Thieves Oil
Other names : Four Robbers oil , Four Thieves oil
The name Thieves® Oil comes from during the Bubonic Plague in Europe where certain folks would rob those who had died from the plague. However, the robbers never actually caught the disease themselves, since they used a blend of different spices and herbs to protect themselves.
I recently had a tooth pulled due to an abscess, I soon began to feel one coming in on the other side (yes I do brush my teeth), I let it get too far and of course it started to hurt. I had left my job so no longer had insurance to cover the removal so I dug in to an old remedy we have used around the house before, Four Thieves® Oil. My wife had herd about it years ago when she had a tooth ache and we made some of our own (it is kind of expensive, around $26 for a .5 mil bottle). I found a good recipe online from Mountain Rose Herbs and it was amazing. Now I know it seems odd to spend about $40 on oils to make one we can buy for $26 but you don’t use all of each oil and they are all used for other potions and brews too so it was much more cost effective.
Anyway, so I whipped up a new batch when I got the second abscess and after about 3 days of swishing the oils (mixed with water as it is highly concentrated) around in the mouth 3 times a day the abscess was gone and the tooth pain had all but gone.
My Four Thieves oil blend scaled up.
Here is my blend, or should I say Mountain Rose Herbs blend:
Ingredients
- 40 drops organic clove bud essential oil
- 35 drops organic lemon essential oil
- 20 drops fair trade organic cinnamon bark essential oil
- 15 drops organic eucalyptus essential oil
- 10 drops organic rosemary essential oil
Directions
- Mix all essential oils together in a dark glass bottle.
- This blend is very strong and must be diluted for safe use. The essential oil content should only account for 1 to 2% of the total formula. This means that when formulating homemade cleaning products or other creations, 6 to 12 drops of essential oil can be added per ounce of carrier oil or other menstruum.
