February 19, 2025 • 19 mins
Learn the therapeutic benefits of black pepper oil from a NAHA Professional Certified Aromatherapist - Wendy Selvig. It's a circulation oil, a respiratory oil, a digestive oil, it can help with fat loss and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, hey, everybody, Welcome back to the Oily Academy podcast.
I'm Wendy Selvig, your host, and I am so glad
you're here. If you're new to the show, I've been
doing this show for many years and I'm a Level
two NAHA professional certified aroma therapist. I'm also I've been
a natural health oriented researcher for a nonprofit organization for
(00:26):
twenty years. I love natural health, anything natural man, I
am on it, and I love to help people find
natural ways to support their health. So I also now
run what's called the Aroma Science Academy. This is an
online school where you can become a certified aroma therapist.
(00:47):
So you can check that out if you're interested at
the Aromascience Academy dot com. Now, first of all, I'm
not a doctor. The information shared in this podcast is
for educational and informational purposes only. The statements made about
essential oil have not been evaluated by the FDA, and
these products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or
prevent any disease. Always consult with qualified healthcare professional before
(01:09):
making any changes to your health routine. That's my mandatory disclaimer.
I know you understand why I have to say that.
Now today's episode is hot. Okay, literally it's hot. We're
diving into the spicy, warming and oh so amazing black
pepper essential oil. We're going to talk about its benefits,
(01:32):
how it's made, some fun historical facts, and even a
little pronunciation lesson. So sit back, grab a cup of tea,
and let's get started the benefits of black pepper essential oil. So,
black pepper oil is not just for seasoning your food.
It's a powerhouse essential oil with amazing therapeutic benefits. Now
(01:55):
when you heard me just say season your food, did
you even know you could do that? Yeah? I do
have to tell you. As a Roman therapist, I have
to say you must be very very careful about which
essential oils you use for internal consumption. If it is
not labeled for any kind of for internal use, do
(02:17):
not use it. And it is it's I mean, I'm
just telling you for safety reasons, you are better off
to not use essential oils. Just grab a thing of
pepper and put it on your steak, Like, don't use
black pepper essential oil if you don't know a couple
of things. One that your essential oils were distilled in
surgical stainless steel. That is to me the most important thing,
(02:38):
because most essential oils on the market come from like
the same handful of distilleries around the world, and most
of those are perfume industry, not health industry. So the
perfume guys, they've had these vats and distilleries for like
one hundred years, and their vats are made out of
metals like aluminum is the one that worries me the
(03:00):
most that leach into the oils. And so when you're
just making a perfume or you're you're not worried about health,
you're just making something smell good, that's not a problem.
But if you are now thinking, I'm going to take
this oil and I'm going to put it on my
skin because I want to support, you know, health on
my skin, right the healthy response of my skin or
(03:22):
whatever wrinkles, or I want to help reduce the appearance
of wrinkles, whatever it is you're going to use it for.
And you put any oil that has aluminum on it,
you're going to feed if there's cancer or anything like that,
you're feeding that monster. Like you are better off to
not use sent oils. So make sure your essential oils
(03:44):
are distilled in surgical stainless steel. That's the number one thing. Secondly,
they cannot put any kind of chemical thinners or chemical
additives to the oils. In the perfume industry, that's standard, right.
