Aromatherapy is clean and natural, and proven to relieve several health issues. A treatment method to consider for anyone thinking about alternative or holistic solutions to healing and health care.
Hippocrates: a conventionalized image in a Roman "portrait" bust (19th century engraving) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Did you know that:
- Aromatherapy is an ancient art of healing believed to have been developed by the Egyptians.
- Hippocrates, father of modern medicine, used aromatic fumigation to cleanse Athens from the plague.
- A French chemist named Rene Maurice Gattefosset is credited with creating the term “aromatherapy”.
- Aromatherapy is used to treat several health problems: from stress and anxiety to postpartum blues.
Learn more:
Why We Love Aromatherapy (And You Should, Too!)
One final thought:
September is National Yoga Month and perhaps nobody has made this connection but seems to me Yoga and Aromatherapy would pair quite nicely. Don't you agree?
