Essential Oil Therapy, also known as Aromatherapy is the discipline of using natural aromatic and fragrant essential oils collected from flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, bark, and roots for therapeutic and medicinal purposes. Plant based essential oils and extracts are used in this form of therapy for the purpose of bringing balance, harmony, and health to the mind, body, and spirit of mankind.

Aromatherapy provides immediate positive impact on a participant when they partake of this form of therapy. The fast reaction time is due to the volatility of the oils themselves! The molecular structure of pure essential oil is extremely small, down to the micron level. When diffused into the air, it is easily absorbed through the nasal cavity and lungs bringing the full impact of their healing properties into the human physiology.
It combines physiological, psychological, and spiritual processes to augment an individual’s natural biological healing properties, encouraging our immune systems to operate at their fullest potential. By stimulating our blood circulation through the expansion of our blood vessels, we speed up the process of reducing inflammation in the body. By revitalizing our brain activity, essential oils reduce stress and tension; bring a calming effect to our soul; peace and calm to our mind.
Many Essential Oils contain vitamins, beneficial hormones, antibiotics, and contain antiseptic properties; all, which bring added benefits to our bodies in the preservation and healing processes.
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To understand the magic of aromatherapy, one must understand the underlying principals of the olfactory senses; the powerful sense of smell which is cohesively connected to the sense of taste.
Of the five basic senses the sense of smell is the only one with a direct channel to our brain, which elicits immediate responses upon reception of odors, fragrances, and aromas.

The sense of smell, just like the sense of taste, is a chemical sense. They are called chemical senses because they detect chemicals in the environment, with the difference being that smell works at dramatically larger distances than that of taste. The process of smelling goes more or less like this:
Vaporized odor molecules (chemicals) floating in the air reach the nostrils and dissolve in the mucus, which is on the roof of each nostril.
Underneath the mucus, in the olfactory epithelium, specialized receptor cells called olfactory receptor neurons detect the odor. These neurons are capable of detecting thousands of different odors.
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The practice of utilizing Essential Oils to improve your overall health and wellbeing is known in the Naturopathic Health Community as Aromatherapy. The constituents of Essential Oils are known as Hormones, Antibiotics, Thermions, Esters, and Recycling Cells which are essential to a plants very existence; the combination of these properties help the plant develop immunities to diseases caused by certain bacterium’s.

These same elementals are rich in compounds that can aid the human body fight its own encounter against viral and bacterial infections; as well as provide essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals directly into our biological systems.
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