Not all people know the relevance of essential oils in our body nor the benefits of essential oils especially on its relaxing power. Generally, essential oil are distilled liquid by water or steam from different flowers, leaves, bark, stems, roots and all other elements of plants. A lot of people would mistakenly think that essential oils are oily when in fact, it’s not, most of them are clear.

Our body and essential oils interact in numerous ways. First, it gets to our skin where it is being absorbed. It breaks into our epithelial tissues which includes our skin, nasal passages, bronchioles, lungs and gastro-intestinal tract.
Second stage would be about penetration of these essential oils to internal tissues of our body which is 400 times more rapidly than that of water. Once it gets absorbed, the essential oils rapidly enter into our lymphatic and blood capillary systems which start the general circulation. We must bear in mind that nothing really stays in the body very long. Since aromatherapy oils are volatile, it often leaves our body in about 48 hours.
Third stage is the elimination procedure. Some essential oils are relaeased by the surface of the lungs as vapors. The components of these essential oils are excreted by the liver, stored briefly in our gall bladder, and then dumped into our intestinal tract.

When we smell these essential oils, its vapor stimulates small hair-like extensions of our olfactory nerve and such nerve is the unique one in the human body which is in contact with the external environment that goes straight to our brain. The rest of our senses has several nerves and synaptic junctions even before these impulses reach our brain. This is very crucial in the processing of our reactions to different emotions, appetites, desires as well as memories. It is by this very reason why aroma oils or essential oils have such deep impact, not just on our moods and reactions, but on our overall “being” that with even a light dose is enough to create such sensations.


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