That's how they can make a ten dollars bottle of
frankincense because they've finned it out enough. It's kind of
like when you get an announce of gold. Right, Let's
(04:05):
say it's twenty seven hundred dollars for an announce of gold,
and someone says, well, I've got an ounce of gold
for sale for one thousand dollars. You know they are
losing money if they really give you an ounce of
gold for that much money. So they're giving you a
thousand dollars worth of gold and they've thinned it out
with something else. Right, It's the same thing if someone
gives you a ten dollars bottle of frankensnse. They're giving
(04:26):
you ten dollars worth of frank concents or less, and
they've thinned it out with something else. That's just how
it works. So the oils, when they have thinners in them,
those thinners are chemicals. They're toxic, they're not good for
your body and a story. Okay, So those who know
me know I love Young Living. There's a couple other
(04:46):
brands out there who are acceptable that I like, but
when actually, when it comes to internal use, the only
one I can recommend is Young Living because as far
as I know, they are the only company out there
that actually has oils for internal use. So they have
a vitality line and they have a vitality black pepper,
So you can be safe knowing that that can go
(05:09):
on your food. You could use that for dressings or
for any kind of cooking. You know that black pepper
oil is going to be perfectly safe for that. But
there is so much more to do with black pepper
than just take it internally or just use it, you know,
on your food. First of all, on this podcast, I
am not selling anything. I'm not selling any essential oils. Yes,
I just recommended Young Living, But you can go out
(05:31):
there anywhere and find anybody, find a friend or somebody
who's selling it. Right. So I'm telling you this because
I want to make a legal cut here. I want
to tell you about the benefits of black pepper as
an aroma therapist, not as a Young Living salesperson. Okay,
So as an aroma therapist, I'm just telling you there
(05:53):
is pain relief and anti inflammatory properties in black pepper,
and this words your body, so your body does the healing.
Your body heals itself. This is just natural properties that
can support your body in its own efforts to reduce
its own inflammation and to bring relief if it's under
(06:14):
stress and pain. Okay, black pepper contains a compound. Let's
see if I can say it. It's got this funny
little symbol like b careraphyline. That's the name of it.
This compound. It helps reduce pain and inflammation in the
body by helping the body to do that for itself.
And if you have you know, if you have sore
(06:35):
muscles or discomfort in your joints, adding black pepper to
some massage oil or to a even a coconut oil
or something, you know, a carrier oil of sometime and
rubbing that in can be very soothing because it's bringing
the blood to that area. It's a highly circulatory oil,
(06:55):
so it's wherever you put black pepper, it's going to
bring blood to the surface. And so when blood comes,
then blood brings your nutrients. Blood brings your own bodies
inflammatory support, It brings all the things that the blood does.
The life is in the blood, right, it's going to
help your body heal itself, relieve the pain, relieve the
things your body's going to do it and that black
(07:17):
pepper is going to support and help your body to
do that. So that is one of the really wonderful
things about black pepper. And if you like to make
your own blends, you know, you can get little rollerball
bottles just on Amazon. Type in ten mL middle eater
that's the size. I like, ten mL roller ball bottle.
And you can even put four essential oils and all
(07:39):
bunch of different bottles will come up, different colors, pretty bottles,
you know, you can just search through there. But you
can get yourself a couple of those glass bottles and
then put some coconut oil, liquid coconut oil, not the
hard white kind, but you can get a liquid coconut oil.
You could use avocado oil, you could use sweet almond oil.
(08:00):
A lot of different nice carrier oils that you can use. Actually,
I have an article about carrier oils and all the
different ones at the Aromascience Academy dot com. It's under
free information. There's a whole page on carrier oils there
that you can go look at the different ones. But anyway,
you basically make your own rollerball bottle. So if sore
(08:22):
joints are something you deal with, there are sore muscles,
you know, you can make a blend and make sure
that black pepper is in there. Okay. Another thing that
black pepper does is digestive support, so you know, if
you feel bloated or sluggish, it stimulates digestive enzymes. So again,
you're gonna only want the kind that has labeled for ingestion,
(08:44):
but you could put some in a capsule and take it.
I think it'd be a little too spicy to just
put under your tongue, so I would recommend a capsule
because I wouldn't want this taste in my mouth. Particularly,
I'd put a couple drops with carrier oil. Okay. So
again you're gonna have your handy dandy liquid coconut oil
and you're gonna put like three to four to five
drops of black pepper in that capsule. So you can
(09:07):
get veggie capsules at any place, Whole Foods, online, Amazon, wherever,
and then you're gonna put you know, three to five
drops of black pepper oil in there, and then you're
going to fill that capsule with the coconut oil, put
them together and then take it. It helps all the
digestive discomforts. That is a really great way to use it.
