Aromatherapy is currently listed as an adjuvant therapy in most countries, but Britain, France and Australia bring aromatherapy into the medical category and cooperate with drug therapy to make the body recover faster. The charm of essential oil lies in its fragrant and charming smell, which not only makes people feel happy, but also has its magical medical effect, and is also a good recipe for health care and beauty.

There are many ways to use essential oils, which can be changed according to individual needs, characteristics of different essential oils and medical effects to be achieved. However, it is necessary to understand the taboo of essential oil use, so as not to cause regret. In particular, many essential oils contain toxic ketones, which have always been taboo for pregnant women and babies and are not suitable for long-term high-dose use. Generally speaking, the use of essential oil is mainly divided into external use and internal use. Whether it is for oral use or external use, you must know the characteristics of each essential oil in advance and use it carefully, including dosage, use time, use place and mixed use of different essential oils. Almost all essential oil experts disapprove of beginners taking essential oil orally, and they must go through professional guidance to take it orally. In case of poor health, illness and special circumstances, such as pregnancy, you must be extra vigilant when using essential oil, and you must know the characteristics of the essential oil to be used, because some essential oils are not suitable for hypertension, pregnancy, heart disease, epilepsy, diabetes, infants or children under six years old.

How to use essential oil safely, you must pay attention to the following points when using essential oil:

1. Before using the new essential oil, it is best to have a skin test to avoid allergies.

Simple skin test method:

Add a drop of essential oil (diluted with 1%) to 10ml base oil, and apply it on elbow bend or inside wrist, and leave it on skin for 24 hours without washing off. If there is no redness or irritation, this essential oil is acceptable. Only six kinds of essential oils can be tested at a time, but it is necessary to record what essential oils are applied where to determine which one is suitable. .

2. Essential oil must be diluted before use. Essential oils cannot be directly applied to the skin (at present, only lavender or tea tree is considered to be safe for direct use), and can only be diluted with base oil and applied to the skin.

Don't take any essential oil orally unless you have considerable knowledge and get the advice of an experienced aromatherapy expert or doctor.

4. There is a wound, infection, inflammation, venous tumor, skin abrasion and rupture on the skin, and you can't massage with essential oil.

5. When you have a high fever, don't massage your body with essential oil. It is more appropriate to apply it (that is, drop a few drops of essential oil on the towel for fetching water).

6. Some essential oils are optically active, in other words, they will make the skin more sensitive in the sun, so it takes at least one hour to get in touch with the sun after using these essential oils. This kind of essential oil with strong optical rotation is mainly citrus essential oil, which is the most common.

7. Because essential oil molecules are extremely small, it is easy to penetrate into the body through the skin, so massage with essential oil can get good results, but pregnant women and babies had better know the characteristics of essential oil before using it.

8. It is best not to use the same essential oil every day, but to use several different essential oils alternately, preferably once every two weeks.

Absolute attention rule-essential oil and eyes

It is common sense that essential oil can't touch eyes even after dilution. But what if the essential oil accidentally drops into your eyes? Remember, never rinse with water, it will only make the situation worse. The best way is to wash it with pure plant essential oils such as almond oil, olive oil or sunflower seed oil as soon as possible. If you have too much essential oil in your eyes, or if your eyes feel persistent or severe pain, you must contact your doctor or emergency center as soon as possible.

As for the treatment of infectious diseases such as conjunctivitis, you can choose to apply eyes. Especially when you sleep at night, you can use chamomile tea bags and put them on your eyes after cooling. Because eye infectious diseases are highly contagious, patients' eyes can easily infect each other and others. Therefore, patients and others must pay special attention to hand washing, eye washing and cleaning of instruments used by patients, as well as cleaning and disinfection.

Essential oil therapy has now become a good helper for the public to improve their lives, pursue natural health and transform their bodies and minds. However, you may have noticed that many methods of using essential oils are marked as "forbidden for pregnant women", and even lavender essential oil, which has the least irritation to the skin, is forbidden for pregnant women. Pregnant women seem to have nothing to do with essential oils.

In fact, one of the reasons is that high-purity essential oil is slightly toxic, which will not cause serious harm to ordinary people, but it is dangerous for pregnant women and fetuses who are sensitive to metabolic system and absorption system.

