aromatherapy can promotes good health ?
February 4, 2011 by Aroma Focus
Filed under aromatherapy diffuser
There are some company that sells aromatherapy products (with diffuser) through direct selling. The claim is the product can helps promote good health if used on daily basis. e.g with certain kind of oil it prevents flu, high blood pressure, increase oxygen inside a room, etc. Has anyone tried and tested this kind of things? Is there any proven result? This thing is also expensive. (Especially the diffuser that looks like a perfume bottle …)
Aromatherapy can indeed improve health and the feeling of well being.
Eucalyptus oil for instance is great when you have the cold and a stuffy nose and cough,lavendar oil is wonderfully calming and can relax you and help you get a good nights sleep.
Some of the citrus blend oils are good for starting your day..as they energize you.
The oils last a really long time as it only takes a lil bit…and the benefits make it worth every penny of the cost.
I don’t know as I can answer you perfectly but I’ll tell you about my experience with aromatheropy. I complained to an Asian friend of mine about having bad menstral pain. She consulted another Asian naturalpathic physician for me. He gave me a little bottle of oil that smells like perfume; then told me to rub a drop on my lower back when in pain. I politely said thanks while laughing him off in the back of my head. Go figure, the stuff really works!! 20 minutes flat after rubbing a drop on my back and all my cramps just disappear! I did make an effort to find out what ‘n the heck it was though. Turns out to be an oily concoction made of various pressed flowerbuds. In your case, sounds fishy just like mine did. Why not ask them for a trial period in which you can use it. If it’s that expensive, I wouldn’t advise buying it. In my case, I got to use the stuff first which helped me to believe it.^^
I HAVE tested aromatherapy claims scientifically and while even mainstream medicine can’t dispute the psychological benefits of surrounding yourself with scents you find pleasant, the healing claims just don’t hold up.
Even among those of us who work exclusively in natural medicine, aromatherapy isn’t taken very seriously and some of the myths surrounding essential oils are absolutely stupid. For instance, how in the world can SMELLING rosemary oil cause an abortion while EATING rosemary (as with rosemary chicken) be considered perfectly safe???
I am a massage therapist working in a hot mineral spa and I use aromatherapy almost daily. The health claims you’ve been reading about are pretty far fetched. The chemicals that make up aromas attach to receptors in our noses and cause responses in the various areas in our brain. Aromas affect our emotions/moods mostly, which can SOMETIMES affect your health.
Rubbing essential oils on your skin for absorption is not aromatherapy. For it to be aromatherapy the plant essences have to enter your nose. They can change your moods, bring back memories of good or bad times and places and that sort of thing, but any “health” benefits you get are from your body’s response to the mood changes, not to local affects of the oil on your skin.
Some essential oils do have other theraputic effects, such as rubbing peppermint on sore, tired feet to make them feel better…but that isn’t aromatherapy.