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Feeling Under The Weather? Essential Oils Can Help

By: Isabelle Filippis

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Aromatherapy has been used for thousands of years. Even the earliest of humans knew that the smell of flowers made them happier than the smell of rotting meat.

Aromatherapy is a natural way to help out your body both physically and emotionally.

Essential oils are concentrated extracts removed from the roots, leaves, or blossoms of plants. I love the fact that it is the essence of the plant.

Essential oils arouse our influential sense of smell. The everyday odors that we smell have a major impact on our moods and emotions.

Our sense of smell has the potential to discern between 10,000 separate smells! That's why those air freshener commercials show a powerfully pleasant emotion with someone ignoring everything else but the smell and being lifted into a state of euphoria because, as exaggerated as it seems, that's essentially what smells can do to us.

Smells enter through the fine hairs lining the nose and move on to the limbic system, the part of the brain that controls our moods, emotions, memory and learning. This is why smells can have such a strong effect on us.

I know most people associate a specific past event or person in our life with a smell. Even if you've forgotten about the event or person for years and years, just one trace of a scent from that period of your life will trigger the memory and feeling of it very quickly.

Essential oils can also be massaged into the skin or even taken orally.

When taken orally any guidelines given should be followed.

Whether inhaled, absorbed, or ingested, essential oils are gaining attention as a natural treatment for infections, stress, and other health problems.

Almost every illness can be helped with essential oils. For example, a few drops of Lavender or Chamomile added to a warm bath can help relieve stress. Cedarwood or Lemon added to your cream or lotion can help with oily skin or you can add them to rosewater to use as a toner for your skin.

A common use is ginger or peppermint for nausea or stomach upset. You can massage a few drops into the abdomen or add a few drops to a warm bath or even use it as an inhalation.

Those are just a drop in the bucket of what essential oils can do for us. It is quite exciting to think about using these natural oils to help us with physical ailments and emotional issues instead of reaching for the nearest drug.

And one of the great things is that you can make your own oils, lotions, and balms at home.

Making essential oils at home help in relieving the symptoms of various types of mental and bodily disorders but to what extent it will help will depend on the quality of herbs used. So make sure you use organic herbs whenever you can, and also very high quality oils.

The benefit of making them at home is you know everything that's going in them plus it will cost less than having to purchase them. It eliminates any unwanted ingredients, or worse an unknown ingredient. Plus while you learn you get to share your new knowledge with all your friends and family and become an example of a natural therapy.

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