Whether it’s the tang of ozone in the air just before a rainstorm, the homey smell of freshly baked bread, or the inspiring scent of roses, natural aromas are everywhere with us, influencing our moods, and informing our perceptions. But natural aromas are capable of much more. Science is just beginning to reveal how aromas affect our bodies as well as our spirits, and what once seemed far-fetched–that you can treat many common ailments with nothing more than a pleasing smell–is now being taken seriously by many in the medical community. Yes, you can smell your way to good health, and now
Aromatherapy For Dummies shows you how.
This down-to-earth guide takes the mystery out of essential oils and other aromatherapy tools, and shows you how pleasing scents can cure what ails you and enhance your life at home and at work. Among other things, you’ll discover how to:
- Safely and easily treat hundreds of common ailments
- Increase f ocus and concentration
- Relieve tension and relax
- Improve athletic performance
- Enhance romance
- Sniff out the right essential oils
- Create fragrant essences in your kitchen
Under the expert guidance of one of America’s leading botanical experts, you’ll bring the wonders of aromatherapy into your own life. Kathy Keville provides clear, concise, scientifically informed explanations of how plant essences can support body, mind, and spirit. She offers common sense advice on everything from therapeutics and cosmetics to the recreational uses of essential oils. And she supplies:
- Easy-to-follow instructions on how to select genuine aromatherapy products
- Symptom Guide–simple and easy remedies for 60 common conditions, listed alphabetically by symptom
- Aroma Guide–an A-to-Z guide of fragrant plants used in aromatherapy
- More than a hundred recipes for everything from oily skin to indigestion that you can whip up at home in five minutes
The world is full of natural fragrances that can help you feel better, work smarter, play harder, and relax. It’s time to get well with the healing power of smell, and now Aromatherapy For Dummies shows you how. ....read more
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A reader's guide to creating exciting, inventive, and unique cosmetics and body-care products using all-natural ingredients and the power of aromatherapy. Includes an overview of aromatherapy, techniques used to extract aromatic plant materials, tips on creating unique and personal creams and lotions, and a full complement of inspirational recipes.
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January 26th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
A chemist and aromatherapy practitioner provides scientific proof for the effectiveness of using essential oils.
Aromatherapy is the fastest-growing segment of the body care industry, an effective and deeply pleasurable way to maintain well-being. Now, Kurt Schnaubelt, a chemist and longtime aromatherapy practitioner, provides scientific proof for the efficacy of essential oils, explained clearly and logically.
Advanced Aromatherapy draws on the most recent research to demonstrate how essential oils work on the cells and microbes of the body. These chemical changes affect emotional states as well as physical ones.
Advanced Aromatherapy explains how to treat symptoms ranging from hay fever to stress disorders with predictable results.
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January 24th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Going much further than many of the basic guides available today, this book has been written for those who wish to delve deeper into the world of aromatherapy. It contains everything you need to know about understanding and using essential oils.
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Aromatherapy offers countless uses, from cosmetics to therapeutics for balancing body, mind, and spirit. Drawing on 75 combined years of experience in botanical therapies, Keville and Green update their complete guide with the latest information for aromatherapy practitioners and students, providing an invaluable resource that includes more than 90 formulas for using essential oils in health and first aid, skin and hair care, massage, relaxation, and more.
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January 19th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Here is a complete guide to aromatherapy, a modern healing technique with ancient origins. Essential Aromatherapy organizes essential oils into handy alphabetical listings, providing their profiles, applications, and the physical and emotional conditions that warrant their use. Also included are detailed treatments for a variety of ailments, plus oil blends for many home and health uses. Dozens of helpful illustrations are included.
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January 17th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
This classic manual provides detailed evidence for the efficacy of plant medicine. Valnet effectively bridges the gap between the tradition of healing with herbs and the advances of modern medicine, showing, in scientific terms, why plant medicine works, and making an impassioned plea for curtailing our use of dangerous chemical therapies.
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January 16th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Essential oils are one of the world's great untapped resources. This complete volume explains how to incorporate these ancient medicines of the earth into everyday life for personal care, physical and mental health, and a safe home environment. It gives more than 500 recipes using essential oils as alternatives to often toxic human-made health, beauty, and cleaning products.
