Introduction to Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is an non-invasive alternative health methodology founded on a holistic approach to dealing with health problems and complaints. It is a completely natural treatment that treats the person as a whole rather than treating a disease or illness in isolation.

Generally, Western medicine tends to isolate the patient's health concerns and treat them alone. Whereas Eastern medicine, which of course is only considered alternative medicine in the West, tends to use a more holistic approach. That is, practitioners view the body as an integrated system so that when there is a medical problem in one area, one can determine the best way to return to proper whole-body function.

Aromatherapy combines both science and art by utilizing natural aromatic plant extracts to promote mind, body, and spiritual health. Essential essences and essential oils used in aromatherapy seek to rebalance and harmonize the body while enhancing the body's own healing process so to promote the body's self-regulating, maintenance, and healing capabilities. Aromatherapy also seeks to bring relief to sufferers on emotional as well as physical levels.

Aromatherapy has provided relief and beneficial results for a wide variety of conditions. These include treatment of skin-care complaints such as acne, dermatitis, eczema, cellulite, psoriasis, varicose veins, stretch marks, and others. Aromatherapy can also provide emotional benefits to combat irritability, depression, panic attacks, insomnia, difficulty with concentration, and moodiness. Further, aromatherapy has been utilized successfully to treat bruises, burns, asthma, sprains and strains, bronchitis, skin inflammation, flu, muscular aches and pains, and digestive problems.

Aromatherapy uses essential oils and essences to promote health. If one is seeking aromatherapy treatments, it is essential that one deals with a qualified aromatherapy practitioner because using essential oils requires knowledge of a precise science. Furthermore, if used incorrectly, essential oils can do more harm than good. They tend to be highly concentrated extracts which are harvested by distilling a variety of plant materials including leaves, flowers, wood, fruit peel, and grasses.

An essential oil can be distilled a number of ways, most often by either using steam or water or by mechanically processing it, such as with citrus rinds, or by dry distillation of natural materials. After the distillation process, the essential oil is then physically separated from the water. Surprisingly, essential oils generally do not feel greasy and many of them do not leave any kind of oily residue. These oils penetrate the skin easily and are absorbed into the bloodstream where they will in turn be absorbed at different rates by different organs throughout the body.

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