Aromatherapy for health professionals /
Price, Shirley.
Price, Len.
Philadelphia, PA : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 510-520) and index.
The genesis of essential oils -- Chemistry of essential oils -- Quality and safety -- Power and hazards -- Traditional use, modern research -- How essential oils enter the body -- Hydrolats : the essential waters -- Touch and massage -- Aromas, mind and body -- Aromatic medicine -- Aromatherapy and primary health care -- Stress, including critical care -- Pregnancy and childbirth -- Learning disabilities and autism -- Care of the elderly, with particular reference to dementia -- Palliative and supportive care -- Aromatherapy in the UK -- Aromatherapy within the National Health Service -- Aromatherapy worldwide
Appendices, glossary and useful addresses. Appendix A. Essential oils for general use in health-care settings -- Indications for uses of essential oils -- Appendix B. Oterotonic pils which facilitate delivery -- Emmenagogic essential oils -- Disputed emmenagogic oils -- Toxic, neurotoxic and abortive oils not used in aromatherapy -- Neurotoxic and/or abortive oils occasionally used in aromatherapy -- Potential skin irritant oils -- Phototoxic oils -- Contact-sensitizing oils -- General properties of essential oils -- Appendix C. Occupational health and safety -- Appendix D. Essential oil : definition for aromatherapeutic purposes -- References to appendices -- Sources to appendices -- Glossary -- Useful addresses.
Aromatherapy.
Essences and essential oils