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What is Aromatherapy?
Most of us experience, at some time in our lives, the need for simple physical or emotional rejuvenation that does not involve the doctor or other people.
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What is Yarrow - Achillea Millefolium Essential Oil?
Yarrow is a hedgerow bush found along many country lanes in Europe, Western Asia and North America. It has fern-like, feathery leaves with clusters of pink and white flowers and grows to about three feet.
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Aromatherapy in the First Aid Box
Over the past twenty years or more Aromatherapy has become a household name. Its popularity has increased so much that almost every College in every town has an Aromatherapy course and aromatherapy products are in every supermarket from oils and creams to hair shampoos.
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The Benefits of Using Essential Oils and Aromatherapy
There are many people today who will testify to having experienced some benefit to their Physical, Emotional or Mental Health as a result of using Essential Oils in a way that aromatherapy practitioners would advocate.
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The meaning of Aromatherapy and the chemistry of Essential Oils
The meaning of AromatherapyThe term aromatherapy has been in existence for a relatively short period of time in history. However, principles and practices lying behind the concept can be traced back to some of the ancient civilizations of mankind.
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What is Elemi Essential Oil?
Elemi (Canarium luzonicum) is a tropical tree native to the Phillipines. It has been known and used in the Middle East for thousands of years and became popular in Europe in the 15th century.
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TEA TREE OIL- A Remarkable Healing Agent
A clear to very pale golden colour essential oil that is favoured by many health specialists who work with alternative medicine and natural remedies, this is an oil with remarkable healing properties.
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Nut Allergies in Children – Are Massage Oils Safe?
IntroductionIn aromatherapy and massage practices, nut oils are favoured mediums. However, recent research findings that suggest it may be through skin exposure to nut proteins during infancy that nut sensitisation occurs, raises safety concerns for anyone using massage with babies and infants.
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How to Make Your Own Rose Hips
I was enjoying a long (very long) hike over the weekend that brought me in contact with a wide variety of plants and animals. While taking a breather at a ranger station, I was admiring a plant which had what looked to be cherry tomatoes or some kind of red berry sprouting from its branches.
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Two Essential Oils for Aches and Pains
One of the most popular of complementary and alternative therapies must be aromatherapy. There's something very appealing about using essential oils from plants to soothe illness and help calm you down or lift your mood.
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Natural Remedies for Depression
Over 10 million Americans suffer from depression each year. Affecting all segments of the population, depression creates a feeling of hopelessness.
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Women’s Natural Beauty: Essential Oils for Mature Skin Care
It's no surprise several of the world's finest formulas for beautifying mature skin contain natural essential oils. Therapeutic grade essential oils used in aromatherapy are each selected for their distinctive healing action; many oils are specifically indicated for skin healing and healthy skin maintenance.
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Are you Energy Conscious?
In today's busy world just diet and exercise is not enough for individuals who carry with them layer upon layer of consciousness that prevents them from tapping into their own inner source of healing.
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The Aromatherapy First Aid Kit
When you hear the word Aromatherapy what comes to mind? Most likely you think of sweet fragrances and relaxation but have you considered first aid? Most people make sure they have a first aid kit stocked with bandages, creams, gauzes, stitches in preparation for an unfortunate event.
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What are Essential Oils?
Essential oils are the pure and concentrated energies held within the plants cells. These aromatic cells are located in specific parts of the plants.
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Natural Medicine Courses
Natural medicine courses are offered in abundance! You can find these courses through colleges, evening classes, seminars, intensive work shops or you can complete a course on-line.
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How to Treat Asthma with Aromatherapy
Roughly 5% of the population lives with asthma. Asthma is a disease that is characterised by increased responsiveness of the trachea (windpipe) and bronchi (main airway) to some type of trigger (examples listed below).
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Using Essential Oils in Pregnancy and Childbirth
Aromatherapy is the therapeutic use of essential oils to restore balance to mind, body and spirit. Essential oils are natural essences extracted from a wide variety of plants.
