All-Natural Pain Relief

 Today's post is another personal one.  Have you ever slept wrong and woke up with pain in your back or shoulders?  Or maybe you've gotten a muscle spasm for one reason or another...  In the past few months, I've had two muscle spasms in my upper back that eventually moved under my shoulder blade.  Both times, it was very painful and the pain lasted a week or longer, which made it really hard to sleep.

I'd tried using ibuprofen, but that didn't really help much at all.Which brings us to today's post.  Last Wednesday, I woke up with incredible pain near my right shoulder blade.  Seeing as though I'd recently read about lemongrass and marjoram as pain relievers, I applied a few drops of both of those neat. They worked for a little while, but didn't provide complete pain relief...and the pain was even worse on Wednesday night.

Thursday morning, I remembered that I'd mixed up a muscle spasm blend and driver blend for my husband.  I quickly grabbed the two blends and my essential oil stick. I inserted the spasm blend roller bottle and, using a bit of pressure, rolled it generously onto the sore area.  I rubbed it in a bit with my hand, then did the same thing with the driver blend. Over the top of both, I used my roller bottle of Relief both on my shoulder blade and the base of my spine.

I did this again Thursday night, and twice on Friday.  By Saturday morning, the pain was completely GONE!   Hallelujah!

I even used this same protocol on my 9-year-old son's ankle after he turned it.  It had been hurting him to walk for the past couple days, but when he got up this morning, he said the pain was completely gone.  :)

These are the blend recipes that I used.  These are not my personal recipes, but some that I've come across since I've been using essential oils.

Muscle Spasm Blend
40 drops basil
30 drops lemongrass
30 drops marjoram
Top off roller bottle with fractionated coconut oil (FCO).

Driver Blend/DIY AromaTouch* (drives the other oil/blend deeper into your muscles)
34 drops cypress
34 drops lavender
34 drops marjoram
10 drops frankincense
Top off roller bottle with FCO.

*The DIY AromaTouch portion is equal parts Cypress, Lavender, and Marjoram. This particular recipe called for 100 drops of AromaTouch along with the other ingredients.

Do you have any pain relief blends that you like to use?  Have you ever tried a similar one?   I'd love to hear what you've used and what you think of this one.


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