Jeffrey Jaime explains why swallowing peppermint oil straight is risky, then shows how tinctures work better. Three drops of neat oil hits about 120 mg daily, roughly equivalent to 60 cups of peppermint tea. A tincture drop on the tongue absorbs fast through your lungs instead.
Approximately 120 milligrams (three drops × ~40 mg per drop).
Close to 60 cups of peppermint tea.
If you're using essential oils orally, and let's say a person is dropping them directly in their mouth, which I don't do. I'm not suggesting to do. And this is part of the reason why I created these tincture formulations. You know, if you get three drops and you're averaging 40 milligrams, that's 120 milligrams of, let's say, peppermint oil every day, which is what some people do. And that's a lot of information. That is close to 60 cups of peppermint tea in a single moment. Ingested every day. That doesn't sound like a great idea to me. So what I've done is I've created formulations like this spark tincture. And so drops from these.
That was the one that we kind of did. Up the nose. The insufflation up the nose or at the back of the throat?
Yep. And so let's go ahead and take a drop on the tongue right now.
Oh, you don't want to do up the nose live for the camera. I'd do it it.
But I'm going to follow your lead and just go to the back of the throat. Great.
You like to kind of inhale in after you do that drop?
Yeah. Get it into the. Into the lungs, through the alveoli, passing into the bloodstream. So it enters the body immediately.
No kidding. When you inhale like that, you're literally getting alveolar distribution into the bloodstream. That quickly?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, it's immediate.
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