Aromatherapy Basics – How It Came To Be And Its Numerous Benefits And Applications

Aromatherapy, which uses essential oils and herbs, have long been used to help a person recover from a myriad of health issues. It is a time-tested practice and earliest records of its use can go as far as six millennia ago. Frankincense essential oils for example were extensively used by Ancient Egyptians and Greeks to deepen the breath and still the mind. The smoke coming from burning the hardened resin were also thought to have antiseptic qualities and were popularly used then to ‘cleanse’ homes and places of worship.