Choosing Essential Oils For Therapy

Having created an aromatherapy starter kit, the next stage in your apprenticeship is to learn the basics of choosing the right essence(s) for therapy. Oils need to be chosen to suit your physical and emotional needs, or those of the person you wish to help.

 

It is fine to use aromatherapy as a symptomatic treatment for short-term problems such as coughs and colds, muscular aches and pains due to exertion, acute bronchitis, and reactive 'stress' (that which can be pinpointed to tangibles such as overwork, moving house, the ending of a relationship, and so on). But long-term problems, such as susceptibility to every passing infection, arthritis, chronic anxiety and depression, need to be treated within the context of an holistic healing regime. Otherwise the treatment will do little more than soothe the surface.