You could also if you wanted to just go topically,
(09:29):
you could just kind of massage it into your abdomen.
That would be another great way to use it. It's also
known to be good for respiratory health. Black pepper helps
your respiratory system. If you're feeling congested, black pepper acts
as an expectorant. It helps with the phlegm, It helps
the mucus, It helps clear all of that and supports
(09:51):
easier breathing. So you know, you could also try to
diffuse it. Kind of a nice little blend is black
pepper and eucalyptus together and that makes a really powerful
respiratory blend. So if you're struggling with the phlem and
all the things, you have your diffuser going by your desk.
You breathe that all day while you're working. Eucalyptus and
(10:12):
black pepper is a really good way to help support
your body. There's three or four different kinds of eucalyptuses
out there that are really beneficial. My favorite is one
called Eucalyptus globulus. You could get the other there's Eucalyptus radiata,
but my favorite is Eucalyptus globulus. And the reason why
it's my favorite is because I grew up as a
kid with my mom slapping vics on my feet every
(10:33):
time I was sick or my chest. Now, I do
not support putting petroleum products on your body anymore, and
as a kid, that's all we had and nobody knew better, right,
But the very same smell that is in vics, they
use Eucalyptus globulus. So it's reminiscent to me of childhood
sickness and like it's the comfort of mom slapping that
(10:55):
on my chest. And so I love that smell my
body like react like, oh I love it. I'm feeling
better already. You know there's a little emotional I'm sure
component to that. So you could put some black pepper
and eucalyptus together for a great blend. Okay, circulatory, So
wherever you put black pepper oil, it brings the blood
(11:16):
to the surface. So if you have cold hands and feet.
This is something you can do. Black pepper increases circulation,
so it helps warm the body. You could put some
of this rollerball blend. If you do black pepper with
coconut oil. You could rub that on the bottoms of
your feet at night and put socks on before you
(11:36):
go to bed. If you don't want to smell the
black pepper, but it will help your feet to warm up. Also,
you can use this in weight loss attempts. I use
this and I was blown away by the success. There
was a challenge that I entered of like trying to
lose weight. And one of the things that you did
was you got some massage oil and you added a
(11:59):
bottom of black pepper to this bottle of massage oil,
and then you would massage that on stubborn areas that
you couldn't like get the weight off. You know. It's
like you sometimes you can go on a diet and
you can lose like ten pounds, and but you got
this place, you know, like right on the side of
your hip or or your belly or someplace that It's like, man,
even if you were like stick skinny, you think you're
(12:21):
still gonna have fat in that one place it just
doesn't want to come off. Well, the reason is because
the blood is not flowing up into that area and
cleansing those cells and letting getting the waste out, pulling
the fat out and that kind of a thing. It's
like it probably is sealed off in a sense with biofilm,
and there's there's reasons why that would be. But black pepper,
(12:43):
if you apply it topically to that area, it goes
into those cells and it pulls the blood up to
that area. So the blood is what does it. The
blood is what cleanses. The blood comes in and pull
some waste out and processes that out of your body. Right,
So the black pepper is going to bring blood to
that area and help you attack that area. I did
(13:04):
have great success, Like in two weeks. All I did
was that massage oil and the black pepper, and I
was amazed. I think I lost four inches in two weeks,
like around my waist. I was like, oh my gosh.
I didn't expect the results to be that good. And
the oil was it. It was a massage oil from
(13:24):
Young Living. It was gosh. Oh it was the one
called cell you Light Cell Light. I added the black
pepper into it, so I poured, I opened up the bottle,
poured a little bit out enough that I could put
a whole bottles five MILLI later bottle black pepper into
that and then seal it up, shake it up, and
then that's what I used every day. I probably applied
(13:45):
it three times a day for two weeks to see
that those inches come off. So anyway, that's one another
way you can use black pepper. Now, black peppers, there's
two more ways that you can use it, and I'm
going to tell you about this. One is you can
use it for mental clarity and emotional support. So the warm,
spicy aroma of black pepper, it's stimulating, it's grounding. It
(14:08):
may not come across as something you're like, oh it
makes you feel good about yourself or anything, but it
is stimulating and grounding. When you smell that, it goes
up through your olfactory nerve, crosses the blood brain barrier,
gets into your brain, and it goes to the amygdala.
