essential oils and hormones?????/

[First Name Last Name]

Hi All,

Just to let you all know that I am sorting my oils/hormones and all that stuff out now.

thanks to all who replied, it helped get my mind on the right path.

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[jusme]

Found this on the net:
Aromatherapy Use and Effects
In the upper realm of control of our body, moods, and state of balance, is our limbic system and hormones. Our hormones are produced in response to our perceptions. In psycho-somatic Aromatherapy (Aromachology), the aromatic properties of aromatic phytochemicals are used to: alter perception and therefore emotion and our hormonal balance, or, to facilitate emotional responses by directly stimulating the release of minute amounts of hormones. With our hormones and emotions/perception in balance, we experience wellness and/or a remission of psycho-somatic and nervous system related dis-ease. Therefore, you can find Aromatherapy effectively treating such varied functions as mood, emotion, co-dependent behaviors, sex, appetite, body temperature, digestion, blood pressure, the immune system, etc.

and also this:

Aromatherapy is the ancient practice of using essential oils extracted from plants to soothe imbalance of body, mind, spirit and emotions. In modern times we find that these highly concentrated "plant hormones" can have an effect on our organs, hormones and enzymes, a physiological effect on muscles, joints, and skin, and a psychological effect on elevating mood, sleep patterns, and reducing stress.

Don't know if this helps.....I think your teacher wants to know what the oils can do, in a same way that our hormonesdo ie.allevate our feelings, pains, mood etc

 

[Eic]

Thanks Amaris,
I was struggling to get my head around what she wants from this question.
I did phone her and said I was confused by the wording of the question. (I think she has had lessons from ITEC)
She replied: keep it simple, direction through body, targets hit etc'
Now I'm even more confused.
Sounds like she just wants it to be like : inhalation, respiration, lungs, blood stream on to the brain????
What do you think about that then?
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[FAISALWAD]

think about the endocrine system........adrenal glands, ovaries etc,then the hormones that are related to them and essential oils that have the same properties,work in the same way.HTH jane

 

[Linus Upp]

Well for example hormones and essential oils bothcan alter perception and therefore emotion and our hormonal balance, or, to facilitate emotional responses.....

 

[shereif]

Hi All
Thanks for the input, now that I have had my second class, (monday evening) I am just starting to get an aromatherapy head on.
I think possibly, because I missed out on the first 2-3? classes, my head just did'nt understand what was being requested.
The last course i did was 2004 and that was the a+p holistic massage, I was still thinking along those lines and I suppose the vagueness of the way the home work was put to me put me off balance.
I don't really know much about essential oils yet, have just started writing them all up (ITEC format)
But I love this site and the way everyone is so friendly and nice.
This week I am getting to grips with the extraction methods, this is going great guns, I am really starting to get into it now.
Also been told we might as well do some blending homework this week. No suggested format for that, so I have found some good info on the net and in my books, i will just put as much as I can about blending in.
I think it will all come together fine in the end.
Does anyone else have vague instructions given to themby their tutors.
I feel sure thinking back over my last course, it must be an ITEC thingy.
I'll be back in touch soon, thanks all for the help and reassurance.

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