YOUNG  LIVING  TRAINING  CD #73
The Power of “Thieves” 
Gary Young, ND

We welcome you to Training CD #73  from the 2005 Young Living International Convention, a highly
informative lecture by Gary Young on the Power of Thieves Essential Oil Blend and other Young Living products
utilizing the Thieves essential oil blend  And now here is Gary to share this important information.

Gary Young – Let’s Talk about Thieves
Let’s talk about Thieves this morning
because of our Thieves line.  This was an oil blend
that I made in about 1990 of 1991–it was created as a
result of study-ing at the Warwick University in
London, England and  spending many hours at the
London library research-ing oils and oil history.  It’s
been a wonderful time because of the stories that
have been written.  
I must tell you that I have read 17 different
versions of the story of the thieves during the plague
of the 1700′s.  Of course, there was a plague in the
1400′s and there was a story written then about
thieves.  We have four thieves and we have 40
thieves and there are many stories, but I can tell you
a little bit about the story of the thieves.

Stories Behind the Thieves
The thieves happen to have been merchants
and spice traders, and that’s how they knew about
the oils because they were importing cinnamon and
clove from
India and when the plague hit, the kings
of the various countries sent out a mandate closing
down inter-national commerce and shipping.  So all
of the ships were docked and they couldn’t sell and
they couldn’t engage in their business and they were
going broke.        The spice trade was a very
lucrative trade and they made money at it, so they
decided, “Well–all of these people are dying and
they are afraid to touch them.  We might as well go
loot their bodies and take the things off and go into
the homes where everybody is dead and take the
things out of the homes, like pots and pans and
jewelry and clothing and set up a pawn shop trade…” 
that’s when pawn shops evolved.
Of course, you have heard the story when
the king issued the proclamation to have the thieves
captured, but the constables were afraid to touch
them because they knew they had been touching the
dead bodies and going in the homes of the dead
people, and they didn’t want the plague.
It became so severe that the king even
executed a few of the constables that refused. 
Finally, it was a life or death issue, and as the story
goes on there were four of them who were caught. 
The king gave them an opportunity to confess the
secret of their immunity, either with the choice of
burning at the stake or being hung by the neck,
meaning if they didn’t give up their secret they
would be burned at the stake, and worse if they gave
up their secret they would be hung by the neck–and
they chose hanging.  They gave up their secret and it
was published and plastered all through the town.

Oils Used in the Stories
The oils in the 17 different stories and
different versions list different oils that were used,
and so I am sure that no one really knows for sure
which oils were actually used, but we definitely
know that they were spiced oils.  We definitely
know that Oregano, Cinna-mon,and Clove were oils
that were traded at that time and we know because of
the power of Cinnamon and Clove they were most
likely two of the oils of choice.  Most of the 17
stories listed Clove and Cinnamon, so taking that,
we looked at it and then I went back and started
looking at some of the stories and going through the
oils and looking at their chemistry structure to
determine what to use.  
They didn’t have access to all of the oils.
We asked, “Do we want to duplicate exactly what
they were doing, or can we make it better?”  My
feeling was, “Let’s make it a little better.”  
Rene-Maurice Gattefosse wrote about the
story of the four thieves and told his version of it,
and it varied from many of the other versions.  I’m
not saying that his is wrong or theirs are right or
anything. Stories are told–that’s typical.

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The formula of the thieves, they said, was
Worm wood, Meadow Sweet, wild Marjoram, Sage,
Clove, Angelica, Rosemary, Horehound, Camphor.

  However, in the other stories it was Cinnamon,
Clove, Oregano, Rosemary, so I just looked at it and
said, “Well, I am going to use the story as an
education factor, so let’s go forward and make a
blend that I feel is going to be the most beneficial for
our time.  
The was another story in
Marseilles that was
adding Rue and Garlic and Calamus.  Calamus is a
very beautiful oil. It’s not produced in large volume,
so we haven’t used it because of that fact.  It appears
that the antidote for the four thieves of
Marseilles is
only a repetition of a much older story–and that is
true, and that’s why there are 17 different stories, so
we looked at Thieves and what we could do with it.  

Acid, Mucous, and Inflammation
Let me just share a few things before I go
further.  When you are dealing with respiratory
problems or colds or flu of any kind, the body
produces a great deal of acid and that acid produces
a great deal of mucous. Abnormally, thick, tenacious
mucous accumulating  in the pancreatic ducts creates
a delineation, and this is the beginning of fibrocystic
conditions and low grade inflammations.
Inflammation is the host for heart disease, cancer,
and other diseases, so any time our body starts
accumulating mucous we have a problem
developing. 
This statement might be of interest to you as
well, “Mucous in excess in the edema fluids (which
accum-late interstitially with the  tissue is the
primary cause of nasal polyps.”  So what is causing
that?  Acid and excess mucous. That is the primary
cause of those conditions–nasal polyps. Polyps will
grow in other areas, but this is much more specific
and that will also contribute to certain tumors in the
body.  All the more reason to keep the mucous level
(which is keeping the acid levels) as low as possible.  

Individual Reactions are Different
We do that by simply eliminating the foods
that create acid.  Something that is very important to
remember is that what creates acid in one body
doesn’t necessarily create it in another body, so it is
extremely important to look at yourself and not look
at the whole picture of what everyone else around
you is doing.  One person can eat a teaspoon of
sugar and get away with it and another person eats a
quarter of a teaspoon of sugar and has cancer six
years later, so we each need to pay attention to our
own individual bodies.  Now, how does this fit with
Thieves?  For the very simple reason that Thieves is
an oil blend that is extremely powerful in dissolving
excess mucous in the body. 

