Herbal aromatherapy is made from the essential oils. The essential oils are concentrated extracts from the herbs. There are many different properties among the essential oils that will support your body healing itself.

When to use herbal aromatherapy
The essential oils are not only used as inhalants, they are also used:

• with massage
• as aroma in the room
• as air refresher
• as ingestion (be careful when ingested)
• in diet and food
• in perfumes and cosmetics
  

Main properties for essential oils
Some main properties for the herbal aromatherapy essential oils:

• Balancing body and mind
• Activates healing of body
• Stimulates the blood flow
• Stimulates the lymph system and therefore good for cleansing the body
• Makes muscles relaxed
• Refreshing and calming
  

Note! Use the essential oils very carefully. Do not use concentrated. Protect eyes and mucous membranes. Keep out of children.

History of herbal aromatherapy
Essential oils have been used for over 5000 years as spiritual, healing and therapeutic purposes, and also as drugs. The ancient Chinese, Indians, Greeks, Romans and Egyptians have used herbal aromatherapy as part of natural remedies.

Rene-Maurice Gattefosse coined the term aromatherapie 1928. He was focused on the aromatic use of the essential oils. But after an accident when he burned his arm he took the closest available liquid that happened to consist of lavender. The burn healed quickly without any scar. Rene-Maurice wrote the book Gattefosse's Aromatherapie that is still in print and is available in English.

Chemical medicine is not health in long-term
When it was discovered how to separate the constituents of the essential oils it was possible to use them alone and create synthetic chemicals. With this technique it was more profitable creating medicine. This caused a decrease with the use of the herbal aromatherapy essential oils and we have got the result with more health problems.

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