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Posted by Victoria Anisman-Reiner Jan 22, 2008 |
I was walking my dog in early November, slipped and took a tumble face-first onto pavement, badly bruising both knees. They were healing, slowly but surely, until the beginning of January when they started to feel painful once again...
- I'm not the best at giving my body time to heal: I have a steep set of stairs in my apartment that I climb several times a day and, at the beginning of January and then again last week, I went skiing - something my knees didn't exactly thank me for!
- Then there's the emotional piece which, for me, is that my knees seem to act up when I push myself to pursue personal situations that don't feel right. Unfortunately, that does fit the bill for something that's been happening in the past few months.
But the point of this post - of course - is that after a few days of pain, I wised up and started applying oils to my knees more frequently, four or five times a day. I used a couple of blends ("Valor" and "Relieve It"), but the oils I was applying most often were single oils: my old favourite, Peppermint, and one I don't use often at all, Pine.
Peppermint is great for pain relief. It is soothing and cooling, helps take down inflammation and relieves stress on sore muscles and joints.
Pine is fabulous for rebuilding torn muscles and ligaments and is also great for pain relief.
Today, after applying these oils for most of the past week (and tapering off in the last day or so), my knees feel almost 100%, and I'm not noticing any pain climbing stairs.
For the 1,674,389th time, I'm very grateful to have these essential oils in my life!