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The Aromatherapy Store – All About Inhaling Oils and Fragrances
June 14th, 2010 by admin
The Aromatherapy Store Information bank writes ‘How Essential Oils Penetrate the Body’.
There are three main ways that essential oils are accessed by our bodies – inhalation (possibly the truest ‘aromatherapy’ method), topical application (with the use of massage oils etc applied on to skin) and ingestion (in the UK the least used approach).
1) Inhalation
This mode is usually viewed as probably the most direct way of the advantages of essential oils in combating emotional problems like unhappiness or worry. Once drawn into your body through inhalation, the essential oil molecules strike the olefactory centre at the top part of the nostrils – and this pool of approx 50 million sensory cells has direct correlation to your human brain – witness the immediate alarm sensation when the smell of smoke hits this centre, the sense of smell providing a main threat warning system.
In inhaling the essantial oil, some molecules will certainly be carried down into the airways and lungs and may have some immediate valuable effect in treating respiratory problems like congestion through immediate bodily contact with the mucus membrane. Smaller molecules will journey further and upon reaching the alveoli will be then transferred into the blood system, and from there round the body and the organs. Deep inhalation raises the level of flow and assimilation and is usually considered being the safest mode by way of minimising any possible ill effects.
Five drops with a tissue for an adult – three drops for kids, the elderly as well as the pregnant – with 2 or three profound breaths should prove to be effectual, plus a stiffer hankie tends to hold the perfume better – kitchen towel for example. The tissue can then be put within the shirt or vest of the recipient to utilise the bodies warmness to diffuse ongoing vapours.
Other methods include a single drop to the palms of the hands, which are then rubbed together and cupped at the nose. This approach is mostly only suggested when an intense burst is required and isn’t recommended in anyway for kids, the elderly or the pregnant.
Steamers are available to buy which can supply a safe method of diffusion – when steaming water or an oil burner is inappropriate for safety factors. Electrical diffusers also offer an outstanding technique of dispersing the essential oil as they are able to diffuse the various weighted molecules of oil at the same time – whereas an oil burner, if too hot, will disperse the lighter molecules in a short time and so the heavier molecules can sometimes be burnt and thus give off an bitter scent.
This method of diffusion also offers the advantage of the fact that airborne molecules are effective at fighting bacteria which enable it to assist in keeping the surfaces and areas freed from germs.