AROMATHERAPY is one of the most ancient healing methods, and is the science of utilising aromatic essences extracted from plants for health and healing purpose. The natural essences are used to balance and harmonise the energies within us,promoting the health of our body, mind and spirit. Aromatherapy become very popular nowsaday, because it is very simple, fun and therapeutically beneficial.

There are a lot of ways which we can practice in using essential oils. Here are a few ways for you to get started. These methods are intended as guidelines only, and you do need to pay special attention to all safety and precautions when applying essential oils.

Easy Inhalation
This is the most simple way to use essential oils. Simply choose the essential oils of your favarate, place 3~4 drops on a tissue or cotton ball. Place it under your pillow or at the room’s coners. If you worry about sensitivity or reaction to the oils, start practice with single drop.

Steam Inhalation
Add two drops of essential oil to a bowl of steaming water. Covering your head and bowl of water with a towel, inhale the healing vapours.Steam inhalation can help with colds and influenza. Use of energizing or relaxing oils can also make this method useful any time of day or night.

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The rigor of modern life style, in which most of the people live a busy life, sleeps too little, works too much,  eats not in time and poorly. All this factors depleting our energy. AROMATHERAPY is one of the most ancient healing methods, and is the science of utilising aromatic essences extracted from plants for health and healing. The natural essences are used to balance and harmonise the energies that operate within us, and promote the health of the body, mind and spirit.

Because the resources (mostly flowers, herbs, seeds and spices) are readily available, aromatherapy has been practised for thousands of years. However, very little scientific study has been done until recently. So even though the data available does not yet allow aromatherapy to be adopted into mainstream medical practice, which demands evidence-based claims, the available scientific information on the essences, or essential oils as they are known, may surprise you.

What is Aromatherapy?

You may think of aromatherapy as just the newest candle-selling trick, but this method has actually been around for centuries. Aromatherapy is a holistic healing method that combines the science of essential oils with the art of listening to the body, and applying the appropriate essences to re-harmonise the imbalances.It helps improving health and emotions using the pure essense extracted from flowers, seeds, shrubs or other parts of the plant. These essense are know as the essential oils. This essential oils are highly volatile liquid that they need to be stored in special container.The potent chemicals in these essential oils are responsible for their therapeutic powers. The particles of evaporated oil can be breathed in using spray or diffuser method and absorbed into the bloodstream. Essential oils can also enter the body through the skin merely by applying them as massage oil, incorporated into soaps, body care item. Some oils are effective in healing cuts and bruises, while others have an affinity for respiratory or digestive conditions, and still others alter psychological states. Such oils can give you a boost of energy if you know how to use them. They even can be use as insect repellents.

Essential Oils for Energy

As a rule, essential oils with spicy or citrus scents are the most popular in combating overtiredness. There are two reasons to explain this. One is that such smells just make you feel fresh and perky. Consider for example how the fresh scent of oranges in the morning helps you wake up. The other reason is that these oils contain similar chemicals, all of which stimulate the nerves and emotions. If you are having trouble concentrating after long hours of work or studying, lime oil is an excellent energizer. It refreshes the mind and helps with focus. It blends well with basil, which helps stimulate both the brain and body. The spicy scent of ginger has an invigorating effect on the nerves, so it can be especially beneficial if you are short on sleep. Try combining it with grapefruit, an oil known for its reviving capabilities.

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Only nature can produce whole essential oils. Essential oils are tiny droplets contained in glands, glandular hairs, sacs, or veins of different plant parts, like leaves, bark, flowers, stem, roots and fruits. They are the “essence” of the particular plant that giving the plants its unique scent.

There are three principal methods of extracting essential oils from aromatic plants. These are: distillation process; expression process; extraction using volatile solvents; and enfleurage process.

Distillation Process
Distillation process or steam distillation is the most common process method for obtaining essential oils from a plant. The process involve heating and the steam is force into a vat of plant material, where it breaks open and reptures these glands releasing the precious oils, vapor is formed, then cooling the vapor until it becomes liquid. This is when the essential oils are collected.

Distillation is an economical and popular method used in essential oils extraction. However , it still may take hundreds, or even thousands pound of plant parts to distill a single pound of the essential oils. That’s why, some essential oils will vary greatly in their cost.

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Patchouli, this fragrant herb, with soft, opposite, egg-shaped leaves and square stems, grows from 2 to 3 feet in height, giving out the peculiar, characteristic aroma of patchouli when rubbed. Its whitish flowers, tinged with purple, grow in both axillary and terminal spikes. The crop is cut two or three times a year, the leaves being dried and packed in bales and exported for distillation of the oil. The best oil is freshly distilled near the plantations. It is popular in production of perfume and soap, and it is widely-used both in Asia and India.

Essential Oil of Patchouli is thick, the colour being brownish-yellow tinted green. It contains coerulein, the vivid blue compound found in matricaria, wormwood and other oils. It deposits a solid, or stearoptene, patchouli alcohol, leaving cadinene. Its use is said to cause sometimes loss of appetite and sleep and nervous attacks. The Chinese, Japanese and Arabs believe it to possess prophylactic properties.

Botanical name: Pogostemon patchouli, Pogostemon cablin

Plant origin: Shrub

Extraction Method: Distillation

Aroma: Pungent, earthy

Odor Intensity: Medium

Evaporation: Base note

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Neroli oil is a plant oil similar in scent to bergamot produced from the blossom of the bitter orange tree.

Neroli has a refreshing and distinctive, spicy aroma with sweet and flowery notes. It is one of the most widely used floral oils in perfume industry. It is a non-toxic, non-irritant, non-sensitizing, non-photo-toxic substance. More than 12% of all modern quality perfumes use Neroli as their principal ingredient and it is most of the synthetic components available on the market.

As an essential oil, used in aromatherapy and aromatherapy massage, Neroli is considered to have a soothing effect on the nervous system.Traditionally, neroli oil was used not only to relieve tension, it increase blood circulation too. A solution is made by adding three or four drops of the essential oil to one cup of either sweet almond or wheat germ oil. The oil is then fixed by adding grapefruit seed extract, but if the solution is to be used on children or pregnant women, only half the quantity of essential oil should be used.

Botanical name: Citrus aurantium

Plant origin: Flowers

Extraction method: distillation/ solvent extraction

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