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Beginning Aromatherapy: Making Use Of The Amazing Lemon Essential Oil

By: Caroline Ashton

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Perhaps you're a user of essential oils, and you really appreciate their incredible array of fantastic health effects. You know that Lavender can help you relax, and Frankincense has impressive immune-system boosting activity. Or maybe you've never used an essential oil at all, and are wondering where to get started? Either way, Lemon oil is practically a requirement for every burgeoning aromatherapy practitioner. Often overlooked by the aromatherapy enthusiast, yet readily available and reasonably-priced, Lemon has a host of uses, some of which are completely unexpected in their profound results for our health.
Many people are introduced to Lemon essential oil by someone suggesting putting a few drops in their water throughout the day. It may be to simply make tap water taste better, make the water "cleaner", or a suggestion to enhance detoxification and even weight loss. Well, the reality is that Lemon will do all these things! While there's a pervading miss-perception that essential oils should not be ingested, it's clear that this is actually an oil directly from a food we might eat every day (ok, so we don't eat the peels, but no one ever said they would kill you!)
The essential oil in water is known to kill certain dangerous bacteria, including diphtheria and tuberculosis. And if that's not enough to get you to add a little to your water, how's it sound that it will also aid in the cleansing of your liver and lymph system? Further, lemon is considered to help release the cellular clogging resulting in cellulite. For all these purposes, just add lemon oil to taste to your water. You can add it to your bottle of water at the beginning of the day and take it with you everywhere you go. Do not, if you can avoid it, do this with a plastic bottle however, as the essential oil may decompose some plastics. Looking for a more precise dosage? Try five drops per cup; this is a great way to start your day, when our organ systems are ready for detoxification.
Lemon has a gentle yet effective antiseptic action, yet this effect for the skin is outweighed by the way it will make the skin more sensitive to UV light. It's ok to use it on areas that will not be exposed to direct sunlight for the following forty-eight hours. The oil is noted in many aromatherapy texts for wart removal -- here, because the areas affected are so small, there's little chance of danger. Just use one drop on the wart, a few times per day. The best cleaning application for Lemon is not the skin, however -- it's actually the oil that's most used in natural, home made cleaning recipes. A wonderful all-purpose cleaner can be made by mixing two cups each of pure water and white vinegar, then adding twenty to thirty drops of essential oil. Use this on every kitchen surface, and even your windows -- you'll have a clean fresh scent in the house like never before.
How about a great mood lifter? Lemon oil is a perfect choice -- being the oil that is considered the highest note, the brightness has a direct brightening on our moods. It's really the perfect choice for those mid-afternoon doldrums, where our minds and bodies really seem to get stuck in slow gear. This is the time to break out the diffuser and get a little lemon oil going! Its ability to lighten up has been backed-up by scientists noting its stress reducing and anxiety relieving action by working with our dopamine and serotonin systems.
Lemon essential oil is one of the few oils that has also been researched for actually improving our ability to think clearly. It has been tested to reverse the decline of our mental faculties. Further, it's also been tested to help us do our work more precisely, with diffusion of the oil in a workplace environment making a significant reduction in the amount of errors made. Lemon essential oil does this by keeping certain key neurotransmitters in circulation longer than normal -- neurotransmitters that are directly related with information processing. Time for studying? Inhale a little lemon! Getting on the computer to work on spreadsheets? Try a pick-me-up with the bright, tart scent.
So there you have it, some great reasons Lemon essential oil has real potential for benefit for our health. While its not nearly as exotic as Ethiopian Myrrh or Ecuadorian Hibiscus Seed, it has just as many fancy effects on our mind and body. For the long-time aromatherapy practitioner, Lemon is a great addition to oils you might already use, and for the beginner, its an absolutely wonderful place to start.

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The author is a natural health professional utilizing pure essential oils and therapeutic blends found at www.anandaapothecary.com.

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