Aromatherapy
1 : Boosting Immune Systems (Fight Infections)
Some essential oils contain antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and even anti-inflammatory properties, they are able to improve your immune system and also fight infections naturally, mostly in the form of combination therapy with modern treatments.
In most cases, an essential oil is said to have the ability to “boost” ones immune system by usually only augmenting one or two key areas.
For example, one essential oil can be antibacterial, but not antiviral.
One way these oils fight infection is to stimulate the production of white cells, which are akin to the soldiers of your immune system.
While other oils can encourage new cell growth to promote faster healing…
…Some oils even effectively destroy several fungal, viral and bacterial pathogens, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Helicobacter pylori and Candida albicans infections.
Best essential oils that can serve immune system boosting purpose are oregano, myrrh, ginger, lemon, eucalyptus, frankincense, peppermint and cinnamon.
2 : Relieving Body Aches & Pains
Pain is essential. It is an alarm system given out by your body, reminding you to fix something that went wrong in you. Imagine that you do not feel pain when your foot gets wounded, you will not tend to it, and eventually it will be infected and yea, say goodbye to your foot. This is a condition we call diabetic foot ulcer.
However, some pains are an overreaction of your body’s alarm system, and hence irritating and debilitating, both fibromyalgia and postherpetic neuralgia are typical examples of such pain.
This is where essential oils come into play. Essential oils reduce pain by reducing inflammation and pain-related cytokines (or you could call them “pain molecules”).
A personal favourite of mine is peppermint essential oil, it contains “menthol”, which acts as an antispasmodic and a mild analgesic, which helps to reduce pain, pressure and tension, this is a gospel to many of us who suffer from frequent muscle aches.
Lavender essential oil contains mildly but active sedative compounds that has been used for pain and pressure relief for centuries. It also contains anti-inflammatory and analgesic property when used topically. Basically, besides taking away the “pain molecules”, it stimulates the production of “happy molecules” – dopamine in your brain.
In summary, the best essential oils for relieving aches and pains are lavender, peppermint, eucalyptus, chamomile, rosemary, majoram, thyme, frankincense, turmeric, ginger and myrrh.
Read here if you want a complete list of essential oils that can relief pain, pressure and/or tension.
3 : Improving Skin Care
Acne is really a bummer. Acne is generally caused by clogged pores trapping sebum in the pores, hence providing both anaerobic environment and food source for the bacteria Proprionibacterium.
With the antibacterial and anti anti-inflammatory benefits many essential oils possess, coupled with their superiority in regulating oil production and reducing acne breakouts, acne can be easily controlled. Some also help improve skin elasticity and tighten skin, reducing appearance of wrinkles.
Besides that, some oils promote blood circulation to the applied area, which helps to heal bruises, burns, cuts, broken capillaries, ringworm, eczema and other skin conditions.
But remember, everyone’s skin is different, always consult a dermatologist before applying any of the essential oils onto your skin or wound.
Click here for In-depth knowledge on what essential oils are best for skincare.
The best essential oils for skin care are frankincense, geranium, lavender, rose, tea tree and ylang ylang.
4 : Improving Hair Growth
There are many reasons to why you are not growing thicker hair like you wanted, or worse, you’re losing hair!
It could be caused by physical & emotional stress, hormonal imbalance, harmful chemicals, insufficient vitamins, allergies, heredity and more.
Different oils have different properties that tackle the different mechanism of hair loss.
Take the lemongrass essential oil as an example, a 2015 study shows that applying it onto your scalp for a week continuously can significantly decrease dandruff.
Lavender essential oil contain amazing hair growth stimulant, a 4-week experiment was done on mice using lavender oil, and the result was that those mice had significantly increased hair follicle growth than the others.
The best essential oils for hair growth are lavender, lemongrass, peppermint, rosemary and cedarwood.
5 : Supporting Digestion
A good digestion is the cornerstone to good health. Do you know that certain part of your guts are responsible for certain breakdown or absorption of different nutrients? For example, terminal ileum is where iron is absorbed, with the help of a cofactor (a type of protein).
It is important to note that, digestive problems are not illnesses, they are symptoms of underlying conditions, sometimes chronic even.
Common gastrointestinal symptoms that might bug you are constipation, diarrhea, vomiting, heartburn, stomach spasms and other similar symptoms.
Essential oils help by regulating digestion, so that your digestive system becomes more efficient in breaking down and absorbing the fat, protein and other important nutrients.
Ginger essential oil is highly recommended due to its anti-spasmodic properties, while at the same time soothe your intestinal linings. It also has carminative effect, which helps you release any gas out of your body. Ginger is also a proven remedy for nausea and vomiting in pregnancy.
The best essential oils to support digestions are ginger, peppermint, fennel, cardamom and spearmint.
6 : Reducing Emotional Stress & Anxiety Level
Essential oils are most commonly used to reduce emotional stress and anxiety.
Pure essential oils, given their oil-based property, can easily cross the blood-brain barrier to tap into the power of the brain. You usually feel it quickly (within minutes). Unlike amphetamine that floods your brain with dopamine and hence causing addiction, the calming effect of essential oils is very long-lasting, resulting in a relaxed and healthy body.
In other words, these go without the harmful side effects of synthetic medications, such as sleeping pills.
