Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy is one of the oldest therapies known. From Cleopatra to the First World War, it has been widely used for healing.
Using the aroma of herbs, flowers and plants the common salon medium is massage. Aromatherapy is widely used for helping people with such ailments as arthritis, insomnia and allergy related problems such as asthma, hay fever and eczema, and is especially helpful in cases of stress related problems.
Your consultation is particularly relevant when it comes to this treatment as your therapist will need to mix an oil specifically for you. This blend of oils will also need to suit your personality. This really is a totally holistic treatment, bringing body and mind into harmony, inducing a wonderful feeling of well being and calmness. You can maintain this feeling with a wide range of complimentary products available from your Therapist. Whether used as help for a particular problem or just as relaxation, it is a wonderful treatment.
This does not replace any medical treatment but it certainly does compliment it. I personally will never be without Lavender oil as I have two small children and find a brilliant "first aid answer to all". I believe that Aromatherapy is one of the most relaxing experiences that I know of.
Back to nature is a well know phrase of the day but what does it mean? To me it means using the natural resources around us to promote our well being and encourage good health.
Earth was created as a self sufficient planet for every problem there was a solution and for every ailment a cure. Look around are all these plants herbs grasses and trees on this earth just for their aesthetic value, I think not. Moving back in centuries a wise or knowledgeable man was not one with a university degree and a heap of facts at his finger tips but one with understanding of the natural resources around us the ability and intuition to use them wisely. His laboratory was a field and the wonders it held. This great man would be a doctor pharmacist and herbalist his title HEALER. These are the foundations of aromatherapy as we know it today. It would also seem that modern day pharmacologists are looking in the same direction, they to seem to be realising that we have gone far enough in one direction and now it is time to look to our history to create our future. There was a point in time when we would have known instinctively what cure we needed by appearance and smell but over time our senses have been dulled.
The first I ever heard about aromatherapy was probably the same as a lot of other children, and that was the three wise men bringing frankincense and myrrh to the baby Jesus. Little did I know at the time how I was to become involved with what at the time were just strange words.
Aromatherapy however goes way back before the wise men of the East. Neolithic man was very aware of how the plants and herbs around him would affect his health well being and state of mind. Perhaps by throwing logs on a fire to cook food he realised how some foods tasted better with certain logs while with others his frame of mind altered.
Egyptians Chinese Greeks Vikings and Romans all those we think of as great civilisations, conquerors and heroes were all very aware of the tremendous resources which surrounded them, using herbs, flowers and parts of trees in food, drinks, poultices, ointments, balms oils and of course perfumes.