It doesn't have to smell like cookies to have emotional support.
You can get emotional support from strange smells that are
(14:31):
I would just say strange. You're gonna recognize black pepper.
But I'm just saying. It's not like, oh, it's not
like vanilla and chocolate. It's like, no, this is like
black pepper. But it is stimulating. It stimulates, it brings blood.
It'll bring blood to your brain. It's got a real
grounding smell to it, and so it helps with focus,
like mental focus. So if you're needing to focus on something,
(14:53):
maybe at work, you're having a hard time focusing, get
your black pepper. Put it in your diffuser, or put
some in this roller ball blend and like put it
under your nose and get yourself smelling it. It helps
you with focus. It also helps reduce stress and anxiety. Now,
for the young living people who do who love the
Ninja Nitros, they're like little drinks. They're similar to energy drink,
(15:17):
but it's not for energy. It's for mental focus. And
the key factor in that drink is the black pepper oil.
And that's why you get such like you get a
couple hours of focus. And I totally do, Like, if
I'm going to go speak publicly, I will drink one
of those knowing that I'm like, I hone in for
a couple hours and I can really focus. And the
(15:38):
last thing is it helps you to reduce craving, so
it can help like with nicotine cravings. So if you
are trying to stop smoking, black pepper oil has actually
been studied for reducing nicotine craving. So you make your
little rollerball bottle, get you know that little glass rollerball
bottle off of Amazon, a liter bottle. You're gonna put
(16:02):
like five to ten drops of black pepper or central
oil in there, and then you're gonna fill it up
maybe two thirds of the way with coconut oil. You
can make it stronger if you want to. You have
to kind of determine your own strength that you want
it for. But daily as you're trying to overcome cravings,
you would smell that black pepper oil, all right. So
those are all the therapeutic benefits. Isn't that great? Now?
(16:24):
I could go on and on about black pepper oil
really quickly. I won't spend a lot of time on it,
but I'll tell you a little bit about where black
pepper grows. It's a flowering vine in the piper Asia family,
but it grows best in tropical climates with warm, humid conditions.
Grows best in loamy, well drained soil, and in partially
(16:45):
shaded areas. The biggest black pepper producers in the world
are in India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Brazil.
It's got to have this tropical climate to grow in.
But these vines can grow up to twenty feet long,
and the plant produces small white flowers which turn into
little green berries. Then as they mature they turn red
(17:06):
and when they're dried they become black peppercorns that we
all know and love and grind and put on our foods. Right,
So the pronunciation is piper nigrum in like an nye,
you know, nigrum, And this is the Latin for black pepper,
so you can impress all your friends, you know some
Latin I do have. Also just a tiny little bit
(17:28):
of cool history. So black pepper was once considered as
valuable as gold, like the ancient Romans used it as
a currency. And in four ten AD, when the Visigoths,
led by Alaric a la Aric besieged Rome, they demanded
a ransom that included three thousand pounds of black pepper.
(17:50):
And so yeah, that's a hot commodity, literally hot. I'm
trying some dry humor eres you know, probably not working
for me. So anyway, the search for direct trade routes
to India for black pepper was a key reason beyond
behind the age of the exploration. So yeah, spices like
black pepper literally changed the course of history. So really,
(18:13):
black pepper essential oil. Here's just a summary of how
you can use it. You can diffuse it for a
warming grounding aroma. You can add some carrier oil to
it and massage it into sore muscles for some pain
support and relief. You can blend it with citrus oils
like orange or lemon for like a really energizing and
spicy scent. And you can inhale it when you have
(18:37):
the need for mental clarity and focus. I hope you've
enjoyed this spicy deep dive into black pepper essential oil.
