Essential Oils vs. Fixed Oils
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
People commonly confuse the term essential oil with infused oils, not realizing they are in fact two different types of extraction. We also have the term herbal oils or aromatic oils, which also contributes to the confusion, as these terms have all been used interchangeable and applied to both essential oils and infused oils.
In the modern era of the essential oil craze, many forget to traditional usage of herbs infused into carrier oils to convey their medicinal properties. These forms of extract are easy to prepare at home without the necessity for distillation equipment, and are generally more sustainable in terms of the amount of plant material needed.
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| 0:00.0 | The Plant Path, Your Window into the World of Urban Medicine, with Sajapapam, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism and Organic Unay. |
| 0:26.6 | Hey there, everybody. Sagea Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism and Organic Unique. Hey there everybody, Sagea Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. And today I want to talk with you about the difference between essential oils and infused oils. |
| 0:32.6 | You know, in modern day herbalism, essential oils are becoming increasingly more and more popular. |
| 0:39.3 | We're seeing a lot of really big companies out there, mass manufacturing, all these essential oils, |
| 0:45.3 | and a lot of them are being promoted a lot for topical usage, but also for internal usage. |
| 0:51.3 | And one thing that we're seeing with the increasing popularity of the essential |
| 0:55.6 | oil industry is an overlooking of kind of the more traditional way of preparing herbs with oil. |
| 1:03.4 | And that's through infused oils. So really the main difference that we see between an essential |
| 1:09.5 | oil and an infused oil is that an essential |
| 1:13.0 | oil is prepared through distilling the fresh plant material to just extract the volatile portions |
| 1:20.7 | of the plant. And typically, you know, most plants that contain essential oils have very small |
| 1:27.3 | amounts of them. |
| 1:28.3 | So you can be distilling 10, 20, 50 pounds of plant material and get, you know, maybe an ounce or two, depending on the plant, of those essential oils. |
| 1:38.3 | Very small yield. |
| 1:40.3 | And really from the alchemical perspective, these essential oils of plants are what we call the sulfur of the plant or the soul of the plant. |
| 1:48.9 | And this is one of the three core philosophical principles that we see in plants, the sulfur, the mercury, and the salt. |
| 1:56.9 | So really from the alchemical understanding of a plant, the essential oil is really considered one third of the medicinal property of the plant. |
| 2:07.6 | And the thing about the essential oils of a plant is that really for most of us home herbalists, we can't really prepare those ourselves. |
| 2:15.6 | They require more involved distill you know, distillation |
| 2:19.3 | equipment and it's a little bit more complicated to prepare your own home essential oils. But the infused |
| 2:26.4 | oils are much more readily accessible for all herbalists to prepare. And the main difference |
| 2:33.1 | between an essential oil and infused oil is that |
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