08/17/2015
What do you need to know about the impact of aromas on our lives? What is Aromatherapy? Does your Ukrainian lady like aromatherapy and which fragrance is her favourite?
The word "aromatherapy" is known all around: the Greek "flavour" has been organically merged with the "treatment." This is the method of alternative effects on the body based on essential oils to improve physical health. Unlike herbal therapy, the plants are not eaten or drunk, but only inhaled or applied to the skin. In a broad sense, aromatherapy includes artificial flavours, fragrances and air fresheners for the house. The smells of artificial flavours can affect our well-being, as well as their natural counterparts.
The whole history of humanity is impregnated with scents. For example, the Bible regularly referred to scented oil of myrrh and frankincense. The Chinese, Egyptians, Indians, Greeks and Romans for centuries BC breathed medicinal plants and took perfumed baths all day long. The oldest school of aromatherapy was born in Moorish Spain in the IX century. According to the teachings of the mysterious alchemist, the success of treatment depended on the purity and quality of the smell, "flavour soul", its brightness and vigour. Smells were treated by knights in their crusades and Christopher Columbus. The properties of plants were discovered by accident or inadvertence. For example, the physician and the French chemist Rene Maurice Gattefosse discovered that lavender oil treated burns only after the fire in his lab. Later, he used it during the treatment of soldiers. Last century medicinal smells were considered as the replacement of antibiotics.
