Historical past
The usage of important oils for therapeutic, religious, hygienic and ritualistic functions goes again to plenty of historical civilizations together with the Chinese language, Indians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans who used them in cosmetics, perfumes and medicines.
Oils are described by Dioscorides, together with beliefs of the time concerning their therapeutic properties, in his De Materia Medica, written within the first century. Distilled important oils have been employed as medicines because the invention of distillation within the eleventh century, when Avicenna remoted important oils utilizing steam distillation.
The idea of aromatherapy was first mooted by a small variety of European scientists and docs, in about 1907. In 1937, the phrase first appeared in print in a French e-book on the topic: Aromathérapie: Les Huiles Essentielles, Hormones Végétales by René-Maurice Gattefossé, a chemist. An English model was printed in 1993. In 1910, Gattefossé burned a hand very badly and later claimed he handled it successfully with lavender oil.
A French surgeon, Jean Valnet, pioneered the medicinal makes use of of important oils, which he used as antiseptics within the remedy of wounded troopers throughout World War II.
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