It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that aromatherapy is the use of aromas in therapy. The key to the idea is what the oils do for you and your baby. Aromatherapy has proven to be a great reliever of back pain, stress, arthritis, depression, migraine headache, and ladies, certain oils minimize menstrual pain. In babies and children, it can tackle colic, coughs and colds, allergies, asthma, earache, athlete's foot, and diseases like rubella, measles, chicken pox, and mumps.
Denise Whichello Brown, author of Teach Yourself Aromatherapy, says that aromatherapy has been around since ancient Europe and that plant medicines date back to approximately 3000 B.C.
Essential oils used in therapy are only obtained by distillation or expression. Distillation is the most popular and economical method. Great skill is involved in order to avoid changing its composition to something else. Once distilled, the oils are grouped into categories. Top note oils are most volatile (Aromas last 24 hours). Examples in this group are grapefruit, basil, lemon, lime, and eucalyptus. Middle note oils, like chamomile, geranium, and lavender, last two to three days. Frankincense, myrrh, neroli, and vertivert are base note oils and last for at least a week’s time.
By now you’re wondering how can all this information help me. Well, baths are a popular alternative to stress relief. Brown uses a great quote from Hippocractes, the Father of Medicine, in her book that reads, ‘the way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day‘. Add a small twist to your bath by dropping six drops of an undiluted oil into the water before you get in, scatter the oil in the water before stepping in. Another note to remember is to add the oil once the bath has ran completely. Shut the door the seal in the aroma.
Now that the parent is covered, how do we tackle that fussy baby? Using essential oils in babies can help boost the immune system. And Brown notes that if the baby should become ill, the child will have a quick recovery and experience less uneasiness, pending the oils are used. NEVER GIVE OILS TO BABIES INTERNALLY!
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