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 What is Aromatherapy? Aromatherapy is a type of natural therapy with the use of pure essential oils for physical psychological and aesthetic purposes. The essential oil can be absorbed by breathing in the aromatic vapours (using an aroma diffuser, burner) or can be applied on the skin by rubbing, massage, compresses and baths. Because essential oils have a unique lipid-soluble structure, they are able to easily pass through our skin and diffuse into the bloodstream. Tests have shown that most essential oils have been detected in the blood and liver just a few minutes after application to the skin. What are essential oils? Essential oils are aromatic and volatile liquids extracted from flowers, seeds, leaves, stems, bark, fruit and roots of various plants mostly through a special distillation and other methods. They are highly concentrated and have powerful healing properties thanks to their unique chemical constituents which depend on many factors like: soil condition, geographical region, altitude, climate, harvest season, method of distillation and parts of the plant from which the oil was extracted. Essential oil is the life blood of a plant and the most concentrated and powerful of all natural extracts. It is 75 to 100 times more concentrated than dried herbs. It is very costly to produce a pure, therapeutic essential oil. For example, one kilogram of pure Melissa oil can cost over $10,000 because six tons of plant material is needed to produce that one kilo. History Essential oils have been used for thousands of years. According to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and Chinese manuscripts, priests and physicians were using essential oils a long time before Christ to heal the sick. They are the oldest form of medicine and cosmetics known to man and were considered more valuable than gold. There are 188 references to oils in the Bible. Although aromatherapy has been known for ages, it's popularity and use has grown immensely just recently in the last 20 or 30 years. This is a brief, general description of aromatherapy. Would you like to learn more abut aromatherapy? List of books with a comprehensive information.
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