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Aromatherapy

The term "aromatherapy" refers to the use of aromatic essences also called essential oils or volatile oils, to assure well-being, to prevent illness or to cure some morbid affections.
"Aromatherapy" is intended as an holistic curative method that can act on physical, mental and spiritual processes through the use of essential oils.
Essential oils are highly volatile substances, and thanks to this peculiarity they easily reach our nose. Between the complementary therapies, aromatherapy is one of the most well-known and the fastest growing in the entire world. Its therapeutic value is more and more appreciated by researchers and doctors. Essential oils are precious fluids, with a sweet perfume, extracted from many varieties of plants.

Historical notices about aromatherapy

The use of treating the body with aromatic oils goes back to at least two thousand years B. C. In the Bible we find citations about the use of medical plants and essences to cure diseases and as well as for religious purposes. The ancient Egyptians used them as cosmetics and also for embalming the dead in order to slow down decomposition. Later on, their usage spread among the Greeks and the Romans and then later was introduced in Great Britain.
In the Middle Ages, a period that was characterized by plagues, the perfumers spread thanks to the fact that almost all the essential oils are good antiseptics.
In the 19th century chemists became interested in essential oils of plants and started to produce artificial essential oils, usefull just as perfumes and not as potential curative substances. Later they tried to artificially produce substances with curative properties similar to the oils and in time found the resulting chemical experiments to be so succesful that the plants and their therapeutical virtues were almost forgotten.
However, the beginning of the 20th century saw a renewed interest for natural products and treatments, still largely appreciated nowadays.

In practice, they are more used than we think. They are present in many cures, perfumes and beauty products. Essential oils are not oily essences, particularly concentrate in some parts of the plants: flowers, resins, bark, roots, skin, leaves, fruits; they are volatile fractions obtained by plants through distillation in vapour stream. They have a complex composition. Thay are not easily water soluble. They highly stimulate sense of smell, because they evaporate at room temperature. Essential oils have physical, chemical and therapeutical properties.

They can be considered the soul of plants, since they are the result of the extraction, through particular procedures, of the energetic essence of the plant itself. Their action is never limited and highly specific for an organ or an apparatus, instead they have a general action on the organism in all its affections and aromatherapy has not been perceived just as a pure symptomatic cure, but as a real systemic treatment.