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Aromatherapy and Herbal Medicine -- Some Quotes

"I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the Arabah the cypress, the maple, and the box tree together; That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the L-RD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it. (Isaiah 41:19-20)


Oil for beauty

"And when every maid’s turn had come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, namely six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet perfumes, and with other ointments for women" (Esther 2:12)


Medicine

"The well-being of the soul can be obtained only after the body has been secured" (Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed 3.27)

"...and their fruit shall be for food, and their leaves for healing." (Ezekiel 47:12)


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