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Last minute “Healthy” Christmas gifts
Just a few days to go until we celebrate the birth of the Christ child and we adorn our loved ones with gifts. Most likely you have been totally organized and prepared by doing your Christmas shopping months ahead of time.
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Allergies and Hydrolats
The term allergy is used to describe a response within the body to a substance which is not necessarily harmful in itself, but results in an immune response and a reaction that causes symptoms and disease in a predisposed person.
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Lavender an Evergreen and Fragrant Shrub Native to Southern Europe
This beautiful colored high scented shrub has been used for many centuries for its delicate perfume and its amazing medicinal properties.
Lavender is an essential oil, the flowers are steam-distilled in fields where they are grown and the oil varies in color from dark yellow to a dark yellow-green color.
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Natural Stress Busters
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Summer is the time for relaxation, recreation, vacation etc. all in an effort to relieve stress.
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Potency of essential oils
Copaiba Oil is an essential oil steam distilled from Brazil’s copaiba tree gun resin.
The Copaiba tree grows very tall reaching some hundred feet upwards, it produces a reddish fruit from its yellow flowers and can produce up to twelve gallons of oil per season.
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Seeking relief with Copaiba essential oil
Seeking a safe effective and low cost solution to any health issue can be a challenge. When we tire of OTC drugs (over the counter) with long disclaimers and a plethora of unwanted side effects we head to the local health food store or holistic apothecary shop to search for relief.
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Parsley Oil For Muscles, Hemorrhoids and Kidney Stones
Petroselinum Sativum commonly known as Parsley, has some proven qualities that can be used to help with certain ailments, such as soothing muscles, increasing sexual prowess and treating hemorrhoids, kidney and bladder stones.
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Essential Oils can help prevent you getting the Coronavirus
Firstly, taking extra care in personal hygiene and self sanitization is the best way to prevent infection and to avoid exposure to this virus.
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6 Ways to Help Decrease Your Stress
We live in a stressful world, and at one point or another, you’ve probably felt like your stress is overwhelming. Where some stress can be beneficial (like helping you deal with urgent or life-threatening situations), too much stress can be unhealthy and have lasting effects on your physical and mental health.
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What is ? |
Aromatherapy?
Aromatherapy, like other natural and alternative therapies is an ancient practice. If you break the word Aromatherapy up it is basically aroma and therapy.
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What is a virus?
Viral Illness and AromatherapyWhat is a virus? What is a viral illness? How is a viral illness treated? How are essential oils in the treatment of viral conditions?These four questions set the agenda for this brief paper.
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What is Aromaflex
Aromaflex is a combination of Aromatherapy and Reflexology. Both individual therapies are said to work on the mind, body and spirit and are thought to act synergistically to create an enhanced experience for the client.
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Uses and Benefits of Palo Santo Bursera Graveolens Essential Oil
Uses and Benefits of Palo Santo Bursera Graveolens Essential Oil
Currently, the Palo Santo Bursera Graveolens tree has become one of the most popular aromatic trees worldwide due to the many healing properties, it possesses.
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News Articles |
Swine flu
Swine flu is a threat to an increasing number of people. It is best to be prepared for any threat like this in advance. The use of essential oils can strengthen the preventative measures issued by the WHO (World Health Organisation) of:Wash you hands properly.
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Healing Iris inspiration for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
This year the world renowned Royal Horticultural Society at Chelsea, London has drawn inspiration from the Iris and they have used this beautiful flower as the emblem representing the ethos of this year’s show.
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9500 Palo Santo trees are planted in Ecuador
Caring for, protecting and restoring the tropical dry forests of Manabí, is one of the objectives of EcuadorianHands, an Ecuadorian company that has been implementing reforestation in tropical dry forests for about 10 years, taking as main species the tree of Palo Santo (Bursera graveolens) a native and dominant species of these forests.
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