Intro to Essential Oils

What is the hype over essential oils? How come everyone is talking about them and do they even work?
Essential oils are a concentrated extract version of the natural oils that already exists within plants. These oils are extracted from plants via distillation. Distillation is most commonly done by steam or water, where many parts of the plants are being used, including the plant roots, leaves, stems, flowers, or bark.
The therapeutic quality of essential oils has recently been discovered in the Western world and commodified to be marketable as people have just now discovered the positive outcome of essential oil use. Essential oils have been used throughout history in many cultures for their medicinal and therapeutic benefits.
While the oils are still in the plant, they provide the plants with protection against predators and disease, and also play a role in plant pollination. As these properties carry forward into the essential oils, folk medicine since ancient times has made use of essential oils in medicinal practices.
The knowledge of holistic medicine, natural healing and integration of essential oils in modern healthcare is also widely used today. Modern scientific studies and trends lean again towards more holistic approaches to wellness and a revival of essential oils for physical and psychological health and well-being applications. In hospitals today, essential oils are diffused and used to treat anxiety, pain, etc in patients and aid in their healing process. 
The most common therapeutic application of essential oils is  aromatherapy, where healing effects are achieved through the aromas of the essential oils. Many essential oils are believed to have an uplifting effect on the human’s mind; and many essential oils also have antiseptic properties, which means they reduce the possibility of infection when applied to the human skin.

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