If common medicines are not available in your outdoor adventures, it is always good to know some natural additions to your medical kit. You will need to draw upon the lessons taught by our ancestors and rely on the natural medicines that can be found around us. One of those natural medicines is a group known as “essential oils.” Now, you ask, “How can these natural elements be of use in my medical kit?” “What makes them work?” To find the answers to these questions, I turned to expert sources I could trust. I contacted Dr. Joseph Alton and Amy Alton, A.R.N.P., who own Doom and Bloom; Retha Nesmith, certified aromatherapist for Plant Therapy in Idaho; Victoria DiMonda, R.N., owner of Green Mountain Tick Repellent in Vermont; and Karen Girardo, owner of Just Naturals, in Bedford, New Hampshire. All are authorities in the use of essential oils and provided me with a wealth of information. Essential oils are “… liquids comprised of highly concentrated aromatic mixtures of compounds obt
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