If you want to keep learning, don't forget to visit
the Aromascience Academy dot com to check out my aromatherapy courses.
And if you love this episode, you please subscribe if
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(18:57):
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your fellow oil living friends. Until next time, keep it
oily and keep it spicy.
Hey, hey, everybody, Welcome back to the Oily Academy podcast.
I'm Wendy Selvig, your host, and I am so glad
you're here. If you're new to the show, I've been
doing this show for many years and I'm a Level
two NAHA professional certified aroma therapist. I'm also I've been
a natural health oriented researcher for a nonprofit organization for
(00:26):
twenty years. I love natural health, anything natural man, I
am on it, and I love to help people find
natural ways to support their health. So I also now
run what's called the Aroma Science Academy. This is an
online school where you can become a certified aroma therapist.
(00:47):
So you can check that out if you're interested at
the Aromascience Academy dot com. Now, first of all, I'm
not a doctor. The information shared in this podcast is
for educational and informational purposes only. The statements made about
essential oil have not been evaluated by the FDA, and
these products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or
prevent any disease. Always consult with qualified healthcare professional before
(01:09):
making any changes to your health routine. That's my mandatory disclaimer.
I know you understand why I have to say that.
Now today's episode is hot. Okay, literally it's hot. We're
diving into the spicy, warming and oh so amazing black
pepper essential oil. We're going to talk about its benefits,
(01:32):
how it's made, some fun historical facts, and even a
little pronunciation lesson. So sit back, grab a cup of tea,
and let's get started the benefits of black pepper essential oil. So,
black pepper oil is not just for seasoning your food.
It's a powerhouse essential oil with amazing therapeutic benefits. Now
(01:55):
when you heard me just say season your food, did
you even know you could do that? Yeah? I do
have to tell you. As a Roman therapist, I have
to say you must be very very careful about which
essential oils you use for internal consumption. If it is
not labeled for any kind of for internal use, do
(02:17):
not use it. And it is it's I mean, I'm
just telling you for safety reasons, you are better off
to not use essential oils. Just grab a thing of
pepper and put it on your steak, Like, don't use
black pepper essential oil if you don't know a couple
of things. One that your essential oils were distilled in
surgical stainless steel. That is to me the most important thing,
(02:38):
because most essential oils on the market come from like
the same handful of distilleries around the world, and most
of those are perfume industry, not health industry. So the
perfume guys, they've had these vats and distilleries for like
one hundred years, and their vats are made out of
metals like aluminum is the one that worries me the
(03:00):
most that leach into the oils. And so when you're
just making a perfume or you're you're not worried about health,
you're just making something smell good, that's not a problem.
But if you are now thinking, I'm going to take
this oil and I'm going to put it on my
skin because I want to support, you know, health on
my skin, right the healthy response of my skin or
(03:22):
whatever wrinkles, or I want to help reduce the appearance
of wrinkles, whatever it is you're going to use it for.
And you put any oil that has aluminum on it,
you're going to feed if there's cancer or anything like that,
you're feeding that monster. Like you are better off to
not use sent oils. So make sure your essential oils
(03:44):
are distilled in surgical stainless steel. That's the number one thing. Secondly,
they cannot put any kind of chemical thinners or chemical
additives to the oils. In the perfume industry, that's standard, right.
