Aromatherapy is the use of organic essences of aromatic plants for healing and the maintenance of vitality. The essences, or 'essential oils' as they are commonly known, are extracted from a variety of plants and are highly concentrated. Each oil has its own unique healing properties and fragrance. One essential oil may contain over one hundred different chemical components.
Essential oils come from all plants and the liquid is held in tiny sacs anywhere on the plant.
It may be taken from the petals, roots, rind, stalk, seeds, sap, nuts, leaves or the bark. Aromatherapy treatments using essential oils provide us with a whole range of benefits. Many common disorders can be helped in a holistic way, particularly any ill-health resulting from emotional, physical, environmental or mental stress. Aromatherapy treatments can have therapeutic effects on your state of mind, being particularly useful for easing depression, fatigue and insomnia , for general relaxation and to stimulate and refresh the mind and senses. Physical ailments are also helped by aromatherapy, for example flu, hangovers, jetlag, muscle ache and general convalescence.