Aromatherapy Treatments
Treatment aromoterapieyAromaterapiya – a section of alternative medicine based on the impact of odors on the person. Smell plays a very important role in human life, is one way of perceiving the world, as well as a great opportunity to influence certain areas of the brain. For centuries, people use pure essential oils derived from rasteniy.Schitaetsya that the process of distillation of essential oils was first discovered in the Arab world about a thousand years ago.
Now that the subject of numerous studies. Their results are widely used in various fields – from cosmetics to medicine, where essential oils are used as powerful tools anticontagious.
Aromatherapy treatment: to date more than 2000 uses essential oils to treat and prevent many ailments.
Essential oils are highly concentrated substances. For example, for the production of only 5 ml (1 teaspoon) of pure rose oil may require 5000 roses! For this reason it is recommended to treat them very carefully and use them sparingly. In high doses, many essential oils are irritant to the skin, and some of them with incorrect handling may even be poisonous. Since the effect of essential oils of aromatherapy treatment on our mood and emotional state is mainly through their effects on the olfactory organs, it is important not to use a specific oil for too long, otherwise there will be addictive and the effects of treatment will decrease. With daily use you should not use the same oil over 10 days.
In the treatment of aromatherapy should not breathe and not to confuse a lot of different oils at the same time – this in the olfactory center in the brain of confusion, and a surplus of essential oils can cause headache and nausea.
In the treatment of aromatherapy mix only three or, at most, four oil, and may be better to confine the two. The most common method of using essential oils for self-treatment is to add them in the bath. Drip 6 drops of oil on the surface of the water in the bath just before diving into it. Drops immediately formed on the entire surface a thin film, which sticks to the skin and partially absorbed by it in warm water.
If you are using aromatherapy in the treatment of these oils in large quantities can cause itchy skin – such as peppermint oil, add-in bath only 3-4 drops, but so soft and, generally speaking, completely innocent of the oil as lavender, you can take 10 drops in a bath.
For compresses add no more than 5 drops to a small bowl of hot or cold water. Another important method of application of essential oils is their breeding in a mostly vegetable oil and applied to the skin during a massage.
At home use the concentration of diluted essential oil should not exceed 1 percent. Since the bottles, which sell essential oils, usually equipped with droppers, then this concentration you will get, adding no more than 20 drops per 100 ml of base oil.
Different cultures throughout history have preferred different vegetable oils for massage, mainly depending on what oils were available in the area. Probably the most universal is the almond oil: it is well absorbed into the skin and also strengthens it. Other suitable oils include essential oil from grape seed, sunflower and safflower oils; the most tender is coconut oil, but at low temperatures it solidifies.