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René-Maurice Gattefossé discovered the healing properties of lavender oil after severely burning his hands in a lab explosion in 1910. This lead him into a life-time of research into Essential Oils. This book is a fascinating blend of ancient and modern knowledge, with helpful explanatory notes by Robert Tisserand. Aromatherapists will find it an excellent reference tool. Chapters include: human and animal smells, toxicity, properties of essential oils and their constituents, treatment of diseases, and over 50 case studies from doctors. Here is the missing link in Essential Oil literature, by the man who coined the word ‘Aromatherapy’.

Dr Jean Valnet is a medical doctor with over 30 years experience in aromatherapy. Regarded as the father of aromatic medicine and one of its foremost authorities, his book provides detailed evidence for the efficacy of plant medicine - nature’s most time-honored method for treatment of illness and relief of pain. 50 essences are covered in detail, providing:
• Classification of plant medicines • Scientific explanation of how they work • Detailed indications for internal and external use of plant essences, extracts, and tinctures • Case histories • Information on gathering and conservation of plants
• Formulas for prescriptions, medicinal wines, and elixirs
Dr. Valnet makes a strong case for curtailing our use of dangerous chemical therapies and antibiotics, offering demonstrable proof of the vital power of plant medicines to prevent and heal disease and strengthen the immune system. Because of its scientific and medical slant, this book will be of great interest to aromatherapists, health care professionals and students of aromatic medicine.

Discover the metaphysical and energetic healing properties of 40 single essential oils and how they can be used to manipulate qi, the body’s vital energy, to stimulate healing from negative emotional and mental states. Some forms of nervous tension, for example, are caused by stagnant qi energy, which can be released with essential oils. This book provides help for a wide range of common emotional and mental complaints including depression, low energy, lack of concentration, poor memory, anxiety, and low self-esteem. It also gives fantastic detail on the spiritual effects of each essential oil. Easy-to-reference charts and full-color illustrations teach simple aromatherapy massage and acupressure techniques that restore balance to the body and psyche.

Essential Oils can be very effective in helping to release emotional patterns - and this book shows you how. Studies at New York University have proven that the amygdala (the part of the brain which stores emotional trauma) does not respond to sound or sight or touch. It will only release emotional trauma through aromatic stimuli - through the sense of smell. In this book you will discover an "A to Z" of over 270 emotional issues (everything from Abandonment and Co-dependency, to Despair, Humiliation and Fear of Love). Each emotional issue is cross-referenced to the essential oil that can assist with transforming that emotion, and the acupressure "alarm point" on the body where the oil should be applied (diagrams clearly demonstrate how to find these points). This is empowered further by a chapter on muscle testing (kinesiology), which teaches you how to "speak" to your own body, confirming what it needs.

Advanced Aromatherapy is a 138-page workbook-size textbook that provides a more advanced look into essential oils and aromatherapy. Essential oil chemistry, EO selection and application are the topical highlights of this information-rich text.

Contents of Advanced Aromatherapy

• Aromatherapy: A Challenge to Conventional Medicine
• Essential Oils — Definition and Distillation
• The Effects of Essential Oils
• Self-Treatment with Essential Oils
• Choosing Essential Oils
• Application of Essential Oils
• Aromatherapy: Mediating Between the Immune System, Emotions, and the Body
• Afterword
• Endnotes
• Resources
• Index

This in-depth text explores the spiritual and emotional blessings of 61 essential oils. Drawing understanding from Chinese Medicine, Reflexology and Craniosacral therapy, massage therapist Deborah Eidson shows how essential oils and Bach Flower Remedies can be used to identify and free up emotional blockages that underpin our health problems. She describes the effects of each oil on life transformations and healings, indicating how each oil impacts on energy blockages, relevant organs, and the chakras.

Linda Smith is the founder of the Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry Program and has taught over 300 workshops nationally and internationally. Her book details the history of healing in the early Christian church with prayer, hands-on healing, and anointing. Combining ancient and modern uses of essential oils with scriptural and scientific viewpoints, the use of healing oils and healing hands is explained.
She lists 18 aromatic oils mentioned in the Bible, along with their chemistry, scriptural references and modern uses, and discusses prayer psalms and essential oils to use for healing. With extensive scientific references, Linda teaches about our vibrational self and the subtle energy fields that affect our health and emotions. This is an excellent guide to spiritual uses of essential oils.

This book documents more than 500 scriptural references to thirty-three essential oils, their uses, and the plants from which they were derived in Biblical times. David also presents, in an easy to understand form, the scientific basis for anointing with essential oil as a healing method taught by Jesus to his disciples and practiced by early Christians. The book concludes with complete instructions for a Bible Oils Program you can do in your local community.

This book is the perfect integration of aromatherapy with Ayurvedic (Indian) medicine, presenting both sciences in an easily accessible format. Discover your Ayurvedic metabolic type (Vata, Pitta or Kapha) through a self-diagnosis questionnaire, and learn which essential oils and foods will help restore balance to your metabolic type. This book also contains information and illustrations of over 100 essential oils, describing their traditional Ayurvedic uses and action on the body. There are great recipes for the use of essential oils for common problems, and for pampering the skin and hair. Special ayurvedic and metaphysical treatments are also described, such as the effects of essential oils on the chakras of the body.

Discover the wonderful world of aromatherapy for children. Kids of all sizes get wound up at times, and lend themselves to the bumps and adventures of life. Natural therapies, and especially aromatherapy, are a subtle but powerful way of aiding children’s health problems and imbalances and returning that sense of good health and wellbeing. With an A to Z of common childhood ailments and complementary aromatherapy recipes and treatments, this delightfully illustrated book is sure to appeal to the child in every parent. 143 pages.

Following a seasonal approach to internal cleansing, chiropractor authors LeAnne and David Deardeuff present valuable instruction, gained through years of clinical practice using essential oils. The books starts with colon cleansing and, in a seasonal sequence, progresses through many other organ and body systems cleanses, including the Master Cleanse by Stanley Burroughs. It also offers rarely found information on using essential oils to enhance each cleanse and to help relieve symptoms of Chronic Fatigue, Lupus, Infertility, Hormone Imbalance, Diabetes and other conditions of our day. Includes many case histories.

In this book David combines his spiritual perspectives with knowledge of science and chemistry, providing a wealth of information, including over 100 pages of chemical tables and charts. For those who want insight into the very complex chemistry behind essential oils, this book is of enormous value.