For example, some essential oils have the function of "regulating menstruation", which can reduce the discomfort and side effects caused by menstruation for ordinary women and make menstruation smoother, but if pregnant women use them, there is a risk of miscarriage.

However, not all essential oils are "high-risk groups". Some essential oils can even help pregnant women, and pregnant women can even use these essential oils to relieve nausea, back pain, edema of feet and ankles during pregnancy.

List of essential oils unsuitable for pregnant women:

Lavender, basil, hyssop, jasmine, juniper, camphor tree, Daphne odora, marjoram, myrrh, cedar, rose, rosemary, thyme, wormwood, arnica, birch, sage, cypress, mint, holly and other toxic essential oils. These are essential oils that should not be used during pregnancy for your reference.

Misunderstanding of using essential oil

Myth 1: Essential oils are just beauty and skin care products.

Many consumers think that essential oil is just a pure natural skin care or body care product, which can whiten, wrinkle, lose weight, breast enhancement and so on.

But in fact, the efficacy of essential oil can be far more than that! Essential oils help the skin from the inside out, from mental health to physical health, and then to the health and beauty of the skin, which is beyond the reach of any expensive skin care products.

Myth 2: Essential oils cannot be used during physiological period.

Teacher Jin Yunrong corrected the mistake: In fact, aromatic essential oil plays a very significant role in skin conditioning and mental relaxation during physiological period, because essential oil can not only regulate the discomfort of organs, but also take care of emotional problems.

For example, essential oils such as cypress, geranium and ginger are very good for the recuperation of physiological period. In view of several common symptoms, the formula of essential oil is as follows: dull skin color, irregular physiological period: rose+cypress+geranium pale skin color, decreased menstrual flow: perilla+cypress+geranium dry skin, severe dysmenorrhea: lavender+ginger+rosemary.

Myth 3: Oral essential oil is more effective for beauty.

Not only can you not take essential oil orally, but you can't use pure essential oils directly. Because of its high concentration, pure essential oils is absolutely not allowed to directly touch the skin (except tea tree and lavender essential oil), and can only be used after dilution.

Therefore, the essential oil for massage or maintenance must be diluted compound essential oil, which can be directly used on the skin.

Myth 4: Essential oil can be used in face cream.

If you take the initiative to add essential oil to the cream, the consequence is that a good cream will go bad!

Oil-water separation It tastes wrong!

What is the reason? The problem lies in the cream, because the essential oil is purely natural and plant-based, and it will react when it encounters chemical synthetic substances or artificial flavors, resulting in the above phenomenon. Therefore, it is necessary to choose cream products that are also natural ingredients when self-blending.

Myth 5: The more frequency and dosage of essential oil, the better.

Teacher Jin Yunrong Corrects Mistakes People who like essential oils often make such beautiful mistakes, and using too much essential oil on themselves is actually counterproductive.

Essential oil is a pure natural substance. Because of the high concentration, even if diluted, the denser the better. Proper use will make essential oil play a good role, and too much will burden the kidneys and make the body feel uncomfortable.

Myth # 6: Essential oil contains hormones, which will cause a sense of dependence when used frequently.

Essential oil is a pure plant essence without any additives, which is different from drugs or hormones and will not produce addiction or skin dependence. Because its function is to stimulate the individual's own potential and potential, not to replace the function.

The components of essential oil usually include alcohol, aldehyde, ester, ketone, oxide, phenol and other basic chemical elements, and each chemical element reacts and functions in a specific way, thus determining the efficacy of essential oil.

Myth 7: Aromatherapy essential oil does not touch the skin, so you can use cheap essential oil.

The fragrance of essential oil is as important for regulating mood as the effect of essential oil on organs after it enters the human body. So don't mistake the essential oil for indoor aromatherapy as long as it smells fragrant, and choose those cheap and inferior products.

Cheap essential oils are usually chemically synthesized. The simulated "fragrance" of this chemical component will stimulate the nervous system, causing dizziness, chest tightness and even nausea and vomiting, which is not only beneficial to the body and mind, but also harmful to the human body.

Myth 8: Essential oil can be DIY at home.

