Aromatherapy for Health Professionals
Shirley Price Cert Ed, FIAM, FISPA, Hon MIFPA and Len Price Cert Ed, MIT, FIAM, FISPA, Hon MIFPA are founders of the International Federation of Aromatherapy, Fellows of the Institute of Aromatic Medicine and honorary members of the International Federation of Professional Aromatherapy.
The new edition of this highly successful book provides a clear and authoritative in-depth study of aromatherapy as practised in modern health care settings. It gives valuable information for any health professional wishing to develop their understanding of the subject, providing the detailed knowledge needed to use essential oils in clinical practice.
New Features
- Fully revised and updated discussions throughout, including 24 further essential oil profiles added for this edition.
- Updated information on health and safely provides crucial details on safeguarding both the practitioner and the client.
- Additional references and new research have been added to this edition, as well as updated and revised tables.
- New illustrations make key points easier to understand.
- Chapters on carrier oils and essential waters have been updated and expanded.
- The touch and massage chapter has been thoroughly revised.
- Extensively revised index includes essential oil properties and indications.
Table of Contents
SECTION 1 Essential oil science
The genesis of essential oils — Chemistry of essential oils — (Part I) Quality and safety — (Part II) Power and hazards — Traditional use, modern research
SECTION 2 The foundations of practice
How essential oils enter the body — Hydrolats — the essential waters — Touch and massage — Aromas, mind and body — Aromatic medicine
SECTION 3 Aromatherapy in context
Aromatherapy and primary health care — Stress, including critical care — Pregnancy and childbirth — Learning disabilities and autism — Care of the elderly, with particular reference to dementia — Palliative and supportive care
SECTION 4 Policy and practice
(Part I) Aromatherapy in the UK — (Part II) Aromatherapy within the National Health Service — Aromatherapy worldwide
Appendices, Glossary and Useful address
Appendix A
(Part I) Essential oils for general use in health-care settings — (Part II) Indications for uses of essential oils
Appendix B
Uterotonic oils which facilitate delivery — Emmenagogic essential oils — Disputed emmenagogic oils — Toxic, neurotoxic and abortive oils not used in aromatherapy — Neurotoxic and/or abortive oils occasionally used in aromatherapy — Potential skin irritant oils — Phototoxic oils — Contact-sensitizing oils — General properties of essential oils
Appendix C
Occupational Health and Safety
Appendix D
Essential oil: definition for aromatherapeutic purposes
References to Appendices
Sources to Appendices
Glossary
Useful addresses
ISBN 978 0 4431 0134 2 576 pages Churchill Livingstone