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Advanced Aromatherapy - The Science of Essential Oil Therapy

Author: Kurt Schnaubelt, PH.D.
Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Healing Arts Press
Copyright: 1998
ISBN: 892817437
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Who Will Find This Book Essential?

Though it has been in print for some time (1999) this book is still invaluable. Kurt takes a shaman scientists view in applying Aromatherapy. Therefore the this book is more of a grounding in 'what' essential oils are and 'what' they are made of. Before anyone seriously begins practicing Aromatherapy seriously, read this book.

Easily red and accessible to the amateur aromatherapist, this is not a recipe book, but a strong grounding in safety and application.

Invaluable for the budding and professional Aromatherapist.

What's Inside

This information in this book is invaluable. Schnaubelt brings clear and logical authority to this explanation of the reasons why essential oils act on different systems of the body. This is aromatherapy's with grounding and understanding from its basic structures, based in scientific analysis and structured to produce predictable results. Essential for the serious student.

Schnaubelt presents sound research to demonstrate how essential oils interact with the different systems of the body. In a field where so many books are filled with unproven claims, outright falsehoods, and just plain fluff, Kurt Schnaubelt's books stand out as serious, well researched works that accord aromatherapy the respect it deserves. By focusing on the chemistry of essential oils, we learn *why* an essential oil works the way it does and how different chemotypes of the same EO can have vastly different effects (an important issue that is completely ignored by many

Other books by Schnaubelt

His book on Medical Aromatherapy Healing with Essential Oils is also worth read.

Table of Contents

1.0 A Challenge to Conventional Medicine

2.0 Essential Oils - Definitions and Distillation

3.0 The Effects of Essential Oils

4.0 Self-Treatment with Essential Oils

5.0 Choosing Essential Oils

6.0 Application of Essential Oils

Afterword

Endnotes

Resources

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