What is Aromatherapy?
Aromatherapy is the use of plant substances that have been extracted into essential oils, to encourage good health, equilibrium and well being. The name aromatherapy is somewhat misleading, because scent is only one aspect of aromatherapy. Essential oils can have a very positive and powerful effect on enhancing and healing the body, mind and spirit.

Aromatics have been used since the beginning of time. Modern day research has confirmed their therapeutic and medicinal qualities of being anti-bacterial, anti fungal, antiseptic, antiinflammatory, anti-viral, anti-venomous, anti-depressive, anti-neuralgic, stimulant, nervine, digestive and diuretic in nature.

Essential oils have been known to have a positive effect on all the major physical systems of the body including the circulatory, lymphatic, eliminative, reproductive, endocrine, muscular and skeletal.

Read more: Clinical Aromatherapy

Ancient Taoists realized that negative emotions can cause serious damage to one’s health; impairing physical, mental, and emotional functions. The Taoists understood that each human emotion is an expression of energy, and that certain emotions could be the negative energy behind many physical aliments. They also identified a specific cycle of relationships between the emotions and the internal organs.

For example, the experience of a “knot” in one’s stomach indicates the presence of worry, since this negative emotion accumulates in the stomach and spleen. Tensions, worries and stresses of the day are often not dispersed and accumulate in the internal organs and glands. These disturbances can cause physical tangling and knotting of the nerves, blood vessels and lymph nodes. The result is the gradual obstruction of energy flow through the meridians, circulatory, lymphatic and nerve flows to the internal organs.

Read more: Chi Nei Tsang: Internal Organ Rejuvenation

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