Eucalyptus
Botanical Name: Eucalyptus globulus
Common Names and Synonyms: Blue Gum, Fever Tree
Background: The eucalyptus tree is one of the tallest in the
world growing to over 250 feet. Eucalyptus oil is used by herbalists
as an aromatic for respiratory conditions such as bronchitis and asthma.
The oil, distilled from the leaves and twigs, is antiseptic and antiviral
and has a scent of balsamic camphor.
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Eucalyptus in the Cayce Readings
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Edgar Cayce recommended eucalyptus as an ingredient in inhalant formulas
intended for all manner of respiratory ailments.
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Eucalyptus was typically recommended with other substances in a compound.
Although a wide diversity of formulas were given, the most common
substances mentioned in the same readings with eucalyptus were as follows:
| Turpentine or Oil of Turp |
325 readings |
| Benzoin |
242 readings |
| Tolu |
217 readings |
| Creosote |
146 readings |
| Canadian Balsam |
124 readings |
| Benzosol |
103 readings |
| Heroin |
50 readings |
| Pine Needle Oil |
29 readings |
| Camphor |
21 readings |
| Sassafras |
15 readings |
Cayce Quotes on Eucalyptus
1045-2
But in the room where there is the taking in of
the breath, let there be the fumes breathed into the body from a croup
cup or a kettle boiling. Into a gallon of the boiling water (or this
proportion, whether using the kettle or the croup cup), put a teaspoonful
of a solution made from equal parts of Tincture or Oil of Eucalyptus and
Oil of Pine Needles. With this boiled in the room, the air then becomes
such that when breathed it will make for a purifying of the tissue through
the nostril, through the mouth, through the throat and into the lungs themselves.
For these, then, will coordinate together.
1045-3
(Q) Should the vapors from the Oil of Pine Needles and Eucalyptus
be kept in the room constantly, or occasionally?
(A) WELL that these be kept, not too much of same all the time.
For the fumes of Pine and Eucalyptus are HEALING, as well as non-irritating
to the lung and throat.
901-2
At those periods when there is the tendency for
cold, or for the aching through the face and antrum, we would use an inhalant,
prepared in this way and manner; not as a spray but inhaling the fumes
of same:
To four ounces of Pure Grain Alcohol, add - IN THE
ORDER NAMED:
Oil of Eucalyptus........................20 minims,
Compound Tincture of Benzoin.............15 minims,
Oil of Turp...............................5 minims,
Tolu in Solution.........................30 minims.
Put this compound in a container at least twice the
size of the quantity, or an 8 ounce bottle, preferably colored, and having
a large mouth through which there would be two entrances through the cork
to the vacuum above the solution. The two small vents would also
be corked, except when being used. Shake the solution well when ready
to inhale, removing one cork and opening the other so that it may be inhaled
as one would a cigarette or a deep breath through the nostrils, and into
the mouth. This acts as an antiseptic, also alleviating those conditions
as will be eliminated from the areas by the use of the compound
to be massaged, and also the massage along the spine, given after the abdominal
treatments indicated.
1641-2
Then we would have prepared for this body this character
of inhalant, which will work with the activities of the organs for purifying
those areas through which sensory influences are at times clogged.
Thus we would prepare as this: Take at least a six ounce large-mouth
bottle. In this we would prepare two vents. These are not to
enter the solution. The vents should be so that they may be corked
when not in use. Then add these in the solution, put them in the order
named:
Grain alcohol (at least 90% proof)...........4 ounces,
Oil of Eucalyptus...........................20 minims,
Rectified Oil of Turp........................5 minims,
Rectified Creosote...........................2 minims,
Compound Tincture of Benzoin................15 minims,
Tolu in Solution............................20 minims.
When this is to be used, and use it on arising of
a morning and before retiring of evening, shake the solution together.
Then inhale deep through the nostril, either side of same, about twice.
Then in the throat once. These will act as purifiers and also will
assist the body-functionings as each of these have their effect upon the
activity of the organs themselves. The lungs, the activities of the
eucalyptus and the activity from the Tolu are to clarify or purify the
lung tissue itself. The activity of the Turpentine is to act upon
kidneys and liver for the assisting in tuning or toning the activity with
organs for better eliminations through the system, while the other ingredients
as they act upon the mucous membranes give better actions through the lymph
circulation in the body-forces.
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