AROMATHERAPY – PLANT FORCES FOR BODY, MIND AND SOUL
Aromatherapy: refers to the use of essential oils to relieve disease or increase well-being.
Aromatherapy (part of plant medicine) mainly uses essential oils and carrier oils (for example, St. John’s wort oil, or aloa vera oil).
Aromatherapy: refers to the use of essential oils to relieve disease or increase well-being.
Aromatherapy (part of plant medicine) mainly uses essential oils and carrier oils (for example, St. John’s wort oil, or aloa vera oil).
It is assumed that wines with rose and myrtle scent were flavoured in China as early as 6000 years ago. The knowledge of the effect of the fragrances of plants – (aromatherapy) – is more than 5000 years old.
Even at the time of the ancient high cultures in Mesopotamia and Egypt fragrances or plant parts were used. Often in the form of incense.
In the Pharaoh Kingdom, aromatherapy was highly regarded. Fragrances and essential oils were more valuable than gold. Accordingly, you were rare.
The Roman historian Pliny the Elder reports about the use of mint leaves. For cleaning sick rooms.
The Oracle of Delphi gave prophecies in a room filled with incense scent.
In the Ayurveda philosophy (science of long life) the work with essential oils is an important component.
What we know today as wellness was already known and popular among the Romans in 300 BC. There, the fragrances were mainly appreciated for their sensual quality.
Already Susruta (Indian sage and doctor) described about 500 A.D. distillation of roses and lime oil.
The Persian physician and scholar Ibn Sina – known to us as Avicenna, invented around 1000 A.D. E.g. a cooling coil for steam distillation. Through his invention, aromatherapy and thus essential oils became more important.
His “Canon of Medicine” was until the 16th century the most important and important textbook of medicine. In this work, for example, he recommended essential oils and plant waters for the treatment of physical and mental illnesses.
In order to combat the plague and other epidemics, junipers, resins and cypresses were burned on the street. In the hospital rooms, essential oils were evaporated. However, the effect was not satisfactory.
In some monasteries, the knowledge of aromatherapy was used. To this day , see “Convent Woman Melissengeist” of the Carmelitenuns.
Then came Rene-Maurice Gattefosseb, the English bio-chemist Marguerite Maury and the founder of osmotherapy Prof. Paolo Rovesti. The scientific research of essential oils and aromatherapy did not begin until the 19th century. The father of modern “aromatherapy” is the French chemist and perfumer Rene-Maurice Gattefosse.
Rene-Maurice Gattefosse has given an ancient knowledge a name: AROMATHERAPY.
In 1936 he published physiological aesthetics and beauty products, also well-known and widely translated in professional circles. His last two works Aromatherapy and Essential Antiseptics (1937) influenced all later users of essential oils. This is the first time that the term aromatherapy has been coined.
Aromatherapy – massage: It is the most important method of aromatherapists in the field of alternative health care. Essential oils in combination with carrier – base oils. This field of application was significantly influenced by the bio-chemist Marguerite Maury. She studied the effect of aromas when applied to the skin. This requires knowledge of the anatomy and massage as well as the properties of the individual essential oils.
Marguerite Maury received awards in 1962 and 1967 for her research on essential oils. Her student, Micheline Arcier, expanded aromatherapy into a comprehensive health system.
Franz. Researchers demonstrated that an extract of thyme in a 5% solution kills typhoid bacteria and other germs in a short time.
Professionally or professionally, any form of medicine is only app. doctors. In Germany according to Section 1 Of the Heilpraktiker Gesetz also naturopaths . This also applies to healing methods such as aromatherapy.
It is a form of herbal medicine.
The use of fragrances in private households has long since become commonplace, although the word aromatherapy is rarely used. Cold baths, massage oils and scented lamps are examples of this. Eth. Oils. for the whirlpool: fragrances are added to the heated water. For example, essential oils, which can be absorbed particularly well during the bath due to the constant circulation.
First: By the sense of smell: (Our second largest organ):
After inhalation, essential oils can also have a direct effect on the organs. -Lavender oil, for example, has a calming effect. Thyme activating – although jasmine oil is highly sexually stimulating.
Second: Massages: (The skin of our largest organ):
During a massage, the body absorbs essential oil. Important
Third: no more than 2-3%Äth. Mix oil with base oil. Second: ask in case of uncertainty aromatherapist.
Sources: Wikipedia, Maria M. Kettenring (Essential Oils)
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