The human immune system is struggling today to cope with an onslaught of viral infections.  New viral strains are appearing all over the globe.  Since Western medicine has very few successful anti-viral agents, most viral infections are private battles fought between the virus and the immune system.  The time has come to let the world know about the effectiveness of essential oils in fighting viruses.
 
At my College of Essential Oil Therapy in Santa Cruz, we examine both scientifically and energetically how oils, herbs, and nutrition create holistic health.  Let us look at essential oils as anti-viral agents, but from another perspective, their ability to create harmony within our body/mind/spirit systems, which diminishes the infectious power of viruses.
 
Like the 'terrain' of a plant, there is a 'terrain' of our unique personal situation.  Viruses can obtain a stronghold in the body when the physical and emotional terrain is out of balance.  The science of psychoneuroimmunology, which was pioneered by Candace Pert in Molecules of Emotion, first states that there is no distinction between our mind and body because they are interconnected, and that the flow of peptides, or chains of amino acids, in our bodies that bind to cell receptor sites and create an intelligent network between the central nervous system, the endocrine system, and the immune system to form the Mobile Brain.  Pert found in her research that emotions, if repressed, could block the free flow of peptides which can cause diseases from viral infections to cancer.  It is important to be in touch with all emotions, not just peace and joy, but anger and fear, emotions we don't want to inflict onto other people but need to acknowledge to ourselves.