About Aromatherapy

Looking back into history, plants and flowers have been used throughout the centuries to help medical conditions. Although they are subtle and natural they do still help us today for our health conditions in the 21st Century. For example, Rosemary is a brain stimulant and helps the memory. Eucalyptus, Pine, Cypress and Sandalwood soothe and affect our lungs to aid breathing. Lavender and Chamomile are renowned for helping to relax us. Geranium is an hormonal balancer.
Aromatherapy can be used in all aspects of our lives. The use of flowers, herbs and plants can help us all today as they have always been able to. Put a few drops of Lavender onto burnt skin and it will start to help it heal. Essential oils can be added to the bath or used in a diffuser. If we have a cold we can add a few drops of eucalyptus to hot water and inhale it. Tea tree is used for helping us recover from bacterial infections or fungal infections of the toes. Essential oils have a subtle effect on us but are gentle.
Aromatherapy became increasingly popular in France in the 19th century when a renowned chemist named Gattafosse burnt his arm in his laboratory and placed it into some lavender and within hours noticed how his skin had started to heal.

An Aromatherapy treatment

An Aromatherapy treatment consists of taking a brief case history, asking about any health issues a person needs to talk about , finding out about what a patients needs are and blending and applying the appropriate oils to help them get back to health. The first session can take up to 1 hour 15mins and then follow-up treatments will last approximately 1 hour.

How can Aromatherapy help you?

By massaging gentle essential oils onto the body an Aromatherapy massage can help to relax, de-stress, reduce high blood pressure and generally enable someone to regain their sense of wellbeing amongst many other benefits.