Most people love their sense of smell to be stimulated by the beautiful scents of flowers, be it roses, jasmine, or the delightful fragrance of orange blossom. Perhaps we each have a favourite plant or flower which evokes a sense of well-being, lifting our spirits, calming our minds and visually treating us to the wonderful delights of nature. Aromatherapy encompasses the healing nature of plants using the aroma of essential oils which have been distilled from fragrant, botanical specimens. Within these fragrant plants tiny little oil sacks contain a wealth of healing magic.
Essential oils contain the regenerating, oxygenating, immune defence properties of plants.
These oxygenating molecules transport nutrients to protect the plant from disease, helping us to maintain its good health. Similarly distilled essential oils have the ability to help facilitate the healing process within the human body on both the physical and emotional level. Historically essential oils have been used for many thousands of years, they are the oldest form of medicine and cosmetics known to man. According to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and Chinese manuscripts, priests and physicians were using essential oils to treat and heal the sick many thousands of years ago. Today new scientific research validates what perhaps ancient healers have known intuitively for many years but lacked the scientific evidence our twentieth century minds demand.