Aromatic Plants.
Within this part of the discussion about various nutrients to the plant can and will affect the outcome and quality of the plant's nutrient levels. I am going to just touch lightly on a few of the nutrients and really end up doing a sampling of sorts vs a long discussion.

With Nitrogen; Nitrogen will play a big role in the plants growth of what you see, above the ground. In previous discussions I have use Basil as an example of how a particular nutrient can alter the expression of components in a plant, in this case Basil. When Basil is exposed to a higher level than normal level of Nitrogen it then tends to produce an essential oil that is of the Menthyl Chavrol type. But at the lower levels of Nitrogen it tends t produce an essential oil that that is of the Linalool type. This is important in Aromatherapy applications as the two type of Basil essential oil will tend to produce different end results, overall. The PPM level of Nitrogen of 15 PPM will give he best...

We haven't done a whole lot in this area and sometimes it is fun to look at things in this light. There are over 18,000 plants that are known to produce essential oils or have theses oils in them. Only about 400 or so are known to be used for essential oil production to be used for therapeutic applications and for nutritional food flavorings. So with that lets look at several minerals and how they affect essential oil production n a few selected plants that are used for essential oil production. This same idea also applies to actual food production as well.

1st. Mineral; Cobalt. Cobalt is a very important micro-nutrient mineral. The ideal PPM in humans is best at 8 PPM.

With Rosemary; Rosemary was measured in some studies. With Cobalt being available at 10 PPM for plant uptake and at a soil pH of 8.49 gave the best Rosemary overall. This one aspect with the pH is why Rosemary does so well and why we select Rosemary from high alkaline soil conditions. In the other oils that will be...

I would like to discuss a little bit about this Brain Balancing Program that I am spear heading. For those that got a box through the Essential Oils Unleashed deal, you will have a description posted in the FB group as well as a sheet in your package, if I understand correctly. You can also get some information from Leiann's web site in the Blog section as I have an Introduction and several chapters posted there as well as I will post more in the future as it relates to Brain Support and Maintenance. These chapters will give you a considerable amount of back grounding on this subject. Please keep in mind that everything out there on the subject is not in these. I try to break down the information into usable material for and to what it means for us average people out on the street. I hope I am doing this. One of the challenges out there is that a lot of people out in the real world likes to present an "incomplete" picture so as to confuse you and then attempt themselves to be shown...

From Time to time we run across some interesting concepts in nutrition. One of these is one that you are going to hear a lot more about in the upcoming future. If there is anything that is going to fall into the class of new and exciting break through in human nutrition it will be this particular item. So what is that new and exciting thing? Alfalfa. The Latin name is Medicago sativa. It is known in old school circles as Lucerne. When i was a kid growing up on a farm it was always referred to as Lucerne. Then later on in time the name of Lucerne was transitioned out and replaced with the name of Alfalfa. i may be bias, but I do like the term Lucerne. 

At the present time the plant is being aggressively studied from several angles for human nutrition. The plant has been studied extensively for agricultural applications in animal nutrition. Alfalfa is a legume and as such is often referred to as the "Queen of Forages" I am not sure why it isn't called the "King of Forages"....

Hi Everyone,
Today we are going to discuss some heavy stuff. So I want to make it simple, but just keep in mind that you need to focus a little bit so that you don't have to go over it a number of times. But then again going over something a number of times isn't really all that bad.

The motivation for this discussion is because I have to make a very critical decision concerning an essential oil and it's placement in my Brain Balancing Program. In this case it has to fit in the Nitrogen slot in the level 3 polarity matrix. Keep in mind that Nitrogen is a very critical element in all aspects of life. In our bodies, Nitrogen accounts for about 3.5% of our body weight. So for me I am packing around a little over 8 pounds of Nitrogen. That is weight I really am not too sure that I want to loose a lot of. A little bit, maybe, but not much. lol. But beyond that, the air we breathe, we always say, I need Oxygen, I need Oxygen.... well the air we breathe is only about 20% Oxygen. We should...

In our discussions about our Brain and the nutrients found there and required for proper brain function, we have to really discuss more than one at a time as many times one nutrient is dependent on another nutrient to properly function. However, we do start out that way at times, but then by the time we get most of the way through, we end up introducing several more. This is because of that spider web type of connection that is found that gives us the picture of so many dependencies of one nutrient being connected with another to properly function. So with that our discussion today is going be centered around Iodine and Selenium.

The minerals of Iodine and Selenium play a major role in both parts of the immune system. The big difference in the two parts of the immune system is that in the 80% part, which is found in our digestive tract is made of of many and that word many is an understatement, of various microbes and bacteria. I have heard figures of trillions being batted around....

Today we are going to discuss Vitamin D.
I don't know if you can find very many people out there in the real world that does not know that Vitamin D is an extremely important nutrient that we desperately need. They know that we see it as being added to many foods. Usually it is added to milk, Cereals and such. We see advertisements that promote the use of Foods such as Cod Liver Oil as good source for natural Vitamin D. Among certain diet preferences we see references to the use of certain types of Mushrooms as containing a good source for their dietary preferences. But the most popular source of supplementation for Vitamin D is over the counter self medicating products in a pill or liquid form. For people with remarkable deficiencies of Vitamin D that require a visit to a Health Care Professional, many times we see them prescribing a Vitamin D form of medicine to treat acute cases of Vitamin D Deficiencies among their clients. In fact in the US, the prescriptions for Vitamin D...