Category: Aromatherapy

Sandalwood - Aromatherapy for the Mind, Body, and Spirit

Sandalwood is one of the world’s most widely used essential oils, prized for its scent in perfumery, for its therapeutic effects in Chinese, Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicine systems, and for its ability to focus the mind in meditative yogic traditions.

8 Reasons for Burning Incense: Chandra Prakash

It’s generous. It connects you to the elements. It sparks appreciation. It is healthy. It brings you back. It joins heaven and earth. It offers a lesson. It makes you prepare.

Zulu Cold Treatment Geranium Kaloba Legalized

A Zulu herbal Geranium medicine which has been used by tribes for centuries has been passed for sale in Britain.

Ylang Ylang

Ylang Ylang is produced from Cananga odorata trees grown in plantations, in Madagascar and the Comoros Islands, where they rarely reach heights above 2.5 metres. Plantation trees are cropped so they spread rather than grow tall, as the branches are brittle, and climbing them can cause damage to the tree, flowers and the picker!

Plantation trees [...]

The History Of Aromatherapy

The ancient history of aromatherapy is very interesting. Contrary to popular conception, aromatherapy is not a modern concept; rather, it is just that the term has only recently been formed in the 20th century, though the history of aromatherapy in fact, goes way back in time.

According to ancient history of aromatherapy, it was the Chinese [...]