What Is Aromatherapy? A Natural Way To Maintain Physical And Mental Well-Being – News18
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Aromatherapy helps treat colds, flu, sleep deprivation, stress, and bacterial infections. It works through scent and oil absorption via the skin. Various methods, such as diffusers, aromatic sprays, and inhalers, are used to deliver its benefits
Aromatherapy includes massaging the skin with essential oils, providing numerous therapeutic benefits. (News18 Hindi)
You must have heard about several different therapies like Sound Healing or Ayurveda Therapy, but have you ever heard about Aromatherapy? Aroma can also be a way to treat physical and mental problems.
A pleasant fragrance positively affects the brain, improving mood, and with some practice, it also brings healing to our mental state. In aromatherapy, the root, leaf, oil, stem, etc., of aromatic plants are used to calm and heal.
What is Aromatherapy?
Aromatherapy involves more than just smelling fragrances. It includes massaging the skin with essential oils, providing numerous therapeutic benefits. ‘Aroma’ means ‘fragrance’, and ‘therapy’ means treatment.
Aromatherapy relieves stress and reduces fatigue. Essential oils extracted from natural elements like aromatic plants, herbs, flowers, bark, and leaves have been used for centuries. These oils calm the mind and offer a solution for those who struggle with sleep, keeping you refreshed. Several essential oils are used in this therapy, including lavender, jasmine, basil, rosemary, rose, fennel, ginger, and lemongrass.
Benefits of Aromatherapy
- Aromatherapy helps cure colds and flu while reducing bacterial infections. It works through smell and oil absorption through the skin. Many methods are used, such as diffusers, aromatic sprays, and inhalers, which work through smell. Oil, cream, or lotion added to bathwater, steaming the face, and hot or cold compresses with clay paste work via absorption through the skin.
- Aromatherapy reduces pain, alleviates insomnia, lessens joint pain, and relieves headaches and migraines.
- This therapy can also help with chemotherapy side effects, ease discomfort during labour, and improve digestion.
- Lavender aromatherapy helps cure stress, anxiety, or low mood. The fragrance of lavender brings peace of mind.
- Inhaling the fragrance of eucalyptus essential oil can help clear a blocked throat and cure coughs.
- The light fragrance of jasmine refreshes and can help deal with mental conditions like stress and depression.
- The Tulsi plant, found in almost every household, can help normalise blood pressure and heart rate and alleviate cold and cough symptoms.
