Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula officinalis
Common Names and Synonyms: Lavender Flowers
Background: Native to southern Europe, but grown widely elsewhere,
lavender has a long history as an aromatic and healing influence.
Medicinally, lavender is regarded as a relaxant, antispasmodic, circulatory
stimulant, and nerve tonic. Herbalists use lavender for exhaustion,
depression, digestive upsets, headache and arthritis pain. The fragrance
given off by the light purple-blue flowers can be used to promote
sleep.
Lavender in the Cayce Readings
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Edgar Cayce recommended lavender primarily as an aromatic for use in fume
baths and massage oil. Several readings address the holistic aspects
of lavender use by describing its role in attuning the physical, mental
and spiritual.
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Lavender was mentioned in 19 readings between 1921 and 1944.
Cayce Quotes on Lavender
4137-1
The development of brain, or mind, is good.
This body will be especially gifted if trained along musical lines, and
especially in connection with the spiritual through musical channels; with
the odor of lavender applied to the sense organs of this body, and the
shades of green in the development of the mind and the sensitive side of
this body.
3892-1
Also keeping the alimentary canal in order, with the conditions as
created by same, see? FOLLOWING these - just after such - with the
massage that would carry with same lavender, or oil of lavender, with the
manipulation - as is such that the stimulation of the lower hepatic circulation
is brought intact.
578-2
And lavender, odors that come from sandalwood have
a peculiar influence upon the body in the present; for these bespeak of
something innate within self that bespeaks of the abilities of the soul,
mind and body to revivify and rejuvenate itself as to an ideal.
688-2
Well that the entity have the stones or minerals
about self when in periods of meditation, or in those periods when it may
find itself the more easily attuned to the influences that may use the
body, either in the healing forces that flow through - through its attunements,
or through the visions and the associations of the entity; the chrysolite
or the amethyst. For the color purple should be close to
the body; and the perfumes or odors as of lavender have their influence
- not as in great quantity, but that which makes for attunements.
562-3
(Q) To what colors and musical notes do I vibrate?
(A) Lavender and gold; to these does the entity vibrate. As to
the music or notes, the harsher - yet the idyllistic or the outdoor notes
make for the greater influence in the experience.
1551-1
(You know, it would be very well for the body to
change the odors about the room from almond to lavender, and it would be
much better.)
2154-2
Also a lotion for the hands, arms or face, prepared
in this manner, will be good for this particular body:
To 2 ounces of Grain Alcohol, add - in the order
named:
Rose Water................4 ounces,
Oil of Lavender..........30 minims,
Pure Olive Oil........1 1/2 ounces.
2712-1
Keep about the body the colors of purple and lavender,
and all things bright; music that is of harmony - as of the Spring Song,
the Blue Danube and that character of music, with either the stringed instruments
or the organ. These are the vibrations that will set again near normalcy,
- yea, normalcy, mentally and physically, may be brought
to this body, if these influences will be consistently kept about this
body.
3375-1
As corrections are thus made in the upper cervicals,
extending even to the upper dorsal areas and those areas about the right
base of the brain, and to the left side of the frontal bone of the brain,
it will aid materially. These should not be given too often, but
there should be regular intervals of attending to these for several days
in succession. During such periods use not merely the corrective
measures for the structural portions, but do so with oils - that are partially
the anointing oils, the sacred oils - in this combination; adding these
in the order named:
Olive Oil......................2 ounces,
Tincture of Myrrh (heating
the Oil to add the Myrrh)......2 ounces.
Beat thoroughly, then add:
Calamus Oil....................2 minims,
Oil of Lavender....1, 2, 3, 4, 5 drops.
These if combined in their correct proportions will
aid in alleviating any strain in the muscle and tendon forces, and also
aid at the base of the brain, by assisting the nerves to be normal in their
reflexes - internally as well as externally - and thus gaining control
of the locomotory centers (and these will come first in upper portion of
body), and the reflexes to the auditory centers; as speech, hearing, vision.
For, all are partially hindered in the present - some more than others.
1567-4
While the applications formerly suggested here have
been only partially carried out, we would suggest that there be relaxations
through hydrotherapy. These should include Fume Baths with witchhazel
and Lavender; a teaspoonful of witchhazel and ten drops of Oil of Lavender
in the pint of water that would be boiling in the Cabinet so that
the fumes would settle over the body. This should be a part of the
Bath; that is, the fumes of these boiled in a croup cup or an open cup
in the dry Cabinet for the body.
2982-2
After these have been taken for at least ten days,
then have a good, thorough massage. First there should be given a
Fume Bath carrying witchhazel and Oil of Lavender. This should be
in the Cabinet when the dry heat or light is turned off. Begin with
the dry heat, or light, that will cause the beginning of moisture on the
body - not perspiration but moisture. Then turn off the light and
put a teaspoonful of witchhazel and ten drops of Oil of Lavender in the
pint of boiling water that would be placed in the Cabinet so that the fumes
would settle over the body.
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