Journey Through Aromatherapy


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Journey Through Aromatherapy is a comprehensive guide to the healing and therapeutic use of essential oils on a physical as well as psychological level. Drawing on 28 years of experience, Dr. Ratan combines ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with modern aromatherapy principles in Vedic Aromatherapy, creating unique blends for holistic health and healing. This unique, beautifully illustrated guide explains the active ingredients, properties, and uses for over 90 remarkable essential oils, and the ways they affect our physical and emotional well-being. Whether you're experienced in Ayurveda and aromatherapy or just beginning, Dr. Ratan will help you: - Understand the secrets of blends and applications, whether healing, relaxing, uplifting, or sensual - Choose the right base oils to enhance your blends - Discover chakra healing with essential oils - Find out 50 easy ways to use aromatherapy and essential oils - Learn aromatherapy and beauty therapy for every body part - Benefit from the wonders of evening primrose oil - Make feel-good fragrances for the body and home, including blending, aromatherapy massage, and steam inhalation, alongside natural beauty treatments




The Essential Oils Complete Reference Guide


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Everything You Need to Know About Essential Oils for Pure Healing & Wellness Explore the world of natural, nontoxic essential oils for all aspects of your life. Stimulate your senses and soothe your body and soul with the popular practice that has become a respected, safe alternative to modern medicine. Learn all about essential oils to use for bettering your life and the lives of your family and friends. Included are: - Profiles of the most widely used essential oils - Formulas and blending guides with the most effective techniques for using them - Accurate application methods from time-honored poultices to modern day steam inhalation - Remedies for a wide range of ailments including muscle strain, headaches and skin problems - DIY personal care from beauty treatments, massage and cooking to moms & new babies, pets and spiritual healing - Over 300 stunning images This comprehensive guide is a must-have resource and welcome addition to the libraries of experienced and novice aromatherapists alike.




Handbook of Essential Oils


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Handbook of Essential Oils: Science, Technology, and Applications presents the development, use and marketing of essential oils. Exciting new topics include insecticidal applications, but there is a continued focus on the chemistry, pharmacology and biological activities of essential oils. The third edition unveils new chapters including the insect repellent and insecticidal activities of essential oils, the synergistic activity with antibiotics against resistant microorganisms, essential oil applications in agriculture, plant-insect interactions, and pheromones and contaminants in essential oils. Features Presents a wide range of topics including sources, production, analysis, storage, transport, chemistry, aromatherapy, pharmacology, toxicology, metabolism, technology, biotransformation, application, utilization, and trade Includes discussions of biological activity testing, results of antimicrobial and antioxidant tests, and penetration enhancing activities useful in drug delivery Covers up-to-date regulations and legislative procedures, together with the use of essential oils in perfumes, cosmetics, feed, food, beverages, and pharmaceutical industries Unveils new chapters including the insect repellent and insecticidal activities of essential oils, the synergistic activity with antibiotics against resistant microorganisms, essential oil applications in agriculture, plant-insect interactions, and pheromones and contaminants in essential oils The American Botanical Council (ABC) named the second edition as the recipient of the 2016 ABC James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award and recognized that essential oils are one of the fastest growing segments of the herbal product market




The Best Natural Cures Using Essential Oils


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Everything You Need to Know About Essential Oils for Pure Healing and Wellness Explore the world of natural, nontoxic essential oils in this revised edition of The Essential Oils Complete Reference Guide. Stimulate your senses and soothe your body and soul with the popular practice that has become a respected, safe alternative to modern medicine. Learn all about essential oils to use for bettering your life and the lives of your family and friends. Included are: • Formulas and blending guides with the most effective techniques for using them • Accurate application methods, from time-honored poultices to modern-day steam inhalation • Remedies for a wide range of ailments including muscle strain, headaches and skin problems • DIY personal care from beauty treatments and massage to supplements for lifting your mood and improving sleep This recipe guide is a must-have resource and welcomed addition to the libraries of experienced and novice aromatherapists alike.




The Aromatherapy Companion


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Be happy, healthy, and beautiful! Victoria Edwards offers the most comprehensive aromatherapy guide available, with hundreds of recipes for beauty, health, and physical and emotional well-being. Edwards guides you through making perfumes, bath and massage oils, aphrodisiacs, and health care supplements. Learn about the properties of essential and carrier oils, and master classic recipes for healing and relaxation. You’ll soon be creating customized blends for you and your friends that promote tranquility and strength.




The Magic Of Aromatheraphy


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This book presents a wonderful introduction for beginners in Aromatherapy, as well as a quick reference guide for experienced practioners. The book offers knowledge of 332 herbal aromatic recipes, to help you balance your physical, mental and spiritual life.




Aromatherapy for Massage Practitioners


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This book is a complete guide for massage therapists interested in adding aromatherapy to their practice. It addresses practical concerns such as pricing sessions to account for the cost of oils, proper dilutions, sending products home with clients, and effective formulations for specific ailments. Case studies present specific ailments in clinical scenarios, with proper aromatherapy and massage treatments. Recipe Boxes provide directions for blending essential oils. Activity boxes develop readers' decision-making skills. Essential oil monographs discuss the history, traditional uses, safety considerations, and most effective use in massage therapy of 50 individual essential oils. Review questions appear in every chapter.




Cancer And Ayurveda


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Cancer is of many types. Various treatments are available . In this book you will find , Ayurvedic approach in diagnosing cancer , Ayurvedic treatment for cancer. Articles on , animal experiments , clinical studies , cancer and genetic analysis , life style increases risk of cancer , air pollution , case studies , useful plants for cancer. Research on plants. Compound drugs are described. Food / recipes for cancer patients .




Mixing Essential Oils for Magic


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The Ultimate Guide to Mixing, Matching, and Making Essential Oils Choose the best essential oils for your creative and magical mixing with this straightforward, hands-on guide. Through step-by-step instruction on how to measure, mix, and assess blends, you'll move beyond following others' recipes and into creating your own oil combinations. Mixing Essential Oils for Magic offers everything you need to understand not only how to blend but also why specific blends work together. Learn how to mix oils by botanical family, scent group, and perfume note. Discover an encyclopedic listing of essential and carrier oil profiles, as well as thorough cross-references for the oils and their magical associations. With guidance on the historical and present-day uses of essential oils, you'll make personal blending an integral part of your spiritual and magical practices.