Strengthen Immune System with Essential Oils & Chinese Medicine

By Pacific College - April 7, 2020
Boost Immune System with Essential Oils - Peter Holmes

Learn how professional medical herbalist, Peter Holmes, LAc, MH, advises to strengthen your immune system with essential oils and Chinese medicine.

Did you know that Palmarosa oil, which goes to the spleen channel, is both a prebiotic and antimicrobial for sanitizing and optimizing the intestinal microflora? There are many powerful essential oils that support and boost immune system functions – but how do you know which ones to select?

Utilizing Essential Oils for Optimal Immune Functioning

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  • Explore the difference between stimulating immune functions and boosting immune potential in Chinese medicine with essential oils
  • Analyze factors that weaken immune functions like emotional distress, intestinal dysbiosis and hormonal imbalances, and how essential oils in Chinese medicine can address those
  • Examine the role of neuro-endocrine (jing) and digestive (spleen) systems in immunity and how to support them.
  • Discover applications/delivery of essential oils to optimize effectiveness

Watch the webinar by clicking on the “play” button below, or on our YouTube channel .Ìý

Peter Holmes, LAc, MH

Peter Holmes is an internationally renowned English-trained medical herbalist, essential oil therapist and practitioner of Chinese medicine with over 35 years’ experience of using herbal and essential oil medicines in clinical practice. His extensive training included studies with Oriental Medicine greats Ted Kaptchuk and Giovanni Maciocia; medical herbalist and pharmacist Henri Verdier in Paris, France; medical herbalist Christopher Hedley in London, England; and Chinese medicine sinologist Elisabeth Roche-Vallee in Paris, France.

Peter brings to his courses and seminars over 35 years of study, clinical practice and teaching experience with Western herbs, Chinese herbs and essential oils. He has explored and developed both the physiological and psychological aspects of using essential oils in treatment. He has specifically pioneered their clinical use with acupuncture and bodywork since 1982 and in 2011 co-founded Aroma Acupoint Therapy. Peter is the author of several acclaimed textbooks on herbal and essential oil medicine: Aromatica Vols. 1 & 2, Clinical Aromatherapy, The Energetics of Western Herbs Vols. 1 & 2, Jade Remedies Vols. 1 & 2, and The TCM Materia Medica Clinical Reference & Study Guide. Peter is well-known for both for the high quality of his Snow Lotus Essential Oils which are used by practitioners throughout the world and for the breadth and depth of his expertise on the subject.

You can meet Peter in person later this year at Pacific Symposium in San Diego.
https://www.snowlotus.org/

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