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RE: It Smells: Aromatherapy Dosed by the Drop and Blended With Essential Oils for Specific Health Affects. (Part #1the Basics.)
Your article makes it clear how concentrating the oils of plants puts them into a different category -- from food or flavor into something much more potent! I like to drink tea from Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium) every now and then, but pennyroyal oil seems like something else entirely - much more serious.
Yes, when it's in its essential oil form it is very serious.
Essential oil of oregano is another good example of this. If 3 drops of oil of oregano are used under the tongue, right when a person starts to feel like they are coming down with a scratchy throat, it will kill the infection. It should only be taken for 3 days tops because it's too hard on the liver to take regularly. We also, very successfully I might add, use oil of oregano to treat toenail fungus. Essential oils are extremely potent and very active.
That's the same risk with the pennyroyal - liver damage. Powerful stuff - anything that can take out fungus is powerful, wow! Both the oregano and pennyroyal, then, are good examples of the gradation between food and medicine.