That's how they can make a ten dollars bottle of
frankincense because they've finned it out enough. It's kind of
like when you get an announce of gold. Right, Let's
(04:05):
say it's twenty seven hundred dollars for an announce of gold,
and someone says, well, I've got an ounce of gold
for sale for one thousand dollars. You know they are
losing money if they really give you an ounce of
gold for that much money. So they're giving you a
thousand dollars worth of gold and they've thinned it out
with something else. Right, It's the same thing if someone
gives you a ten dollars bottle of frankensnse. They're giving
(04:26):
you ten dollars worth of frank concents or less, and
they've thinned it out with something else. That's just how
it works. So the oils, when they have thinners in them,
those thinners are chemicals. They're toxic, they're not good for
your body and a story. Okay, So those who know
me know I love Young Living. There's a couple other
(04:46):
brands out there who are acceptable that I like, but
when actually, when it comes to internal use, the only
one I can recommend is Young Living because as far
as I know, they are the only company out there
that actually has oils for internal use. So they have
a vitality line and they have a vitality black pepper,
So you can be safe knowing that that can go
(05:09):
on your food. You could use that for dressings or
for any kind of cooking. You know that black pepper
oil is going to be perfectly safe for that. But
there is so much more to do with black pepper
than just take it internally or just use it, you know,
on your food. First of all, on this podcast, I
am not selling anything. I'm not selling any essential oils. Yes,
I just recommended Young Living, But you can go out
(05:31):
there anywhere and find anybody, find a friend or somebody
who's selling it. Right. So I'm telling you this because
I want to make a legal cut here. I want
to tell you about the benefits of black pepper as
an aroma therapist, not as a Young Living salesperson. Okay,
So as an aroma therapist, I'm just telling you there
(05:53):
is pain relief and anti inflammatory properties in black pepper,
and this words your body, so your body does the healing.
Your body heals itself. This is just natural properties that
can support your body in its own efforts to reduce
its own inflammation and to bring relief if it's under
(06:14):
stress and pain. Okay, black pepper contains a compound. Let's
see if I can say it. It's got this funny
little symbol like b careraphyline. That's the name of it.
This compound. It helps reduce pain and inflammation in the
body by helping the body to do that for itself.
And if you have you know, if you have sore
(06:35):
muscles or discomfort in your joints, adding black pepper to
some massage oil or to a even a coconut oil
or something, you know, a carrier oil of sometime and
rubbing that in can be very soothing because it's bringing
the blood to that area. It's a highly circulatory oil,
(06:55):
so it's wherever you put black pepper, it's going to
bring blood to the surface. And so when blood comes,
then blood brings your nutrients. Blood brings your own bodies
inflammatory support, It brings all the things that the blood does.
The life is in the blood, right, it's going to
help your body heal itself, relieve the pain, relieve the
things your body's going to do it and that black
(07:17):
pepper is going to support and help your body to
do that. So that is one of the really wonderful
things about black pepper. And if you like to make
your own blends, you know, you can get little rollerball
bottles just on Amazon. Type in ten mL middle eater
that's the size. I like, ten mL roller ball bottle.
And you can even put four essential oils and all
(07:39):
bunch of different bottles will come up, different colors, pretty bottles,
you know, you can just search through there. But you
can get yourself a couple of those glass bottles and
then put some coconut oil, liquid coconut oil, not the
hard white kind, but you can get a liquid coconut oil.
You could use avocado oil, you could use sweet almond oil.
(08:00):
A lot of different nice carrier oils that you can use. Actually,
I have an article about carrier oils and all the
different ones at the Aromascience Academy dot com. It's under
free information. There's a whole page on carrier oils there
that you can go look at the different ones. But anyway,
you basically make your own rollerball bottle. So if sore
(08:22):
joints are something you deal with, there are sore muscles,
you know, you can make a blend and make sure
that black pepper is in there. Okay. Another thing that
black pepper does is digestive support, so you know, if
you feel bloated or sluggish, it stimulates digestive enzymes. So again,
you're gonna only want the kind that has labeled for ingestion,
(08:44):
but you could put some in a capsule and take it.
I think it'd be a little too spicy to just
put under your tongue, so I would recommend a capsule
because I wouldn't want this taste in my mouth. Particularly,
I'd put a couple drops with carrier oil. Okay. So
again you're gonna have your handy dandy liquid coconut oil
and you're gonna put like three to four to five
drops of black pepper in that capsule. So you can
(09:07):
get veggie capsules at any place, Whole Foods, online, Amazon, wherever,
and then you're gonna put you know, three to five
drops of black pepper oil in there, and then you're
going to fill that capsule with the coconut oil, put
them together and then take it. It helps all the
digestive discomforts. That is a really great way to use it.
