The medical uses of essential oils are being validated almost daily by scientific investigators around the world, and one of the most important arenas is in anticancer research. The practical medical use of essential oils and aromatherapy is gaining a foothold in the US, as the population turns to natural medicine — seeing that the conventional medical system is in such a quandary. Many people are loosing faith in technology for much of the healing it originally promised. While highly effective at trauma medicine, in the realm of infectious diseases, degenerative illnesses, and cancer, modern medicine is turning out to have costs that far and away outweigh its benefits. Please don’t take us wrong — many, many people have had their lives saved and drastically improved by modern treatments, but evidence is mounting that the eschewing of plant based medicine has not been to the patients best interests.