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Essential Oil Safety: A Guide for Health Care Professionals


Authors: Robert Tisserand and Tony Blacas
Hardcover: 279 pages
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Copyright: 1995
ISBN: 0443052603

 

 

 

Who Will Find This Book Essential?

Essential safety guidelines for practitioners, retailers and consumers. If you work with essential oils in any continuous therapeutic way this book is a must.

 

What's Inside?

Practical applicable guidelines for safe application of essential oils for health care professionals. Targeting topics like toxicity, skin sensitivity, packaging issues, effects on the internal organs, oral ingestion, poisoning. This book setting the benchmark for Children safety, cancer safety and pregnancy safety with essential oils.

 

The Back Cover

The safe use of essential oils is of key importance in the practice of aromatherapy. Based on up-to-date research findings, this practical, comprehensive guide gives:

  • detailed profiles of 95 essential oils, including constituents, hazards, dosage, toxicity data and contraindications
  • brief safety profiles of 311 essential oils and 135 essential oil components
  • safety guidelines for practitioners, retailers and consumers
  • details of essential oil absorption, metabolism and excretion
  • description of essential oil toxicity with regards to the skin, mucous membrane, the central nervous system, and the major organs.
  • essential oils which may react adversely with certain drugs
  • cautions and contraindications for the therapeutic use of essential oils by all methods of administration
  • cases of poisoning from essential oil ingestion
  • guidelines on the safe and appropriate administration of essential oils in pregnancy, cancer, epilepsy, heart disease and many other conditions
  • extensive references throughout the text in addition to a separate reference section.

Essential Oil Safety is written for everyone who needs to be thoroughly familiar with the appropriate and safe use of essential oils in therapy, whether researchers, pharmacists, nurses, clinicians, aromatherapists or retailers.

Robert Tisserand is the Principal of the Tisserand Institute, Hove, UK.

Tony Balacs is a Lecturer in essential oil science at the Tisserand Institute.

 

Contents by Chapter

Forward

Preface

Acknowledgements

Important notices

Notes

  1. Introduction
  2. Basics
  3. Administration
  4. Metabolism
  5. Toxicity
  6. Tissues, organs, systems
  7. The skin
  8. Cancer
  9. Reproduction
  10. Profiles
  11. Chemical index
  12. Safety index
  13. Cautions and contraindications
  14. Safety guidelines

Glossary

Abbreviations

References

Recommended reading

Botanical index

General index

 

 

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Essential Oil Safety: A Guide for Health Care Professionals
by Robert Tisserand and Tony Blacas

Available in Hardcover

 

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