You could also if you wanted to just go topically,
(09:29):
you could just kind of massage it into your abdomen.
That would be another great way to use it. It's also
known to be good for respiratory health. Black pepper helps
your respiratory system. If you're feeling congested, black pepper acts
as an expectorant. It helps with the phlegm, It helps
the mucus, It helps clear all of that and supports
(09:51):
easier breathing. So you know, you could also try to
diffuse it. Kind of a nice little blend is black
pepper and eucalyptus together and that makes a really powerful
respiratory blend. So if you're struggling with the phlem and
all the things, you have your diffuser going by your desk.
You breathe that all day while you're working. Eucalyptus and
(10:12):
black pepper is a really good way to help support
your body. There's three or four different kinds of eucalyptuses
out there that are really beneficial. My favorite is one
called Eucalyptus globulus. You could get the other there's Eucalyptus radiata,
but my favorite is Eucalyptus globulus. And the reason why
it's my favorite is because I grew up as a
kid with my mom slapping vics on my feet every
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time I was sick or my chest. Now, I do
not support putting petroleum products on your body anymore, and
as a kid, that's all we had and nobody knew better, right,
But the very same smell that is in vics, they
use Eucalyptus globulus. So it's reminiscent to me of childhood
sickness and like it's the comfort of mom slapping that
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on my chest. And so I love that smell my
body like react like, oh I love it. I'm feeling
better already. You know there's a little emotional I'm sure
component to that. So you could put some black pepper
and eucalyptus together for a great blend. Okay, circulatory, So
wherever you put black pepper oil, it brings the blood
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to the surface. So if you have cold hands and feet.
This is something you can do. Black pepper increases circulation,
so it helps warm the body. You could put some
of this rollerball blend. If you do black pepper with
coconut oil. You could rub that on the bottoms of
your feet at night and put socks on before you
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go to bed. If you don't want to smell the
black pepper, but it will help your feet to warm up. Also,
you can use this in weight loss attempts. I use
this and I was blown away by the success. There
was a challenge that I entered of like trying to
lose weight. And one of the things that you did
was you got some massage oil and you added a
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bottom of black pepper to this bottle of massage oil,
and then you would massage that on stubborn areas that
you couldn't like get the weight off. You know. It's
like you sometimes you can go on a diet and
you can lose like ten pounds, and but you got
this place, you know, like right on the side of
your hip or or your belly or someplace that It's like, man,
even if you were like stick skinny, you think you're
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still gonna have fat in that one place it just
doesn't want to come off. Well, the reason is because
the blood is not flowing up into that area and
cleansing those cells and letting getting the waste out, pulling
the fat out and that kind of a thing. It's
like it probably is sealed off in a sense with biofilm,
and there's there's reasons why that would be. But black pepper,
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if you apply it topically to that area, it goes
into those cells and it pulls the blood up to
that area. So the blood is what does it. The
blood is what cleanses. The blood comes in and pull
some waste out and processes that out of your body. Right,
So the black pepper is going to bring blood to
that area and help you attack that area. I did
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have great success, Like in two weeks. All I did
was that massage oil and the black pepper, and I
was amazed. I think I lost four inches in two weeks,
like around my waist. I was like, oh my gosh.
I didn't expect the results to be that good. And
the oil was it. It was a massage oil from
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Young Living. It was gosh. Oh it was the one
called cell you Light Cell Light. I added the black
pepper into it, so I poured, I opened up the bottle,
poured a little bit out enough that I could put
a whole bottles five MILLI later bottle black pepper into
that and then seal it up, shake it up, and
then that's what I used every day. I probably applied
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it three times a day for two weeks to see
that those inches come off. So anyway, that's one another
way you can use black pepper. Now, black peppers, there's
two more ways that you can use it, and I'm
going to tell you about this. One is you can
use it for mental clarity and emotional support. So the warm,
spicy aroma of black pepper, it's stimulating, it's grounding. It
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may not come across as something you're like, oh it
makes you feel good about yourself or anything, but it
is stimulating and grounding. When you smell that, it goes
up through your olfactory nerve, crosses the blood brain barrier,
gets into your brain, and it goes to the amygdala.
