I would really like to know more about aromatherapy. What is it, what are the benefits, what are some of the things that could be detrimental or harmful?Aromatherapy is something that has been used since way back, I would say 10,000 years. Our whole existence is based on aromas. If we disconnect our societal hang-ups and ourselves and went with just odors we would see how important it is in everything we do.Our olfactory system is the fastest next to thought that happens in our body. It is less than a millisecond that it registers. It registers on a level below conscious thought; we go into flight or fight even before we consciously recognize the odor.
Our body is already reacting because this is what kept us alive. There are some people on this planet that are as sensitive as dogs at hunting other people.There is a tribe in the Philippines that can literally hunt a man by his scent. I’ve seen it and I have done it, I have been hunted.It is scary because everybody is different and everybody has their own scent so does every animal and every plant.
So aromatherapy means treatment-using scents. It is a holistic practice dealing with the body using pleasant smelling botanical oils. Is it used for the treatment of any specific illness or is it merely maintenance.
No, it can be used for addressing certain illnesses of the body. You can use it for relieving pain or caring for your skin. Here's the thing, the biggest organ in your body is your skin.
Everything that touched your skin gets metabolized in your body. It feeds and causes specific endorphins to be produced and floods through the body and they will either stimulate, relax, cause digestion improvements, be a diuretic getting rid of headaches and so on, all of these things can be done with aromatherapy. They have even started in a cancer hospital back east where they have started treating the whole body holistically. They will use aromatherapy to offset problems with chemotherapy and cardiac patients.
How does it work with cancer patients? Offsets the toxic effects of the chemotherapy.
Here is the thing you need to understand, the synthetic oils that you find in some of the boutiques do not work because they are not from a plant. I went into the various things about relaxation, oils can reduce anxiety, and they can alleviate fatigue and affect moods. Someone who might be going through mood swings like with menopause. Aromatherapy is being used to help men and women invigorate getting over impotence because that is in men and women.It can be used now to help you in the offset of your effects that you still have from taking chemo.This can be used as a flush, remember that everything that has happened to you is interred in the cells.
So you still have a chemical membrane of everything that has happened to you and it can still be relieved. It is like peeling an onion.
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