Professional Aromatherapist
Aromatherapy is a form of alternative & complimentary medicine that uses volatile plant materials known as essential oil & other aromatic compounds for the purpose of improving a persons mood, cognitive function, physical, and psychological health. Sometimes used in combination with massage, & other therapeutic techniques as a part of a holistic treatment approach. Practitioners of aromatherapy believe that the aroma’s of these essential oils directly stimulate the brain, & that the oils are absorbed through the skin into the blood stream where they can affect the whole body & promote our own bodies natural healing mechanisms.
Aromatherapy Essential oils & Immunity
“INTELLIGENT CHEMISTRY”
Essential oils contain hundreds of molecules that work togther to kill viruses & Bacteria & support our bodies health. Unlike drugs… Viruses DO NOT DEVELOPE RESISTANCE to essential oils because each batch of essential oil is unique depending on growing season, temperature range, time of harvest & more. For this reason oils can be more effective at beating cold and flu symptoms than drugs & they continue to work long after a virus would have developed resistant to antibiotics.
Essential oils are concentrated organic living molecules (organic chemicals). The life force that make up herbs & plants. Moss, Herbs, Plants, Trees, Roots, or Seeds, all store their volitile oils in different areas eg: sweet orange stores it’s volitile oils in it’s skin/rind. Rose in it’s flower, Cedar in it’s wood, Carrot in it’s seed, or ginger in it’s root. The oils in the plants are there to serve a purpose, either to protect the plant from it’s predators. Or to attract it’s precious pollinators.
All essential oils are natural antiseptics, & some essential oils are antibacterial eg. oregano, eucalyptus, tea tree, patchouli & lemongrass. Pure essential oils should always be diluted with carrier oils, or salts before being applied to the skin or added to a bath.
1904 Cuthbert Hall proved that natural eucalyptus oil was more effective than it’s synthesized counterpart.
425 B.C. Hippocrates the ‘Father of Medicine’ advocated the value of fragrance, teaching that ” A daily aromatic bath or massage is excellent for the health “
1700 A.D. Essential oils were used in Main stream Medicine.
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Aromatherapy offers diverse physical and psychological benefits, depending on the essential oil or oil combination and method of application used. Some common medicinal properties of essential oils used in aromatherapy include: analgesic, antimicrobial, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, astringent, sedative, antispasmodic, expectorant, diuretic, and sedative. Essential oils are used to treat a wide range of symptoms and conditions, including, but not limited to, gastrointestinal discomfort, skin conditions, menstrual pain and irregularities, stress-related conditions, mood disorders, circulatory problems, respiratory infections, and wounds.
History
Aromatic plants have been employed for their healing, preservative, and pleasurable qualities throughout recorded history in both the East and West. As early as 1500 B.C. There is evidence that the Chinese may have recognized the benefits of herbal and aromatic remedies much earlier than this. Ayurveda, a practice of traditional Indian medicine that dates back over 2,500 years, also used aromatic herbs for treatment. The Romans were well-known for their use of fragrances. They bathed with botanicals and integrated them into their state and religious rituals. The Greeks, with a growing awareness of the medicinal properties of herbs, as well.
Written records of herbal distillation are found as early as the first century A.D., and around 1000 A.D., the noted Arab physician and naturalist Avicenna described the distillation of rose oil from rose petals, and the medicinal properties of essential oils in his writings. However, it wasn’t until 1937, when French chemist René-Maurice Gattefossé published Aromatherapie: Les Huiles essentielles, hormones végétales, that aromatherapie, or aromatherapy, was introduced in Europe as a medical discipline.
In the late 20th century, French physician Jean Valnet used botanical aromatics as a front line treatment for wounded soldiers in World War II. He wrote about his use of essential oils and their healing and antiseptic properties, in his 1964.
French biochemist Mauguerite Maury popularized the cosmetic benefits of essential oils.
1977 Robert Tisserand wrote the first English language book on the subject, The Art of Aromatherapy, which introduced massage as an adjunct treatment to aromatherapy and sparked its popularity in the United Kingdom.
In aromatherapy, essential oils are carefully selected for their medicinal properties. As essential oils are absorbed into the bloodstream through application to the skin or inhalation, their active components trigger certain pharmalogical effects (e.g., pain relief).
In addition to physical benefits, aromatherapy has strong psychological benefits. The volatility of an oil, or the speed at which it evaporates in open air, is thought to be linked to the specific psychological effect of an oil. As a rule of thumb, oils that evaporate quickly are considered emotionally uplifting, while slowly-evaporating oils are thought to have a calming effect.
The Molecular Biology of Smell
The olfactory systems of humans consists of several million olfactory sensory neurons arrayed in a sensory epithelium located inside the nasal cavity. Each of these sensory neurons espresses one of approximately 350 odorant receptor genes, which confers upon that neuron a specific sensitivity to the set of odor molecules that will bind and activate the respective odorant receptor. It is widely believed that only a small region of the odor molecule is recognized by a given odorant receptor. Therefore unlike hearing or seeing, olfaction is not a spectral sense.