sponsored by the Aesthetic Medicine club
one year old at NCNM, Aimee Bonneval is new president
tonight's speakers from doTERRA
water with lemon and fennel EO: yummy
their cough drops: spicey and good
sharing wild orange and recommending putting drops in palms and rubbing together

RESOURCES
BOOK: Modern Essentials
www.myoilbuisness.com
www.aromatools.com
www.builddoterra.com
www.everthingessential.me
doTERRAPDX (facebook page)
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Newly Emerging and Resistant Infections--Can Plan Antimicrobials and Probiotics Help?
greatest threat to human health: acquisition of resistance by micro-organisms
now there's a strain of Neisseria gonorrhea which is resistance to all antibiotics

less than 100 years ago we didn't have abx
average RX of Abx in US: 1/person/year
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Just strained out the herb and bottled the tincture: Melissa (lemon balm) in lemon vodka. When are we having screwdrivers?
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Way back in 1973 the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act was passed, requiring that the ingredients in products be listed so we'd know what we're buying. Fragrances were specifically exempted from the law, because perfume makers would never let anyone know what was in their scents. Since then, under market pressures, companies have begun to use this loophole to put all manner of toxic materials into products. Any scented personal care product you purchase may contain hormonally active substances that could damage a developing fetus or reduce your fertility, trigger allergies, or be toxic in undiscovered ways. Many of these chemicals have not been tested at all. So use "fragrance" at your own risk, and please don't go perfuming yourself around pregnant women. Unless...you use pure essential oils from beneficial plants.
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Karen Parker on EOs and AromaTherapy
she has spent 35 years studying herbal medicine
was cosmetologist, did color-->chemical sensitivity and asthma worsened
now studying Chinese medicine at NCNM
went into EO industry
currently Oregon rep for Simplers http://www.simplers.com/
can't tolerate all EOs
teaches advanced classes outside NCNM
offering class in Nov or Dec at Watershed clinic
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