Table Of ContentEssential Oils: Beginner's Guide with Simple Recipes
for Aromatherapy, Weight Loss, and Stress Relief
Title Page
Chapter 6: Essential Oils That You Should Keep at Home
Chapter 7: Blending Essential Oils
Chapter 8: Essential Oil Profiles
Chapter 9: Essential Oils and Aromatherapy
Chapter 10: Essential Oils for Weight Loss
Chapter 11: Essential Oils for Stress Relief
Chapter 12: Recipes for Other Uses of Essential Oils
Chapter 13: Essential Oils and the Chakras
Essential Oils
Beginner's Guide with Simple Recipes for Aromatherapy, Weight Loss,
and Stress Relief
Table of Contents
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Introduction
For thousands of years, essential oils have been used for various purposes,
including cosmetic uses, emotional uplifting and spiritual enhancement. The
ancient tradition of harnessing the powers of essential oils has caught the
attention of numerous people, as these substances can bring complete body and
mind wellness that other individuals may consider impossible.
The purest essential oils are extracted from botanical plants through cold
pressing and steam distillation. According to studies, essential oils are even more
useful and potent than the plants from which they come. Once you hold and
smell a bottle of essential oils, you can certainly tell that it comes from the pure
essence of nature.
In addition, holding a bottle of any type of powerful essential oils is like
holding the health-enhancing botanical plants through inhalation, diffusion,
topical application, internal intake, or massaging.
Essential oils can be used for various purposes including promoting a
positive emotional state, enhancing physical wellness, purifying a home, refining
the skin, and creating deep and real spiritual awareness.
Essential oils are said to activate an individual's limbic system, which is the
brain's center of memory and emotion. Thus, they can inspire an emotional state
that is positive and balanced. For instance, smelling the refreshing fragrance of a
fresh orange peel can usually brighten your atmosphere. This is because essential
oils have a unique, pleasant, and complex scent that sparks off the limbic system.
Essential oils can also enhance or improve your physical well-being. Modern
lifestyles translate to lack of exercise, poor diet, and a number of environmental
toxins that diminish energy levels. Essential oils, as well as essential oil-infused
supplements, can provide the necessary solution for feeling your best and
restoring balance in terms of physical wellness.
Essential oils can also be useful for purifying your home. Most of the
chemical formulas for home purification available on the market contain harmful
ingredients that are detrimental to your health. In order to enjoy your home
without compromising your health, it is advisable to use essential oils, which can
cleanse dirty surfaces, clean sticky messes, polish countertops, and provide a
fresh fragrance, gently and effectively.
During ancient times, essential oils were considered the top skin care secret
for promoting a clear and attractive complexion. Back then, no harmful
chemicals were used to protect the skin. People used essential oils to nurture
their skin and hair. In addition, some essential oils can help diminish signs of
aging.
Apart from physical and emotional well-being, essential oils are also used for
creating deep and real spiritual awareness. A number of spiritual ceremonies and
religious traditions make use of incense and essential oils to help people
transcend and connect with something higher than themselves. According to
studies, the pure components of essential oils activate the olfactory receptors and
stimulate the limbic system in the brain, which is associated with emotion,
memory, and mind state. Essential oils can help improve your spiritual practice
and awareness; for these applications, you just need to dilute the oils and apply
them onto your wrists, behind your ears, and feet. Essential oils are also used
through diffusion in a personal or quiet area.
In this book, you will learn about the origins and fundamentals of essential
oils. One chapter will focus on the actions and applications of essential oils in
different bodily systems. You will also learn about the significance of the quality
of essential oils and the common ones you should keep at home. There will also
be chapters focusing on carrier oils and how to use them with essential oils, the
safety of essential oils, and the profiles of various essential oils. You will also
learn about how essential oils are used for aromatherapy, weight loss, and stress
relief with basic recipes you can follow. One chapter deals with other common
uses of essential oils that you might not have dreamed possible. In the final
chapter, you will learn about the chakras, how to balance them, and what
essential oils can do to restore balance in each chakra.
