Modern aromatherapy is a type of alternative medicine and a branch of clinical medicine. It studies the healing effects of volatile aromatic substances on the human body.
Many use aromatherapy for the prevention and treatment of a number of infectious diseases (acute respiratory infections, bronchitis, flu). Also it helps to get rid of neurosis, depression, stress, insomnia, relieves mental stress, headaches and eases other physical ailments.
Means of aromatherapy
The main means of aromatherapy are essential oils. They are extracted from essential oil plants in various ways, such as steam distillation, cold pressing, extraction with liquefied gas. The therapeutic effect of essential oils is due to the content of anti-infectious components (phenols, aldehydes, ketones, oxides, etc). That has antibacterial, antifungal, tonic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic and other properties. Essential oils are the “life-giving blood” of plants and the cornerstone of aromatherapy.
There are four main methods of using aromatherapy agents that affect the skin and respiratory system: aromatherapy baths, aroma massage, room aromatization, and phyto-essences inhalation (natural essential oils, not synthetic aromatic oils). In our case, this is the inhalation of healing vapors using a vaporizer, and not through a nebulizer.
Many considered vaporizers as one of the safest, healthy and most effective ways to receive aromatherapy herbs and plant extracts. This is due to the fact that vaporizers do not burn plant material, do not emit smoke and do not contain toxins harmful to human health. The only thing that produces such a wonderful device is pure and fragrant steam saturated with biologically active substances of plants.
The principle of operation of the vaporizer is based on the fact that plant material is placed in the heating chamber of the device, it is heated (thermal evaporation) to the required boiling point, after which the active substances begin to be extracted from the dried plants, which are converted into steam containing plant aromatic molecules, then the user simply inhales received healing steam. If phyto-essences heated and extracted, aromatic molecules begin to release immediately, without additional extraction.
With the advent of new innovative technologies, you can freely take phyto-inhalations using home vaporizers or on the go and outdoors using portable vaporizers.
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