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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Ayurvedic Aromatherapy

Ayurvedic Aromatherapy

Ayurveda, the oldest system of medicine in the world, had great impact on medicine worldwide: its translated works around A.D. 400 began to influence the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as well as the Islamic medicine and other medical systems around the world.

Ayurvedic medicine is based on the theory that healing, which has to be wholesome, is contingent on an individual's unique constitutions. Ayurvedic treatments are based on diet, herbs, and oils designed to meet the individual's health needs to promote healing. In other words, Ayurveda offers a holistic approach to healing and health.
An important aspect of Ayurdevic natural healing is aromatherapy, which is the use of essential oils from medicinal plants for healing purposes. According to Ayurveda, plants are "receptacles of light." That is to say, they receive life energy from the sun, and therefore they can make whole that which has been damaged or which is incomplete. In Ayurveda, essential oils extracted from medicinal plants are used for therapeutic treatments because they provide the life energy necessary for natural healing.

The Ayurvedic healing approach is based on attaining balance and harmony between your body systems and your constitutions associated with the basic elements of air, fire, water, and ether (similar to the Five Elements of the Chinese medical system; for more information, visit my web page: Chinese Healing).

Ayurvedic aromatherapy is the use of daily massage or self-massaging of the body with different essential oils from medicinal plants to create the balance between your body systems and your specific constitutions. For example, the loose skin between your toes, the insides of your nostrils and your ears are all full of reflex areas that respond well to a few drops of diluted essential oils.

Aromatherapy can relax your muscles, and thus helping the disease symptoms of myasthenia gravis.

Stephen Lau  
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