In the actual use of essential oil, people are often troubled by their ignorance of essential oil knowledge.

For example: 5% rose essential oil is directly applied to the skin to cause sensitivity; Lavender is used to improve sleep, but excessive use of lavender actually belongs to the category of aromatherapy. Although there are no absolute taboos on essential oils used in aromatherapy, there are problems in the blending of essential oils, such as suitability and unsuitability, perfection and imperfection. Therefore, girls who like DIY essential oils need to contact professional aromatherapy academic institutions for study.

Matters needing attention in using essential oil

1, be sure to use pure essential oils. Essential oil mixed with impurities or chemical essence can cause skin inflammation and damage mucosal tissue. Before using new essential oils, it is best to

Do a skin test to avoid allergies. Simple skin test method: add a drop of essential oil (diluted with 1%) to 10ml base oil and apply it behind the ear, elbow or elbow.

Wrist, and stay on the skin for 24 hours without washing off. If there is no redness and irritation, this essential oil is acceptable.

2. Essential oil cannot be directly applied to the skin (at present, only lavender or tea tree is considered to be safe for direct use), and it must be diluted with base oil before use.

On the skin. When diluting essential oil, please use glass and ceramics instead of plastic products to avoid corrosion and chemical changes. In addition, the container must be free of any impurities.

Moisture, even a drop of water will destroy the quality of essential oil.

3, do not use more than the prescribed amount of essential oil, the lower the dose of essential oil, the better the use effect, usually the concentration of facial oil is 1-2%, body oil is 2-3%, and in

For home use, a bathtub does not exceed 8 drops of essential oil and a washbasin does not exceed 3 drops. Inhaling too much essential oil can cause dizziness, headache and nausea. 1 ml essential oil

There are about 20 drops, so 5ml of base oil plus 1 drop of essential oil is the concentration of 1%, and so on.

4. Citrus essential oils, such as bergamot and lemon. There will be phototoxic reaction. Avoid sunlight after use, or you will get sunburned or cause melanin precipitation. Suggest doing it at night

Yes, I can clean it up early the next morning, but don't worry too much. Like the most sensitive bergamot, if diluted below 1%, the phototoxicity will be very weak.

It has no effect on skin.

5. Essential oil must be kept in dark glass bottles, sealed and placed in a cool place, away from sunlight and heat sources. The life of general essential oil is 1-3 years, please wait until it is effective.

Used during the period. It is best not to use the same essential oil for a long time, because the curative effect will be discounted after the body produces inertia to the essential oil, so it is best to choose other essences with similar functions.

Oil is used alternately. Generally speaking, each formula can be used continuously for no more than 2 weeks.

6. See a doctor when you are sick. Essential oils cannot replace medicines. No essential oil can be taken orally without the guidance of a professional aromatherapist. Or touch some sensitive parts of the body, such as the eyes.

Department and around the eyes. If you accidentally get into your eyes, you should immediately wash your eyes with plenty of water and seek medical advice.

7. Essential oils should be kept out of the reach of children.

8. Special population:

1) Children: The essential oils available for children aged 0-6 include rose, chamomile and lavender, and for children aged 6- 12, general essential oils can be used, but basil should not be used. The dosage for children should be low, and adults should only use12.

2) Pregnant women: hormones or menstrual essential oils should not be used, such as mint (it can be replaced by safe spearmint, and incense or direct inhalation can relieve morning sickness), sage, fennel, basil, clove, hyssop, thyme, jasmine, rose, rosemary, juniper, marjoram and myrrh.

3) Patients with liver disease are forbidden to use cinnamon, cinnamon, fennel, basil, clove and laurel.

4) People with diabetes are forbidden to use angelica dahurica, which will increase the sugar in urine.

5) Asthmatic patients had better avoid inhaling steam to avoid getting sick.

6) Don't use juniper for patients with kidney disease.

7) Patients with hypertension should avoid using rosemary, sagebrush, hyssop and thyme.

8) Patients with epilepsy should be careful when using essential oils, because many kinds of essential oils can cause diseases, such as sage, sagebrush, fennel, hyssop, rosemary and so on.

Very low rosemary can calm epilepsy.

9) People with low blood pressure should not use lavender essential oil, which may lead to dullness.