DID YOU KNOW??? Medicinally, essential oils prevailed until the days of modern medicine and antibiotics. Yellow fever was treated with sandalwood and thyme, typhoid fever with cinnamon, and TB with lavender. Around the middle of the nineteenth century these oils became more used for perfume and cosmetics. In 1869, the first synthetic fragrance, coumarin, was created. This man-made fragrance, and the ones that soon followed, were unsuitable for medicinal purposes, however. Essential oils were slowly replaced by synthetic chemicals in most medicines and perfumes because they were cheaper to make. By the twentieth century, the natural beauty of essential oils, not to mention their healing power, were all but forgotten. People today are taking a much deeper interest in the natural, or holistic, approach to medicine. Staying away from synthetics and trying to find a more pure form of emotional and physical healing has brought aromatherapy to the forefront of many hearts and minds.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:32:35 +0000