Thieves Dissolves Mucous
Thieves is an oil blend that is very powerful
in suppressing the activity of the macrophages when
they start secreting nitric oxide acid, and that is a
condition that happens every time there is a
contusion to the body, every time there is an
abnormal condition with inflammation, such as
stress that causes inflammation.       Where does
inflammation come from?  Perhaps this is an area
that a lot of us don’t understand, but whenever there
is excess stress cortisol levels go up, the body will
start secreting acid, and acid triggers the
macrophages in the tissues to release nitric oxide
acid and it starts to build once it enters the interstitial
fluids.  Then it can start contributing to certain
tumors and polyps.  
When dealing with cancer and fibroid
tumors, it’s an acid condition, and the first thing you
have to do is start reducing that acid.  Thieves is
exceptionally strong in the dissolving and the
digestion of the inter-stitial acids and fluid acids and
the digestion of hardened mucous.

Structure of Polyps
When you understand the structure of
polyps, you find that polyps is hardened mucous
matter.  People say, “Well, it grows.”  Yes, it does
grow.  It grows through accumulation, and so it will
constantly keep repeating itself .  If you remove the
polyps they will come right back in time because the
condition is there that is still feeding it.  We feel we
can remove it surgically, and we do–and  we  have
temporary remissions at times–but it will come back. 
The duration of it being gone and how quickly it
comes back depends on how quick the acid supply is
reestablished.  Those are some things that can be
very key to that.

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Vinegar Neutralizes Acid
The people at
Marseilles claim to be more
lenient and grateful and they spared the lives of the
poor thieves.  In any case, whatever its origin, the
vinegar was a type of antiseptic based on aromatic
substance. 
  Vinegar and olive oil were used at great
lengths in working as an emulsifying agent for
essential oils.  Because vinegar is very powerful (and
if we look at this structure) it becomes very
interesting.  Vinegar is  neutralizer of acid, so it
makes an absolute perfect medium to put essential
oils into.  What a great way to ingest Thieves by
putting a few drops in a two ounce glass of vinegar
and taking it down in the morning. Now you’ve got a
substance that will reset pH of the stomach, and the
oils are there present in the reestab-lishment of the
pH to immediately go to work in digesting acid.  
For those of you who were in my classes on
Thursday, we talked a great deal about that and I just
reiterated again the power of oils literally giving up
themselves (or sacrificing themselves) to neutralize
acid in the body.

Good Daily Ritual
If you do it on a repetition basis where you
are doing this as a practice every morning and maybe
in the evening before going to bed, then you are
going to start reducing those acid levels very
quickly, and over a period of time (and I don’t put a
time frame on it because it’s different for everyone)
you will reestab-lish that proper balance in the body,
and that’s very important.  It’s interesting to me that
the ancient people knew this without even
understanding what we would call the “Law of
Physics” or understanding nutritional chemistry and
knowing that vinegar was a neutralizer of acid.  
Essential oils, naturally, are very powerful
antiseptics and antibacterial agents and antimicrobial
agents, and because of their action that’s why they
have such a global effect on the body.   

Essential Oils Make a Difference
How many of you used Peppermint oil while
at the farm yesterday?  Fantastic!  Did it make a
difference?  You bet it does!  Peppermint has the
ability to reduce temperature because of the cooling
action of the methal and methone in Peppermint oil. 
So there are many, many benefits that you get from
that.  Not only do you get a cooling action, but you
get the antimicrobial action as well, so we find many 
benefits.
Thieves.  How many put Thieves on their
feet yes-terday morning before going to the farm. 
Yes!  And none of you came back sick!  Why did
you put it on your feet?  Because it’s a safe place to
put it.  But maybe tomorrow you might want to try
putting it in a little vinegar and drinking it and
seeing the difference it makes, particularly for
clearing the throat.  It is very powerful. Use apple
cider vinegar, and it’s best if you go to the health
food store and get the raw apple cider vinegar that
still has the culture inside of it that you can see
through the bottle.  Don’t go to Safeway and buy
Heinz Vinegar!  It will destroy your oil.

Formula Documented in 1830
The formula of the four thieves was
documented in 1830 to have been used up as late as
1793 for treating the Yellow Fever.  What happened
during this time period from 1780 that they quit
using the oils in vinegar?  Who knows what started
taking place in 1780?  That is the year when
antibiotics started being engineered and
experimented with, and by 1790 they started using
some antibiotics and by the 1800′s they were coming
on fairly strong, so this was a new wave.    What
happens when there is a new wave?  Everybody
wants to jump on the surf board, don’t they!  This is
new and it’s exciting! Education was evolving at that
time. Medicine in the education arena was evolving
and newspapers were being written and news articles
and medical articles were being written, and they
were being circulated.  The educated people were
telling the uneducated people, “We have found a
new way to protect the human body with these new
antibiotics.”
Well, these folks were remembering the
stories of their grandparents and great grandparents
of the plagues and all the people who had died, and
yet it is  very interesting that we had these antibiotics
in 1920 and they didn’t prevent the flu that swept
around the world killing millions of people.  That
didn’t make a difference because the campaign was
for the anti-biotics–and everybody wanted to be part
of this “new generation,” this new energy, this new
information, these new revelations–and they all
became part of it and it gained a lot of energy and a
lot of momentum.  So old formulas that had worked
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for hundreds or thousands of years gave way to the
new world.

Coming

Where are we now, 200 years later?  We are
coming full-circle back to that which worked and
worked much better and more effectively.  So we
look at the Thieves oil blend and the oils that are in
it.  It’s a very exciting blend, needless to say.

Back Full Circle

 

 

 

 

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