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Essential Oil Therapy

Use of a plant’s aroma-producing oils (essential oils) to treat disease. Essential oils are taken from a plant's flowers, leaves, stalks, bark, rind, or roots. The oils are mixed with another substance (such as oil, alcohol, or lotion) and then put on the skin, sprayed in the air, or inhaled. You can also massage the oils into the skin or pour them into bath water. Aromatherapy as used today originated in Europe and has been practiced there since the early 1900s.

 

Practitioners of essential oil therapy believe that fragrances in the oils stimulate nerves in the nose. Those nerves send impulses to the part of the brain that controls memory and emotion. Depending on the type of oil, the result on the body may be calming or stimulating, and has been used to treat a wide range of physical and mental conditions, including, burns, infections, depression, insomnia, and high blood pressure.

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Uploaded on December 31, 2009
Taken on December 29, 2009