To us, essential oils are the stars in the sky that light our way, through our nights and days, in seen and unseen ways. In combinations, they are constellations: strings of stars, from here to there, from arrest, to digest, from rest to medicine-chest, weaving boundless beauty into a matrix of balance and blessings. These essences are one of the sweetest syrups that pour forth from our Libation Lands. Playing with this plant-kin since Nadine was fourteen; everyday she has had new adventures with these plant gems. Essential oil molecules, vast intricate strands of plant-telegrams, are botanical secondary-metabolites, mirror molecules of our human hormones, enzymes, and neuro-transmitters, which “allow” the plant to have an effect on us. Essential oils improve metabolic, emotional and mind processes in our organism. They attune our senses to communing with the world-cosmos-earth. Intelligent-inquiry is showing that essential oils are vastly therapeutic, with optimal molecular activity – to communicate – to our cells. And in combination (in blends, in elixirs, in chrisms), essential oils, complex mixtures of plant-purity create a synergistic-guild of melodious-mixtures that engage with our cellular membranes in a most remarkable way to restore glandular balance and alignment.
Culinary Chrisms – Special Blends that can anointed and eaten! Celebrating the powerful effect essential oils have with our cells and endocrine system - our life affirming essences spark a multitude of measureable physiological and psychological responses. What is a Chrism? Chrism is an ancient word for consecrated oil used to anoint in baptism and other special sacraments. We like to think of our Culinary Chrisms as ecclesiastical medicinals, bringing forth the sacred into the secular; a celebration of the elationship between plants and people.