An oil diffuser is a better way to get all the advantages of aromatherapy. And in case you need a little review, let’s take a quick look at what scientists have discovered about this traditional healing tool.
Understand how the method works
Therapy with essential oils doesn’t work on your nose. It works on your brain. It doesn’t just change your mood as you think happy thoughts about flowers and walks in the woods, it also relieves pain and boosts your immune resistance-even if you don’t believe it works.
By hooking up volunteers to EEG (electroencephalograph) machines, scientists have discovered:
- The smell of orange juice wakes you up in the morning-and makes you sleepy at night.
- The scent of peppermint helps you shift gears from working to relaxing.
- If you work out at the gym so hard your adrenalin is still flowing when you get home, juniper will help you calm down and cool down.
- Whether it’s winter heat or summer cold, the smell of clover helps you deal with extremes of temperature.
- Headaches, burns, cuts, scratches, scrapes, and muscle strains are all relieved by lavender.
- And, men take note, women become more interested in sexual activity after smelling licorice.
The human brain is hard-wired to respond to smell, and the immune system is, too. You don’t have to believe everything about aromatherapy science to take advantage of its healing power. You just need to do it.
How to use healing essences
You could, of course, wave a bottle of herbal essences under your nose. You could, as mentioned above, heat a $30 bottle in a tiny ceramic bowl in a holder over a candle and let it all evaporate away in about an hour. You could drape yourself under mounds of towels and sniff the aromatics of your “herbal tea.” Or you could just buy an electric oil diffuser.
Why use a diffuser
Even though they are powered by electricity, electric diffusers don’t rely on heat to dissipate healing odors. They use air pressure. An itty bitty compressor squirts a stream of air over a well containing the essential oil, and just a little bit of the oil evaporates. So little, in fact, that the unit will still be generating scent that fills the whole room for two weeks on just a single teaspoon (5 ml) of oil!
If you do aromatherapy, you can pay for the diffuser many times over with your savings on supplies.
Jason Vandijk is a freelance contributor and editor of the Beauty and Fitness information portal which reports on the latest Beauty, Fitness and Relaxation Therapies promoting natural detoxification and healing benefits. To learn more about Oil Diffuser visit http://www.aromatherapygiftstore.com
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