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Aromatherapy - Modern Miracle or Ancient Secret?
Aromatherapy is the use of powerful, natural, fragrant plant essences - essential oils, for well being, home and lifestyle enhancement and to help maintain good health and good looks .
| Aromatherapy - the use of aromatic essential oils - is a popular, enjoyable and effective way to help maintain and enhance well-being, health and beauty and lifestyle. For centuries mankind has used plants, many of them fragrant, in the treatment of common ailments, using them, too, in cosmetics and around the home. In France, a system using the aromatic qualities of plants was developed and is commonly called "Aromatherapie", or Aromatherapy in English. Essential oils are fascinating, but potent, natural plants extracts. Aromatherapists use "essential oils", the aromatic principles of plants, in massage, bathing and vapourisations as an aid in body, mind and skin care. | How Aromatherapy Works |
AROMATHERAPY is an holistic form of healing which works with the body to promote health and well-being, by harnessing the healing powers of plants through essential oils. The use of essential oils dates back to ancient times, but there has never been a time when essential oils are more needed that today.
Aromatherapy has been successful in the treatment of many conditions, ranging form muscular to skin, digestive to respiratory problems.
Pure Essential Oils make a real and significant contribution to our general well-being. Pure Essential Oils are scientifically proven to be beneficial for healing just about every ailment you can think of...! The use of essential oils is also perfect for a little self indulgence for those times when we have pushed the body just that bit too far.
Introducing Aromatherapy -
Some Basics About Pure Essential Oils
A Modern Miracle and an Ancient Healing Secret
Use of the word oils is a bit of a misnomer... Essential Oils aren't really oils. They are not greasy, they are usually light as water and they evaporate quickly. Essential Oils are the aromatic, volatile liquids extracted from plants usually through distillation. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and Chinese manuscripts show that thousands of years before Christ, priests and physicians used Essential Oils to enhance health. Some considered them more valuable than gold...the three wise men brought gold and two precious oils: frankincense and myrrh, to the Christ-child.
THE HISTORY OF AROMATHERAPY
The use of fragrant oils from aromatic plants dates back to the ancient Egyptians almost 3000 years BC. They used Cedar oil for example in medicine, embalming, religious ceremonies and perfume. The Chinese have a long tradition of plant usage as do the people of India whose medicine was entirely plant based.
The revival of interest in essential oils began in the 1930’s, when a French chemist, Rene Gattefosse started to research the healing properties of the oils. His interest was sparked when he badly burnt his hand and plunged it immediately into a bowl of neat Lavender oil which was the nearest liquid at hand. Not only did his wounds heal exceedingly quickly, but there was no scarring either.
Aromatherapy has now grown into a credible and expanding form of complementary therapy with a strong following among therapist and doctors alike.
HOW AROMATHERAPY WORKS
Our sense of smell is far more important than we first may realize. The nose is aware of more smells than the ears are aware of sounds. An aroma along will influence a person’s mood and can enhance efficiency or capability.
Recreating the aroma of a time when we were completely at ease, a beach holiday and the smell of the sea, for example, can activate he memory area of the brain and that same state of relaxation will return.
There is also evidence to suggest a connection between our sense of smell and the basic human needs for food, security and sexuality - i.e. smelling food incites hunger.
Aromatherapy - a 90's Healing Modality
Today, we know that pure Essential Oils contain oxygenating molecules, which transport nutrients directly to the cells of the body. Modern science now admits it has only scratched the surface in investigating the incredible healing power of pure Essential Oils. In the 90's, Aromatherapy is becoming widely recognized as a valid healing modality.
Many scientific experiments have shown that essential oils can travel quickly when inhaled or applied through massage. The liquid solubulity of essential oils allows them to travel directly through the cells. The oils serve to improve the velocity or movement of blood through the body, and decrease the viscosity or thickness of the blood at the same time. It is amazing - but true - that certain chemical components in essential oils can destroy viruses and bacteria, while at the same time supply oxygen that delivers life-giving nutrients to the cell nucleus. Scientists have now discovered that no known bacteria or viruses can live in the presence of certain essential oils such as cinammon and oregano.
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