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Herbal Oils

AROMATHERAPY

What is Aromatherapy?

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Aromatherapy is a holistic treatment that uses natural plant extracts to promote health and well-being.

Its is also known as Essential Oil therapy.

Essential oils are the volatile, aromatic, non-water soluble liquids obtained by steam, or other forms of distillation of botanicals.

Different parts of the plants can be used to obtain essential oils, including the flowers, leaves, seeds, roots, stems, bark, wood, etc.

Homemade Remedies

HISTORY

The Beginning and end of medicinal drugs stems from  natural plants.

Humans have used herbs, roots, juices from the beginning of history, for healing cosmetics and spiritual applications.

  • 3000 BC-Egyptians, enfleurage.

  • 2700 BC- Chineseherbal remedies.

  • 2000 BC- Ayurveda/Indian medicine

  • Bible

  • 500 BC - Greek

  • 78 AD - Dioscorides

  • Hippocrates

  • Roman- Galen (131-200 AD)

  • 800 AD -Arabs

  • 500-1300 AD Middle Ages

  • Alchemists

  • 14th century - Black Death

  • 15th century- Renaissance

  • 16th-18th century-  production of essential oils was widespread 

  • 19th century- Rene Maurice Gattefossé coined the term 'Aromathérapie'.

  • Dr Jean Valnet.

  • Marguerite Maury- developed a form of massage that involved essential oils.

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