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The word Aromatherapy means ‘treatment using scents’. It refers to the use of essential oils in (W) Holistic Healing to improve health and emotional well being and thus restoring balance to the body. Essential oils are aromatic essences extracted from plants, flowers, trees, fruit, bark, grasses and seeds. There are more than 150 types of oil that can be extracted. These oils have distinctive therapeutic, psychological and physiological properties that improve health and prevent illness. All essential oils have unique healing property and valuable antiseptic properties.
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However, some oils are anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving, anti-depressant, stimulating, relaxing, expectorating, supporting digestion and having diuretic properties too.
Essential oils are the little keys that can unlock our physical and mental mechanisms. They are absorbed into our body and exert an influence on it. They can also affect our mind and emotions and are dispersed from the body leaving no toxic residue. They enter the body in three ways by inhalation, absorption and consumption. |
