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Healing essential oil
Aromatherapy uses pure essential oils to relax,
balance and rejuvenate body, mind and spirit. Essential, absolute
and resin oils are volatile, fragrant materials extracted from the
root, bark, wood, seed, fruit, leaf or flower of a single plant.
Steam distillation and cold pressing are used
to extract the essential oil from the plant. Essential oils and
absolutes are very potent and should always be used sparingly and
in conjunction with a reliable reference.
Essential oils contain the odor, taste and medicinal
properties of the plant itself, but in very concentrated form, with
no base oil, alcohol, water or dilutants added.
Please bear in mind, however, that any herb's
essential oil is many times more potent than the whole herb itself.
Living and healing essential oil
Aromatherapy is both an art and a science. Aromatherapists,
armed with a technical understanding of an oil's constituents, artfully
blend essential oils to produce new aromas. The results of aromatherapy
are very individual. While there is general agreement about the
actions of certain oils, aromatherapy texts vary in their descriptions
of the properties and characteristics of an essential oil.
No two persons are affected by the same essential
oil in exactly the same way. Even the same person can be affected
differently by the same oil depending on surroundings, time of day
or mood.
Essential oils are the highly concentrated, volatile,
aromatic essences of plants. Scientists agree that essential oils
may perform more than one function in living plants. In some cases
they seem to be a part of the plant's immune system. In other cases
they may simply be end-products of metabolism.
Essential oils contain hundreds of organic constituents,
including hormones, vitamins and other natural elements that work
on many levels. They are 75 to 100 times more concentrated than
the oils in dried herbs.
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