AromaTherapy-A powerful Healing treatment

Long distance travel may sound exciting, if only for those who are not actually doing the traveling. After all, travelers have something in common with those who are desk bound for hours- stress, from neck all the way down the back, which is where aromatherapy comes in. It’s the kind of thing that makes people say, it’s relaxing, takes away the stress of a long travel, and ‘it makes me feel pretty’.

Aromatherapy is a gentle and powerful healing treatment. It uses pure essential oils- found in different parts of plants- that positively affect our physical, emotional and mental health. These oils are made up of between 50 to 500 different chemicals that occur in nature. Certified aromatherapists usually advised a combination of massage and inhalation. For the former, a good quality carrier oil, lotion, cream or salve is used to deliver the essential oils to the areas where they are most required. For inhalation, a simmering pot, diffuser, hot tub, sauna or common cotton ball is used.

Essential oils enter our body through the skin or by smell. Molecules in the scent released by the oils are get into the blood stream either through the skin during a massage or by inhalation through the nose and lungs. To quit smoking or raise oestrogen levels in postmenopausal women for instance, medication is introduced into the body through the skin. With the help of a massage, essential oils take about half an hour to be absorbed. As for smell, its psychological changes have been well researched. Our sense of smell has, by reflex action an enormous change on the central nervous system.