Aromatherapy is a holistic healing modality involving the controlled therapeutic use of odoriferous substances obtained from flowers and plants to maintain and promote physical, psychological and spiritual well-being. These odoriferous substances are used to provide different healing properties, such as, balancing effects on the nervous and hormonal systems, improving the function of bodily systems, etc.
It has been used throughout history in the traditional medical practices of the world’s greatest civilizations. These days, Aromatherapy is widely accepted by orthodox and complementary practitioners as one of the most comprehensive of the natural therapies. It has been used extensively in the treatment of stress-related disorders through the proper application of essential oils to the body via various suitable channels of delivery, such as, bath, massage, inhalation, etc, to achieve a rebalancing of the mind-body complex.