Lavender essential oil is the one when it comes to incredible soothing and calming effect. It helps in calming your nerves by aiding sleep, restlessness, and general tensions.
A study in 2014 involving 82 elderly participants with symptoms of anxiety and depression, has found that after 4 weeks of essential oil treatments, their negative emotions (anxiety, stress and depression) had significantly reduced.
The best essential oils for relieving emotional stress and anxiety are lavender, rose, ylang ylang, bergamot and chamomile.
7 : Relieving Headaches & Migraines
According to World Health Organisation, almost 75% of adults aged from 18 to 65 around the World have had a headache in the past one year, and among those, 30% or more have reported migraine, a crippling form of headache.
Essential oils play a primary role here because it treats headaches to the root cause, without the ugly side effects that painkiller gives you, such as kidney and liver damages.
Headaches can be caused by hormonal imbalances, stress, intensive physical exertion, sinus pressure, allergies, or even certain food consumption.
These are the things where essential oil can help with, for example, peppermint oil can help muscle contractions and also stimulate blood flow in the forehead when applied.
Whereas lavender oil helps with relaxation, it’s a very effective sedative and calming agent, very useful in relieving tensions and stress.
The best essential oils to reduce headache are lavender, peppermint, ginger, rosemary and eucalyptus.
8 : Helping To Sleep Better
Sleep is one of the most important part of a human life.
A quality sleep time can help you stay energized throughout the day and improve health and even productivity.
Essential oil can be used to help sleeping in two ways. Firstly, you prevent insomnia by calming your mind and reducing anxiety. Secondly, you prevent harmful sleeping habit such as snoring and sleep apnea by clearing your airways.
The right essential oils provide not just the flowery scent that calms your mind, but also the soothing effect to relax your muscle and nerves. All of which contributes towards a high quality sleep.
A better way to leverage essential oil for sleep is to make an essential oil blend, this will improve your sleep quality even more than what a single oil would do.
The best essential oil you can blend together is lavender, ylang ylang, cedarwood and roman chamomile.
9 : Detoxifying Your Body
We are never free from potential pollutants in our everyday lives. The food you eat, the air you breathe in, the water you drink, the things you touch, not one of them is clean.
Essential oils in this case, can serve as effective diuretics, increasing our urine production, thus speeding up the excretion of waste materials in our body.
According to NCBI, some plants are also able to boost the detoxification function of the liver. This is done on the grounds of the hepatoprotective (liver-protecting) and antioxidising properties of those plants.
Also, due to the antiseptic properties of some essential oils, when in contact with harmful pathogens, can dismantle the pathogens and thus detoxifying the environment around us. This is especially true when science
The best essential oils for detoxifying your body internally and externally are lemon, lavender, rosemary, grapefruit and peppermint.
10 : Improving Brain Functions
Everybody wants to be smarter, every single second of the day.
You too, right?
And yes, essential oils can do just that…
…the right oil can help you clear your mind, maintain clarity, provide creativity and more positive effects to the brain.
Essential oils have neuroprotective effects, meaning, they can slow down the degeneration of your brain cells. This amazing property translates into preventing or complementing the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s dementia, vascular dementia, Parkinsonism and the like.
Also, on a smaller scale, essential oils are able to improve cognitive functions, such as memory and attention, even in those who are not at risk for developing dementia.
For instance, a main compound found in rosemary called “Eucalyptol”, can enhance the brain’s ability to absorb and retain information. You will notice things like improved memory and mental alertness.
Lemon essential oil, on the other hand, can boost your ability to stay focused for an extended period of time, this will help you become more time efficient in your studies or work.
The best essential oils for improving brain function are peppermint, rosemary, lavender and lemon.
11 : Boosting Energy Level
…Are you regularly getting a 3rd cup of coffee just in the morning itself?
…Are you having trouble getting out of bed?
…Are you feeling sluggish everyday?
Put aside caffeine and medications, use Essential oils instead!
Essential oils can directly influence areas of the brain that control feelings of fatigue and stress, either by inhaling or applied topically. You’re able to shift your mood at the physiological level, helping you to feel more awake, focused, and prepared to rock your day.
Citrus-based essential oils can enhance your energy level by stimulating the area of brain that promotes happiness and producing a more uplifting feeling.
Peppermint and spearmint works the same way as they promote deep breathing, which helps you oxygenate the brain and improves your alertness.
The best essential oils for boosting energy level is lemon, orange, peppermint, spearmint and cinnamon.
12 : Balancing Hormone Level
Hormonal imbalance can cause us a lot of issues, such as mood swings, rage, anxiety, fatigue, sad, depressed, even worse, suicidal.
Essential oils are not supposed to be the only treatment, but they act like a support to our body’s control center, the hypothalamus, a region in the brain that produces, releases and regulates hormones.
By balancing hormone levels such as estrogen, progesterone, cortisol, thyroid and testosterone levels, the hypothalamus is very important to our daily physiological functions, like, body temperature, thirst, hunger, sleep, mood, even sex drive.
For ladies, oils like clary sage, geranium and thyme helps in balancing estrogen and progesterone levels, which greatly improves fertility and help conditions like PCOS and PMS.
Peppermint oil, on the other hand, can affect mood hormones such as serotonin and neuropeptides, improving your mind clarity.
The best essential oils for balancing hormone levels are frankincense, clary sage, rosemary, peppermint, ylang ylang and lavender.
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