Unlike most modern medicines Aromatherapy acts holistically, that is, it combines both physical and mental aspects of healing. Most modern medicines have side effects that weaken one part of the body while trying to strengthen another. Through the use of essential oils you strengthen many parts of the body at once. For example chamomile is an antiseptic, a cell rejuvenator and it soothes the emotional effects to the nervous system by calming and relaxing you!

The term Aromatherapy, or to be specific Aromatherapie, was coined in 1937 by French chemist Renee Maurice Gattefosse. One day, while conducting an experiment in his lab, Maurice burned his hand and quickly jammed it into the closest bottle of liquid , which as luck would have it was lavender oil. His hand healed quickly with no blistering or    scarring. This triggered what become a life long interest in the healing properties of plants, "aromatherapie" as he called it.

This aside Aromatherapy as a practice dates back into our early history, to the Egyptians. The Greeks too knew of Aromatherapy. "The Father of Modern Medicine," Hippocrates taught the health enhancing joys of aromatics to his pupils.So, though the science of Aromatherapy is modern- the knowledge of the benefits of our aromatic friends the plants has been around for centuries.