Chemist and medical aromatherapy educator Kurt Schnaubelt, PhD, from the Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy, discusses the chemistry and science of healing with organic essential oils. Plants communicate and as they do, their aromatic terpenoids interact with their environment to protect them and to get what they need. Since we are part of their environment, these complex chemical scents affect us too. Distinct from herbal tinctures and concoctions, these oils can be transported through our skin and inhaled to rebalance our hormones, increase production of enzymes to support the liver's detoxification, as anti-inflammatories, anti-virals, and antibiotics, even to control gene expression for the treatment and prevention of cancers. With all this balanced pharmacology around with its gentle organic milieu intact, why would anyone need to resort to standardized, synthesized, and manipulated pharmaceuticals? And why wouldn't we protect their ecology and promotion? Find out in the next hour. Hosted by Layna Berman. Produced by Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD.