RECOVERY
Aromatherapy
Aroma means scent, and therapy means treatment (scent treatment). Therefore, it is the use of the fragrant parts of different types of plants (with a scent) to improve your health and well being.
The first major benefit of aromatherapy is that it most often causes personal enjoyment from people. Taking a whiff of a bouquet of flowers or a spice is one of the most common types of Aromatherapy. Some of the main benefits of aromatherapy include reducing stress, getting rid of a depression, allow for a good night's sleep, and giving one more energy (myth: sooths the soul).
Aromatherapy is already being used commonly in the office environment to help workers stay on task and in hospitals to help patients stay relaxed (laughing gas is a form of aromatherapy).
Aromatherapy is believed to have begun with the burning of woods scents, leaves, needles, and tree gums. The word, perfume, is derived from the Latin per fumum, which means "through smoke”. Sometime between 7000 and 4000 B.C.E., Neolithic tribes learned that animal fats, when heated, absorbed plant's aromatic and healing properties. Fragrant leaves or flowers accidentally dropped into fat as meat cooked over the fire. This accident led to many different discoveries. Such plants added flavor to food, helped heal wounds, and smoothed dry skin far better than non scented fat. These fragrant fats -- the forerunners of our modern massage and body lotions -- scented the wearer, protected skin and hair from weather and insects, and relaxed aching muscles. They also affected people's energies and emotions. Aromatherapy is widely accepted by orthodox and complementary practitioners as one of the most comprehensive of the natural therapies.
The first major benefit of aromatherapy is that it most often causes personal enjoyment from people. Taking a whiff of a bouquet of flowers or a spice is one of the most common types of Aromatherapy. Some of the main benefits of aromatherapy include reducing stress, getting rid of a depression, allow for a good night's sleep, and giving one more energy (myth: sooths the soul).
Aromatherapy is already being used commonly in the office environment to help workers stay on task and in hospitals to help patients stay relaxed (laughing gas is a form of aromatherapy).
Aromatherapy is believed to have begun with the burning of woods scents, leaves, needles, and tree gums. The word, perfume, is derived from the Latin per fumum, which means "through smoke”. Sometime between 7000 and 4000 B.C.E., Neolithic tribes learned that animal fats, when heated, absorbed plant's aromatic and healing properties. Fragrant leaves or flowers accidentally dropped into fat as meat cooked over the fire. This accident led to many different discoveries. Such plants added flavor to food, helped heal wounds, and smoothed dry skin far better than non scented fat. These fragrant fats -- the forerunners of our modern massage and body lotions -- scented the wearer, protected skin and hair from weather and insects, and relaxed aching muscles. They also affected people's energies and emotions. Aromatherapy is widely accepted by orthodox and complementary practitioners as one of the most comprehensive of the natural therapies.
