Description
Description: Aromatherapy is a holistic healing treatment that uses natural plant extracts to promote health and well-being. Sometimes it’s called essential oil therapy. Aromatherapy uses aromatic essential oils medicinally to improve the health of the body, mind, and spirit. It enhances both physical and emotional health.
Treatment Goals: Boost your mood and reduce your stress and anxiety through our relaxing soft and gentle pressure massage with essential oils applied to the skin.
Benefits
- Ease stress, anxiety, and depression
- Boost feelings of relaxation
- Improve sleep
- Help improve the quality of life for people with long-term health problems like dementia.
- Ease certain types of pain, including pain from kidney stones and osteoarthritis of the knee.
- Fight bacteria when you put them on your skin
- Ease some of the side effects of cancer treatment, like nausea and pain
Contraindication: Some essential oils are contraindicated for use with specific conditions. Several oils are contraindicated for pregnancy and breastfeeding due to their abortifacient properties. Completing a full client intake is important to avoid administering an essential oil with a known contraindication, including information about preexisting conditions like pregnancy. Epilepsy – people with epilepsy or seizure risk should avoid stimulating essential oils such as sage, sweet fennel, hyssop, eucalyptus, and rosemary. Some safe oils: lavender, marjoram.
High Blood Pressure – avoid oils that will increase circulation and adrenaline: rosemary, peppermint, hyssop, thyme, eucalyptus, and sage.
Low Blood Pressure – avoid oils that are overly sedating clary sage, Ylang Ylang, and lavender in very high doses.
Pregnancy – Essential oils can have enormous benefits for pregnant women, and if they are used according to the dosage chart can help women have a more pleasant pregnancy and delivery.
Babies & Children under 5 yrs. – Keep dosages down to 1% essential oils per dilution as per the dosage chart..
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