A few years back, my 3 yr. old developed a stuttering problem. He was a bright talkative little boy and at first we laughed when he repeated a word several times,thinking he was playing around. As the days and weeks wore on we realized that he wasn't playing at all. He developed a severe stuttering problem. He would get "stuck" on a word and repeat it 10 to 20 times. It got so bad that he would stutter on 4 out of 5 words in a sentence.
We became extremely worried. Would everyone laugh at him and treat him differently? What could we do to help him? Would he need therapy for years or would he "grow out of it?" I spoke with a relative who was studying to be a speech therapist and she recommended journaling when the stuttering occurred and under what circumstances-I guess to see if there was a trigger. But by this time he was just stuttering all day every day. Of course I began to research on the internet and learned a few things. Contrary to popular opinion, a traumatic event isn't necessarily the cause of stuttering in children, some children outgrow it on their own, and there are no known drugs that take away or end stuttering.
About this time, I told my sister about my son's problem since we were so worried. She was visiting soon afterwards and told me we should try some natural essential oils-the 8 oils applied with a certain technique (Aromatouch) on his back and feet. She hadn't had experience with using this technique for stuttering before but she had been trained in the technique by the incredible doctor specializing in essential oils who developed it, Dr. David Hill, and she had seen such amazing results with it for other health concerns that she figured it was worth a try. Up to this point, my experience using essential oils was not very extensive and I was a bit skeptical.
What happened was mind-blowing for us. After the first application of the oils, his stuttering seemed to have decreased a little bit but I figured it was just relaxing for him and that was the reason. Well, my sister recommended that we keep applying the oils every other day and she showed me how to do it. So, despite our skepticism, I applied the oils on him every other day for a week or so. Unbelievably, the stuttering totally stopped! Well, of course there was the possibility that he had just outgrown it that week, right? I mean really... Well, we were busy and since he was no longer stuttering we stopped applying the oils and the next week the stuttering started again. So we decided to start applying the oils again and...you guessed it, the stuttering stopped again. So this time we slowly increased the length of time (days) between applications until after a couple of weeks or so he was no longer stuttering and no longer needed the oils. He was totally fine.
We felt so blessed that we could have this experience and that natural plant extracts could heal like that. The Aromatouch technique was developed to manage four systemic constants that are common factors at the foundation of illness in the body: stress, toxic insult, inflammatory response, and autonomic imbalance.
That is the happy ending for Ammon's story but when you have a child who develops a problem like this, you try to figure out what caused it. We didn't have any genetic disposition towards stuttering in our families but as we thought about the short period of time right before the stuttering started we realized that we had used a very toxic chemical in the room next to his and he had been exposed to it directly by being in the room where it was applied as well as being exposed to it through the ventilation system which connected both rooms. It was a wallpaper stripper which we had applied with a sprayer and without proper ventilation or respiratory protection for our family.
There is no way to know for sure if this was the cause of the stuttering or if it was a developmental glitch in his brain but an article by Dr. David Stewart helped me understand how the oils may have worked for our son. Dr. Stewart describes the role of essential oils, their regulation of bodily functions, and how they create homeostasis in plants and in humans:
Essential oils have been called “the life blood of a plant.” They circulate through plant tissues and pass through cell walls, carrying nutrition into cells and carrying waste products out. [Page 59]
When essential oils are applied to people, they do the same thing, carrying oxygen into cells and carrying waste products out. In fact, essential oils are one of nature’s best body cleansers. They can cleanse our cellular receptor sites of pharmaceutical drugs, petrochemicals, and other disruptors of intercellular communication. They can also chelate heavy metals and other toxins, helping to remove and flush them through the liver, colon, sweat, lungs, and kidneys. They can also increase our ability to absorb vitamins and other nutrients. [Page 59]
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/using-essential-oils-to-cure-disease/#sthash.D9BofxFR.dpuf
I believe that the essential oils cleansed the toxins from my son's cells, making normal speech possible again, or fixing the problem in his brain that caused the stuttering . I love to share our story with the hope that they might make a huge difference in their lives like they have for us!
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