What is Professional Aromatherapy?
Professional Aromatherapy
is the systematic use of essential oils in natural holistic treatments that
seek to improve physical and emotional well-being. Fundamental principles of
such treatments are non-violence, therapeutic touch, listening, the use of
organic natural plant materials, the importance of self care. While evidence based aromatherapy treatments do
have regard to the fact that what is visible and measurable is only a part of
what we can perceive. Chief among the
materials of aromatherapy are essential oils extracted from plants. Essential oils are scientifically proven to
possess important therapeutic properties, which may be utilised to improve
health and prevent disease. Indeed the clue is in the name:
Essential n. something of importance.
For nurses and midwives
interested in the clinical uses of
essential oils for their patients needs Shirley Price’s Aromatherapy for Health
Professionals is available in a new 2011 edition. If you are ill you should see your
doctor. Aromatherapy treatments rarely
are a cure by themselves though they can be effective in the treatment of
common ailments and in particular of the anxiety, stress and depression which often
accompany undiagnosed symptoms.
Essentia
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