Frankincense
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Sep 10, 2026
Kellyn MilaniGUEST
Mm-hmm
Tyna MooreHOST
... full-blown capacity of my nervous system with what was happening, uh, in my personal life with my mom and everything, and I ended up putting on a, what was it? Frankincense and DMSO topical for pain, developing a rash for that, where that had been applied topically, and then that started moving, and that's when I was like, "Oh, no.
Tyna MooreHOST
This is not good." [laughs] And now it's morphing and moving all over the place, and [laughs] then I started Rifaximin for my SIBO, and I reacted to that, and I wasn't sure if that was a Herxheimer reaction, which is just a reaction to the bug die-off, or if I was having a reaction to the medication.
Tyna MooreHOST
And so I'm like, "I'm gonna up it," and you're like, "Maybe you should discontinue it." [laughs]
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living lightly on a landscape that offered little to sedentary farmers.
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Beginning roughly in the 4th century BCE, they gained control of the incense trade routes that connected southern Arabia, the source of frankincense and myrrh, to the markets of the Mediterranean world.
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Frankincense and myrrh were luxury goods of extraordinary value.
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They were used in religious rituals across the ancient world, in Egyptian temples, in Greek sanctuaries, in Roman households.
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They were components of medicines, perfumes and embalming materials.
Chuck MisslerHOST
Gold speaks of his deity.
Chuck MisslerHOST
Frankincense was a incense used for priestly duties.
Chuck MisslerHOST
It's mixed with the showbread by the priests and so forth.
Chuck MisslerHOST
And myrrh, when crushed, is an ointment for burial.
Bethany AbelnGUEST
[laughs]
Marquay BelcherHOST
Frankincense and myrrh.
Marquay BelcherHOST
I'd also-
Blaise KautzmanHOST
Also, there would be 11 kings then
Catherine NobleheartGUEST
But frankincense does ameliorate and push away dark, dark energy.
Catherine NobleheartGUEST
That's so interesting.
Catherine NobleheartGUEST
Frankincense, you know, most people like to do smudging and I love that too.
Catherine NobleheartGUEST
It helps to clear the aura.
Catherine NobleheartGUEST
Palo Santo, I love that too.
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Noeleen SmythGUEST
Frankincense is the horn of Africa.
Noeleen SmythGUEST
So traditionally it would have been used in medicine.
Noeleen SmythGUEST
It's one of the oldest trades.
Noeleen SmythGUEST
It's
Ruth MedjberHOST
frankincense.
Noeleen SmythGUEST
Frankincense.
Ruth MedjberHOST
And you just have a big glorious box.
Laurel HooverGUEST
Not all, but safer, right? Essential oils are extraordinarily potent for inflammation.
Laurel HooverGUEST
Frankincense is brilliant.
Laurel HooverGUEST
right? Detoxification, lemon essential oil,
Vanessa BaldwinHOST
brilliant.
5 MINS LATER
Laurel HooverGUEST
oh so not they all offer all the different brands offer different oils that I work with
Heather NielsenHOST
because you can't
Laurel HooverGUEST
get them all in one source because I work with so many but for Helichrysum, Myrrh Geranium, Ylang Ylang Frankincense Some of the guardian trees.
Laurel HooverGUEST
There's a handful of others that are good for the skin.
JimmyHOST
The southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, roughly modern-day Yemen, sat at the heart of one of the ancient world's most lucrative trade networks.
JimmyHOST
Frankincense and myrrh, both tree resins harvested almost exclusively in southern Arabia, Ethiopia, and Somalia, were essential commodities in Roman religious and daily life.
JimmyHOST
Romans burned frankincense at temples, at funerals, and in their homes, while myrrh, on the other hand, went into medicines, perfumes, and embalming preparations.
JimmyHOST
By some estimates, southern Arabia was shipping over 3,000 tons of frankincense annually to Greece and Rome at the trade's peak.
Kas MohammedGUEST
So the reason why I chose those is when I looked at the published scientific literature, there's many different essential oils that have been studied, possibly hundreds.
Kas MohammedGUEST
But in terms of what seemed to be the most evidenced, it was definitely frankincense.
Kas MohammedGUEST
Frankincense is probably the most studied, as far as I could tell.
Kas MohammedGUEST
And thyme also has quite a lot of studies behind it for various different cancers.
Kas MohammedGUEST
So that's why I chose those two.
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