Page 20 - Seniorstoday May 2022 Issue
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Cover Story - Wellness
Have a cool(er) summer
with these oils
Deepa Desa suggests some essential oils to cool you down from the
scorching temperatures
As I get older, my relationship with the momentum. Aromatherapy is one of the
heat has morphed inversely; to an extent complementary therapies which use
that I actually put off daytime errands due essential oils as the major therapeutic
to paranoia of the heat. If you resonate agents to treat several diseases. The
with my predicament, you would already essential or volatile oils are extracted from
be having a list in place of the things you the flowers, barks, stem, leaves, roots, fruits
need to do to help you through summer. and other parts of the plant by various
Fortunately, being an aromatherapist has methods. It came into existence after the
led me to make use of a few essential oils scientists deciphered the antiseptic and
that both revive and cool me – mind, body skin permeability properties of essential
and soul, through our hot summer months. oils. Inhalation, local application and
I agree. Oil and summer seem as baths are the major methods used in
implausible as eating ice-cream while it’s aromatherapy that utilize these oils to
snowing! But you see, an essential oil is not penetrate the human skin surface with
an oil technically. It is the pure water-based marked aura. Once the oils are in the
extract of plants. system, they remodulate themselves
and work in a friendly manner at the
A bit about Aromatherapy site of malfunction or at the affected
Nowadays, use of alternative and area. This type of therapy utilizes
complementary therapies with various permutation and combinations
ainstream medicine has gained the to get relief from numerous ailments
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