Reviewed by Rama Gaind.
Althea Press, $29.99
Are you looking for simple remedies for ailments? Then look no further than this Complete A-Z Reference of Essential Oils for Health and Healing.
The curative benefits of essential oils are effectively limitless. They can be put into action ‘without the aggravation, expenditure, and vexation that comes with taking prescription medicines or consulting doctors’.
You are in the position to take into your own hands, the power to heal. This is an easy-to-use guidebook for all of your everyday health needs.
It provides the surest path to natural health and healing with 15 facts that everyone should know about essential oils, clear descriptions of a range of topical and aromatic essential oil application techniques, with special features explaining how to diffuse, make a compress and offer healing massage.
It also has more than 170 common ailments covered and over 300 remedies you can make in your own home.
The profiles of 75 essential oils, each discussing medicinal uses, recommended application methods, other oils you can blend with, and precautions are a handy resource.
Learn about the simple, inexpensive ways you can benefit from peppermint, rosemary, lavender and orange oils. Treatments are featured for allergies, bloating, congestion, dry skin, flu, hives, infection, leg cramps, motion sickness, tension headache, toothache, varicose veins and so much more.
Instead of drug-based options, opt for practical herbal healing from home. If you have a headache, massage a drop of peppermint essential oil into your temples to ease the throbbing. If you have trouble sleeping, sprinkle some lavender oil on your pillowcase. Use eucalyptus oil for congestion. You can even use oils for ailments such as acne and warts.
Some sensible and natural remedies are accompanied by nature’s pharmacy of essential oils. There are also colour illustrations with sections on application methods, oil blends, what precautions to take and medicinal uses.
