Essential Oils – Natural Help For Ailments

Aromatherapy has been used for thousands of years. Even the earliest of humans would have known that the smell of flowers made them happier than the smell of that guy who never bathes.

Aromatherapy is a alternative and natural way to help out your body both physically and emotionally.

Essential oils are concentrated extracts taken from the roots, leaves, or blossoms of plants. I love the fact that it is the essence of the plant.

Essential oils arouse our powerful sense of smell. The everyday odors that we smell have a major impact on our moods and emotions.

Our sense of smell has the talent to discern between 10,000 different smells! That’s why those air freshener ads show a extremely happy emotion where the person ignoring everything else but the smell and being lifted into a state of joy because, as exaggerated as it seems, that’s in essence what our sense of smell can do to us.

Smells come in through the fine hairs lining the nose and move on to the limbic system, the part of the brain that controls our moods, emotions, memory and learning. This is why smells can have such a powerful effect on us.

I know most people link together a specific past event or person in our life with a smell. Even if it’s from thirty years ago, just one trace of a smell from that period of your life will recreate the memory and feeling associated with it very quickly.

Essential oils can also be massaged into the skin or even taken by mouth.

When taken orally any guidelines given should be followed.

Whether inhaled, absorbed, or ingested, essential oils are acquiring attention as a natural way of healing infections, stress, and other health problems.

Almost every illness can be helped with essential oils. For example, a few drops of Lavender or Chamomile added to a nice bath can help relieve tension. Cedarwood or Lemon added to your cream or lotion can help with oily skin or you can add them to rosewater to use as a toner for your skin.

A common use is ginger or peppermint for nausea or stomach upset. You can massage a few drops into the abdomen or add a few drops to a warm bath or even use it as an inhalation.

Those are just a drop in the bucket of what essential oils can help us with. It is quite exciting to think about using these natural oils to help us with physical ailments and emotional issues instead of going out and buying the latest drug.

And the best part is that you can make your own oils, lotions, and balms at home.

Making essential oils at home help in relieving the symptoms of various types of mental and physical disorders but the effectiveness of any homemade essential oil will depend on the quality of herbs used. So make sure you use organic herbs whenever you can, and also very high quality oils.

The benefit of making them at home is you know exactly what’s going in them as well as it ends up costing less than going out and buying them. It assures you that no unwanted ingredients go in, or worse an unknown ingredient. Plus while you learn you get to share your new knowledge with all your friends and family and become an example of a natural therapy.

Want to learn more about essential oils and aromatherapy? Check out the Aromatherapy Course

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