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Another Oil Testimonials find is the "morphine bomb". People seem to think this is very effective for chronic pain.

My 60 y.o. brother has lots of aches and pains. He played football in high school and worked in the oil field services industry for decades. The coup de grace is when he had a head-on collision between his Chevy Caprice and an 18-wheeler going the opposite direction in the same ice rut. Since he retired last year he's done yoga, massage, rolfing, and even had two guys walking on his back at the same time to work out some knots. He's doing a lot better, but he still has some aggravating neck pain.

I sent him the materials for the morphine bomb and he tried it this week. He says if it's not the oils then it's the best placebo he has ever tried. He's very happy with the results, and even has his Chinese wife (an amateur herbalist) using it for her aches.

I did some Oil-Testimonials.com research on migraine because it came up on another thread the other day. What I found was a huge variety of oily approaches to migraine, reportedly successful for the individual who reported each combination. Here's a sample of the non-proprietary solutions:

Peppermint + lavender + copaiba (one drop each)
Eucalyptus radiata followed by peppermint, massaged into the "sinus points" on the foot.
Peppermint inhaled, applied to temples and forehead, and imbibed with hot chocoloate.
Frankincense, around the eyes for ocular migraines.
Peppermint on neck, forehead, below nose, and on chest and neck, and inhaled deeply from hands for two minutes.
Frankincense + Idaho balsam fir, one drop each, mixed in palm, applied to roof of mouth.
Peppermint + helichrysum, applied to temples, base of skull, back of ears, jaw line.
Basil, inhaled from the bottle.
Peppermint under tongue and applied to neck and temples.
Lemon.
Lavender and peppermint on temples.
Idaho blue spruce.

There were also a number of solutions incorporating Young Living brand products, Apparently most of the contributors to Oil-Testimonials are YL users.

Sulfurzyme (a supplement).
Thieves (YL's all-purpose immune support blend)
Endoflex (YL's endocrine system support blend)
M-Grain (YL's migraine-specific blend).
Aroma Siez + M-Grain + Aroma Life.
Dragon Time (YL's time-of-the-month blend).
PanAway (YL's pain relief blend).
PanAway + Peppermint.
Deep Relief (YL's muscle pain relief blend).
Etc.

The evidence shows that there is no consensus oily solution for migraine, though peppermint is the most popular, followed perhaps by lavender and frankincense. If you're interested in digging deeper, here are two searches you might find useful:

Ping to the Natural Health/EO crowd. There are a few messages upthread that I haven't bothered to ping everybody on, so you might want to scroll up a bit.

Apologies, LJ, if it seems like I have hijacked your thread, but I know you have a lot to deal with in your life these days so perhaps you won't mind.

Although I still haven't tried it myself, I've received feedback on the drug-free "morphine bomb" that I mentioned in post 794. My brother has been using it for nearly a month, and swears by it. He takes it once a day, and his neck pain is well managed with no side-effects. He said that the one day that he forgot to take it, the pain returned as it was before. His wife is also happy with her use of it. He ordered more of the ingredients today

This past weekend my mother-in-law had a pacemaker put in. Nowadays that's minor surgery, and she was out of the hospital the same day. But there's still residual pain. Tylenol didn't solve the problem and she's not allowed NSAIDs because they promote bleeding. The morphine bomb came to the rescue, and she feels much better.