that sunburn. And first, it will get rid of the sunburn pain.

 

and I just got rid of some burn pain, then it's just gonna make everything just work so much better. Doc, we definitely appreciate you taking time to educate us on the powers of eucalyptus. Yeah, absolutely. You know, because I like to expand, you know, so that people get new, new herbs, new experiences, you know, so that, you know, that would work well.

 

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