Aromatherapy, sometimes it’s called essential oil therapy, is the practice of using essential oils made by natural plants for therapeutic benefit, promoting health and well-being. Aromatherapy has been used for centuries. When inhaled, the scent molecules in essential oils travel from the smell receptors sending the message to the olfactory nerves activating certain areas of the brain and especially impact the amygdala, located in the limbic system, which plays a role in your emotions. They could also have an impact on your hypothalamus, which may respond to the oil by creating feel-good brain chemicals like serotonin. Some experts think that when you put essential oils on your skin, they cause a response in your skin and other parts of your body, like your joints

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Essential oils are made from flower, herb, and tree parts, like bark, roots, peels, and petals. The cells that give a plant its fragrant smell are its "essence." When an essence is extracted from a plant, it becomes an essential oil.

It takes a lot of plant product to make essential oils. More than 200 pounds of lavender flowers are used to make just 1 pound of lavender essential oil.

 

Aromatherapy's health benefits:

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• Ease stress, anxiety, and depression

• Boost feelings of relaxation

• Improve sleep

• Help improve quality of life for people with long-term health problems like dementia

• Ease certain types of pain, including pain from kidney stones and osteoarthritis

• Fight bacteria when you put them on your skin

• Ease some of the side effects of cancer treatment, like nausea and pain

• Treat asthma, insomnia, fatigue, depression, inflammation, peripheral neuropathy, menstrual issues, alopecia, erectile dysfunction, low appetite and dry mouth

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