Chapter 1: Origins of Essential Oils
Whenever you peel an orange, rub a lavender sprig between your fingers, or
walk through a garden of roses, you become aware of the special fragrance of
that particular plant, don’t you? However, you might also wonder exactly what it
is you smell. In general, essential oils give herbs and spices their particular
flavors and scents. Essential oils also give fruits and flowers their fragrance.
For instance, identifying the essential oil in the orange peel is not so hard.
This is because of the richness of its scent, which spurts when you peel the
orange. Once the droplets of oil found in the glandular cells or tiny pockets in
the outer peel become volatile, they infuse the air with their particular aroma.
However, not all plants have essential oils with such rich scent. For instance,
the rose flower's aromatic content is extremely low; as such, it would take
numerous petals in order to produce 300 grams of essential rose oil. While the
aromatic attribute of essential oils has a significant role in either the attraction or
repulsion of specific animals or insects, it is not fully explained why some plants
have essential oils and others do not. A number of scientists also assert that
essential oils are significant in the lives and transpiration processes of some
plants, as well as protect against disease. Thus, essential oils are regarded as the
life-blood or “hormone” of a certain plant because of their highly concentrated
nature.
Essential oils are found in different parts of certain plants, including the root,
seeds, bark, flowers, resin, balsam, and wood. For instance, the bitter orange tree
produces orange essential oils from its fruit peel; neroli essential oils from its
blossoms; and petitgrain essential oils from its twigs and leaves. The clove tree
is able to produce various types of essential oils from its leaves, buds, and stalks.
The Scotch Pine produces distinct oils from its resin, needles, and wood.
The origins of essential oils go back to the earliest civilizations. However,
over the course of time, the broad range of essential oils produced from various
natural sources as well as their process of extraction and usage has developed.
Essential Oils Origins – Ancient Civilizations
For thousands of years, aromatic plants and their essential oils have been
used as perfumes, incense, and cosmetics, as well as for both culinary and
medical purposes. Many early civilizations used essential oils in their rituals,
making them an important part of their tradition. Essential oils were also
regarded for their therapeutic and religious roles. Today, some cultures still
practice such rituals in the Eastern and the Western parts of the globe. For
instance, in the East, most Tibetan temples have burning sprigs of Juniper as an
integral part of purification. In the West, Roman Catholics use Frankincense
during their mass.
In ancient civilizations, perfumes were regarded as an expression of the
cosmic and animistic doctrines. They were a huge part of the art of therapy, as
well as the incantations and theophanies of certain cults. From around 2000 BC,
the Indian Vedic literature lists more than 700 substances including Spikenard,
Myrrh, Sandalwood, Cinnamon, Ginger, and Coriander. However, essential oils
were more than just perfumes for some ancient cultures.
In the Indo-Aryan language, the term “atar” means odor, wind, smoke, and
essence. Adherents of the Rig Veda made use of herbs and essential oils for their
therapeutic and liturgical rites. These cultures' understanding of the plants
developed into the Ayurvedic or Indian tradition of medicine that is still used
today.
The ancient herbal tradition of the Chinese involved the use of herbs,
essential oils, and the practice of acupuncture based on the earliest records of the
Book of Internal Medicine of the Yellow Emperor dating back from before 2000
BC. Some of the remedies of this Chinese herbal tradition included Ginger and
Opium essential oils, which were used in therapeutic applications, and also for
religious rites, including the Tcheou-Li and Li-ki ceremonies. Today, Borneo
Camphor is still being used in China, specifically for ritual purposes.
Probably the richest and most famous use of the first aromatic materials
came from ancient Egypt. The Papyrus manuscripts from the reign of Khufu
contain records of a number of medicinal herbs. In another papyrus that was
written around 2000 BC, choice perfumes and fine oils, as well as the incense of
temples, were used as offerings to delight the god. Aromatic gums and essential
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