Learn more about Aromatherapy!

There is a great interest in Aromatherapy and alternative therapies and I thought I should spread the word. I will regularly update my blog, starting with a bit of a history lesson. I'd love your feedback!

In many ways Aromatherapy isn’t different at all from conventional medicine. Firstly, the actual products can be very similar, for example aspirin is a synthetic copy of the plant Willow Bark. Secondly, both forms of treatment aim to get the molecules into the blood stream. When you take prescribed tablets, the molecules get in by travelling through your gut wall. In aromatherapy, Essential Oils enter by being rubbed into the skin or molecules are breathed in and enter via your lungs - if you have ever seen anyone using an inhaler you will know that is the quickest way to get a drug into the body.

Aromatherapy isn’t new - until the First World War it was all there was. On the battlefields of the Somme, Lavender was all they had to help pain, sterilise wounds and help sleep.