What is aromatherapy?

It is believed that we have heard of aromatherapy, because aromatherapy is a classic method of treatment in Chinese medicine after all, and now a lot of aromatherapy essential oils massage is from the aromatherapy, aromatherapy is in fact through the plant's natural flavor through the mouth, nose, skin, etc. into the body, affecting the human body's internal organs and qi and blood, so as to achieve the efficacy of treatment of certain diseases.

1, the effectiveness of aromatherapy

1, apple: inhibit the "snack desire"

The United States, Chicago, smell and taste therapy foundation psychologist Dr. Alan Hetch found that overweight people want to eat smell bananas, apples and mint, than did not smell the bananas, apples and mint. , apples and peppermint, lost more weight than those who didn't smell the scent.

2, orange or lavender: calm mood

Austrian researchers have found that smelling orange and lavender can put people in a positive frame of mind, reduce anxiety and make their moods calmer.

3, rosemary: help to learn new things

A new study by the University of Northumbria in the United Kingdom found that 48 college students smelled rosemary, more outstanding results in memory tests, higher alertness. The researchers said that remembering something by smelling rosemary makes you remember it better.

4, lavender or peppermint: pain

New York University Medical Center study found that spraying lavender oil to the anesthesia mask, surgical anesthetics and postoperative analgesics use significantly reduced. Studies by both Wheeling Jesuit University and German headache specialists have found that lavender or peppermint can relieve headaches as well as painkillers.

5, essential oils: relieve menstrual cramps

Korean research found that a week before menstruation, daily massage of the abdomen with essential oils for 15 minutes, you can make the pain of menstrual cramps reduced by half.

6, baby powder: enhance desire

The latest research shows that baby powder, cucumber and licorice scent can make women's private blood flow increased by 13%, which can enhance women's desire. Pumpkin pie and lavender have similar effects.

7, grapefruit: feel younger

Studies have found that fresh grapefruit flavor can make people feel younger and more energetic.

8, peppermint oil: fitness more energetic

Welling Jesus University study found that the peppermint flavor can make basketball players feel more energetic, faster, fighting and more confident.

9, lavender: sleep more sweet

Early studies have found that lavender can help people enter a deep sleep. Recent studies in Britain and South Korea have found that lavender flowers can also help relieve mild insomnia. Spraying some lavender essential oil on your bed before bedtime can help you sleep better.

2, types of aromatherapy

1, eat: lychee. Lychee is the best of all fruits in the aroma body effect, often eat can make the body vaguely emit a light and lasting body odor.

2, drink: Angelica dahurica, Rhizoma Ligustici, cloves, jasmine. Still drinking Coke or fruit juice? That was popular a few years ago. Try an aromatic herbal tea, it can make you in the unknowing body odor, choose one or two, the amount of no more than 5 grams, to find the feeling of lips and teeth.

3, bath: respectively, take 100 grams of rose buds, white sandalwood. But note that this rose is not the kind of rose we usually receive on Valentine's Day, but only in the pharmacy to buy rose petals, with a very strong aromatic flavor. Boil these two herbs together in water, pour them into the bath, and the aromatic essence they possess can be soaked into the body at will.

4, sleep: use both medicated caps and foot covers. The human body like the earth, there are north and south poles, the top of the head Baihui point is the highest point, the bottom of the foot Yongquan point location is the lowest, all the blood to this will be down or up, these two points connected out is through the head and foot of the main path. Before going to sleep, in the top of the head and the soles of the feet placed dipped in Angelica dahurica, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, cloves, jasmine mixed essential oils of cotton, and then put on a shower cap, put on the foot cover, you can let the whole body qi and blood in sleep countless times by the aroma fumigation, filtration, the disease in the unknowing, draw back.

5, sealing injection therapy: Chinese medicine unique aromatherapy, the use of meridians can carry the odor and the principle of material travel throughout the body, buried in specific acupuncture points fragrant drugs, and then seal the acupuncture points, so that the aroma to reach a certain part of the body, to treat diseases, disease repellent. The original is to crush the drug into a paste, modern Chinese medicine using essential oils made of plant extracts, the effect is more significant.