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I have to get this off my chest. A family member by marriage is a true believer in. and a pusher with a certain MLM scheme that sells EOs. Several months ago, her husband was diagnosed with a small spot of squamous cell carcinoma on his chest. The doctor recommended swift removal and had he done so, that would have been the end of it. Enter the wife. She mixed together a witch's brew of Brand X EOs and applied it directly to the cancer. Doctors are stupid, they don't know everything, but Brand X's EOs will cure the cancer. Wife applies her concoction twice a day for several weeks. It ate through his skin and he got a massive infection. Wife insists her concoction was "drawing out the cancer."
Husband finally had enough and went to see the surgeon to have it taken care of. On top of the infection, the cancer had spread over most of his chest, over his shoulder and down his back. On top of all that, the cancer ate through his collar bone, and it is untreatable. One major surgery and some skin grafts later, he gets another infection. Why? He allowed wife to "treat" him again with her EO concoction as recommended by the witch doctors at Brand X. She packed her "salve" into his open wounds and STILL insists it is "drawing out the cancer." He did take the prescribed antibiotics. Shortly afterward, he was diagnosed as terminal, and decided to the "natural" road of treatment. Take a wild guess what that meant.
Two weeks ago this man was taken to the hospital in a nearly insensate condition and in extreme pain with open draining wounds on his upper body. The tumors have gone wild. Mets all over the place, and, you guessed it, an infection featuring not one, but two bacteria, one of which is antibiotic resistant to pretty much everything. Wife is still pouring her EO concoction on him while he's dying in a hospital bed, and still believes the drainage means she is "drawing out the cancer." He's probably down to days left to live now, and not many. The tumors are so large now that they're breaking through his skin. If this man wasn't a consenting adult, his wife would be facing criminal charges. Imagine if this was a minor child. The hospital would have to report the treatment as abuse.
People, for the love of God, don't blindly believe what a multi-level-marketing company says about its products. Much as I despise government regulation, I'm beginning to wonder if EOs and the word "natural" need some government regulation. Horrible as this is, I can only pray it's an extreme case and not indicative of what is happening in the expanding world of self-described aromatherapists. Doctors (and licensed aromatherapists) really do know more than an MLM representative, and they actually do have your health and your best interests at heart. End of rant.
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Jennifer
Doing my best to blow up my kitchen. In style!
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