It doesn't have to smell like cookies to have emotional support.
You can get emotional support from strange smells that are
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I would just say strange. You're gonna recognize black pepper.
But I'm just saying. It's not like, oh, it's not
like vanilla and chocolate. It's like, no, this is like
black pepper. But it is stimulating. It stimulates, it brings blood.
It'll bring blood to your brain. It's got a real
grounding smell to it, and so it helps with focus,
like mental focus. So if you're needing to focus on something,
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maybe at work, you're having a hard time focusing, get
your black pepper. Put it in your diffuser, or put
some in this roller ball blend and like put it
under your nose and get yourself smelling it. It helps
you with focus. It also helps reduce stress and anxiety. Now,
for the young living people who do who love the
Ninja Nitros, they're like little drinks. They're similar to energy drink,
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but it's not for energy. It's for mental focus. And
the key factor in that drink is the black pepper oil.
And that's why you get such like you get a
couple hours of focus. And I totally do, Like, if
I'm going to go speak publicly, I will drink one
of those knowing that I'm like, I hone in for
a couple hours and I can really focus. And the
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last thing is it helps you to reduce craving, so
it can help like with nicotine cravings. So if you
are trying to stop smoking, black pepper oil has actually
been studied for reducing nicotine craving. So you make your
little rollerball bottle, get you know that little glass rollerball
bottle off of Amazon, a liter bottle. You're gonna put
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like five to ten drops of black pepper or central
oil in there, and then you're gonna fill it up
maybe two thirds of the way with coconut oil. You
can make it stronger if you want to. You have
to kind of determine your own strength that you want
it for. But daily as you're trying to overcome cravings,
you would smell that black pepper oil, all right. So
those are all the therapeutic benefits. Isn't that great? Now?
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I could go on and on about black pepper oil
really quickly. I won't spend a lot of time on it,
but I'll tell you a little bit about where black
pepper grows. It's a flowering vine in the piper Asia family,
but it grows best in tropical climates with warm, humid conditions.
Grows best in loamy, well drained soil, and in partially
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shaded areas. The biggest black pepper producers in the world
are in India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Brazil.
It's got to have this tropical climate to grow in.
But these vines can grow up to twenty feet long,
and the plant produces small white flowers which turn into
little green berries. Then as they mature they turn red
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and when they're dried they become black peppercorns that we
all know and love and grind and put on our foods. Right,
So the pronunciation is piper nigrum in like an nye,
you know, nigrum, And this is the Latin for black pepper,
so you can impress all your friends, you know some
Latin I do have. Also just a tiny little bit
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of cool history. So black pepper was once considered as
valuable as gold, like the ancient Romans used it as
a currency. And in four ten AD, when the Visigoths,
led by Alaric a la Aric besieged Rome, they demanded
a ransom that included three thousand pounds of black pepper.
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And so yeah, that's a hot commodity, literally hot. I'm
trying some dry humor eres you know, probably not working
for me. So anyway, the search for direct trade routes
to India for black pepper was a key reason beyond
behind the age of the exploration. So yeah, spices like
black pepper literally changed the course of history. So really,
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black pepper essential oil. Here's just a summary of how
you can use it. You can diffuse it for a
warming grounding aroma. You can add some carrier oil to
it and massage it into sore muscles for some pain
support and relief. You can blend it with citrus oils
like orange or lemon for like a really energizing and
spicy scent. And you can inhale it when you have
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the need for mental clarity and focus. I hope you've
enjoyed this spicy deep dive into black pepper essential oil.
If you want to keep learning, don't forget to visit
the Aromascience Academy dot com to check out my aromatherapy courses.
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