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January 15th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
The power of essential oils has been recognized for thousands of years. Today, the use of aromatherapy is growing rapidly as greater numbers of people experience the benefits and life-enhancing properties of these precious substances. Aromatic essences can have a direct effect on our health, reduce our stress levels, and enable us to have a better overall outlook on life, as well as improve our relationship with our natural environment. These raw materials are also an improtant ingredient in perfumes, fragrances, cosmetics, and skin and body care products, and are extensively used for flavoring foods and drinks. Carol Schiller and David Schiller, recognized experts in the field of aromatherapy, have created the most comprehensive reference guide on the market up-to-date. The Aromatherapy Encyclopedia: A Concise Guide to Over 385 Plant Oils includes information on the proper safety and handling of oils, extraction methods, practical everyday uses, documened propeties, and methods of use. Chapters detail ancient historical to present-day uses from around the world for carrier oils, essential oils, CO2 extracts, absolute oils, and infused oils. This guidebook also provides a convenient category listing of oil properties for quick access, and a useful resource of alphatbetically arranged botanical names that cross-reference the common name of each oil. The user-friendly format and writing style of the book can be of great value as an indispensable learning tool for a novice as well as a vital source of information for reseachers, formulators, practitioners, nurses, therapists, industry professional, wholesales and retailers.
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When essential oils are put in a lamp, inhaled, applied to the skin, placed in bathwater, or even taken orally, a person can feel relaxed, energized, or uplifted. In this beautifully illustrated book, a holistic practitioner describes the history and physiological basis of aromatherapy, tells how to extract and store the oils, and gives detailed information on 27 of the most important essential oils, including their dosages and beneficial effects.--LJ. 240 pages, 2-color throughout, 8 1/4 x 11.
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January 12th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Written in an accessible style and aimed at aromatherapists, practitioners of alternative medicine, and anyone wishing to use aromatherapy to maintain a peaceful equilibrium or bring about positive change, this book concentrates on the mood-changing effects of natural oils. A good addition to alternative medicine collections.--Library Journal.
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January 9th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Aromatherapy: An A–Z is one of the most comprehensive, up-to-date encyclopedias of aromatherapy available today, with over 400 entries covering more than 200 conditions and 82 essential oils as well as recipes and formulae.
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Magical Aromatherapy by Scott Cunningham combines the modern science of aromatherapy with the ancient science of magical perfumery. Together they make a powerful system that can improve your life and bring you what you want. Already, over 170,000 people have found out how useful this book can be. You can, too!
In these pages you'll discover how to use aromas from fresh and dried herbs and essential oils to make changes in your life. You can use them to bring you love, peace, protection, psychic awareness, happiness, joy, and more.
You'll discover that the dried seeds of celery can be used to enhance psychic awareness or bring restful sleep. The fresh flowers of gardenia can be used for peace, love, and spirituality. Honeysuckle can be used for weight loss and prosperity. This book includes full instructions on how to use these three and ninety-seven more aromatics!
If you do magical rituals, you'll also be thankful for information such as the ruling planet and element for each of the herbs. Also given are aromas of the seasons, lunar cycles, days of the week, and zodiacal signs. You'll also learn how to make, store, and use essential oils. Cunningham also includes addresses of essential oil distributors; fresh and dried plant distributors; and aromatherapy organizations and publications. There's even a glossary and a great annotated bibliography, as well as a history of magical perfumery.
Even if you've never done any magic in your life, you can use this book. For example, to attract love, visualize yourself freely giving and receiving it as you smell the crushed fruits of the caraway. You can repeat this several times a day, especially if you are worrying about your current relationship.
And if you've been doing rituals for a long time, you will find this book to be invaluable. The correspondences and information will allow you to use aromatics to enhance any of your rituals. This is truly a book anyone can use.
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January 7th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
This comprehensive guide to aromatherapy discusses the possible healing properties of scented, therapeutic oils. It shows how to use aromatherapy to alleviate specific ailments. The book is organized in cookbook style, with recipes for scents, soaks and baths and is tailored for moods and needs.
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January 4th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
* Revised and expanded edition of the aromatherapy bestseller. * Includes recipes for preparing your own oils, baths, perfumes, masks, compresses, and other remedies. * A resource section directs you to reputable suppliers.
Extracted from flowers and herbs, aromatic essential oils have been used for centuries to heal and beautify, offering a gentle yet effective alternative in the treatment of illness, stress, and imbalance. Maggie Tisserand brings a wealth of practical experience to this book, focusing on women and their particular health and beauty concerns. She shows how the unique properties of specific essences can be used to maintain healthy hair and skin, ease minor complaints, and assist in treating more serious health problems.
The author shares her techniques for enhancing general well-being and sensual satisfaction with massage. She also gives advice on how to use aromatherapy during pregnancy and childbirth, and includes a chapter on remedies for children's illnesses. Tisserand's knowledge of aromatherapy is both accessible and comprehensive, providing the reader with excellent guidance to the healing benefits of aromatic essences. ....read more
January 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Exact formulas for making hundreds of blends for skin and hair care, relief of stress and pre-menstrual syndrome, baby oils and powders, cellulite reduction, massage oils, and more. It's interesting to just page through the alphabetical section and learn the purported advantages of oils, from allspice (Pimenta officinalis) to ylang-ylang (Cananga odorata).--Booklist.
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January 1st, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Edwards shares 13 years of experience to create the most comprehensive aromatherapy guide available including profiles of essential oils, instructions for blending and using them, and information on careers in aromatherapy.
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December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
A rich resource on the applications of aromatherapy and its uses in everyday life, including aromas for the home, business environments, and essences for the elderly.
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December 21st, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
This reference shows how essential oils can help parents raise healthier, happier children. Chapters cover every age from newborn to teen with aromatherapy remedies for typical problems -- from diaper rash to asthma to self-esteem. The book features information for pregnant mothers and physically challenged children and appendices with reference charts, safety data, and supplier information.
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December 21st, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Illustrated throughout in full color, this indispensable reference work is a complete A-to-Z compendium of aromatics, with extensive information about the origins, properties, uses, and actions of 165 extensive herbs and essential oils. Over 600 photos & illustrations.
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December 19th, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
This complete, practical guide shows how to use the essential oils of flowers and herbs as a gentle yet effective method of natural healing. Beginning with the history and use of essential oils in cosmetics and perfumes from ancient Egyptian times to the present day, the author details 29 essences, with their properties and applications in more than 100 conditions, ranging from emotional stress to skin disorders.
Includes easy-to-prepare recipes for massage and medicinal oils, facial masks, ointments, and aromatic baths.
Explains the importance of essential oils in Swedish, shiatsu, and neuromuscular massage.
Provides tables of evaporation rates, odor intensity, therapeutic index, and glossary of medical terms.
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December 18th, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
The first aromatherapy guide to synthesize Eastern and Western approaches to restoring emotional and mental health.
* Explains the esoteric and energetic healing properties of 40 essential oils to help restore balance to the body and psyche.
* Provides help for a wide range of common emotional and mental complaints.
* Includes full-color illustrations to guide readers through the massage and acupressure sequences.
In this unique synthesis of Eastern and Western healing approaches, Gabriel Mojay combines the practice of aromatherapy with the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine. Mojay explains the esoteric and energetic healing properties of 40 essential oils and shows how they can be used to manipulate qi, the body's vital energy, to stimulate healing from negative emotional and mental states. Some forms of nervous tension, for example, are caused by stagnant qi energy, which can be released with essential oils.
Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit provides help for a wide range of common emotional and mental complaints--including depression, low energy, lack of concentration, poor memory, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Easy-to-reference charts and full-color illustrations teach simple aromatherapeutic massage and acupressure techniques that restore balance to the body and psyche. ....read more
December 18th, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Aromatherapy is the therapeutic use of essential oils and hydrosols extracted from plants, flowers, trees, seeds and fruit. Just as aromatherapy has become scientifically validated medical practice for people, it has become an increasingly popular health treatment for animals.
This book will fill a growing need for effective aromatherapy information and treatments that improve and maintain animal health, as well as prevent common ailments in dogs, cats, and other animals. This comprehensive guide will focus on safety and common uses of essential oils, application methods, recipes for various ailments, and in-depth information on the safest and simplest essential oils to use for everyday aromatic animal care.
Holistic Aromatherapy for Animals is a reliable and trustworthy holistic aromatherapy sourcebook for pet owners, aromatherapy lovers and all petcare-related professionals. It provides the soundest and safest advice, recipes and supported information available. Since no book of this magnitude and focus currently exists, it will be a widely used resource and will answer a growing demand for information about this exciting and aromatic topic. ....read more
December 15th, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Inside each bottle of essential oil lies the key to beauty, health, and wellbeing-and this comprehensive illustrated reference contains all the information needed to work aromatherapy's magic. It includes complete instructions for skin and body treatments; recipes for creams and lotions; remedies to overcome negative emotions; advice on psychic cleansing; and techniques to enhance meditation and massages of all kinds. There are first aid therapies to relieve simple ailments, and to use during pregnancy and with babies, children, and the elderly. A Directory of Essential Oils gives the properties and applications of 75 common and exotic oils.
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December 14th, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
A leading scientist shows readers how and why aromatherapy is emerging as a popular mind/body medicine. Contains an overview of aromatherapy, recent findings on the effect of essential oils on the immune system, and a description of common treatments. 10 charts. 10 tables.
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December 12th, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
