Aromatherapy Books

Aromatherapy - A Guide for Home Use by Christine Westwood. A best-selling beginners guide to the Art and Science of Aromatherapy. Includes sections on the individual oils and easy reference ailment index. All you need to know to enjoy health and psychological benefits available from the use of pure essential oils.

Aromatherapy Lexicon - The Essential Reference by Geoff Lyth & Sue Charles. An informative Lexicon remarkable for its simplicity and making aromatherapy easy. The authors have combined their talent and years of experience to make essential oil therapy available to everyone at the touch of a wheel. This form of reference will give endless pleasure to beginners as well as practised aromatherapists.

Aromatherapy - A Nurses Guide. An authoritative book, written by Ann Percival a state registered nurse and qualified aromatherapist, designed to enable the lay person to learn about aromatherapy in a medical context. Containing easy to follow recipes and massage techniques for a whole variety of conditions.

Aromatherapy - The Essential Blending Guide by Dr Rosemary Caddy. With the success of Rosemary Caddy's first book 'Essential Oils in Colour' this blending guide is available for aromatherapists and users alike. Ailments are alphabetically listed and precise recipes are given showing how many drops required to achieve the best remedy for each case. Anyone can be competent in making pure blends when referring to this excellent book - practitioners and users will want a copy.

50 Vital Herbs. A fascinating read for lovers of herbal medicine. Fifty of the most useful plants available for self medication are looked at for safety, best use and efficacy. Recommended for people who want to learn about medicinal herbs, this is a truly valuable book. It is beautifully written, informative and gives useful tips at the end of each profile.

Marion Del Gaudio Mak is a qualifed aromatherapist and teacher. Among her specialist subjects is baby and child massage. Marion has seen during her work with mother and baby care groups, the pleasure experienced when using correctly chosen essential oils and gentle massage. Natural bonding and relaxation are just two of the important benefits gained from Aromatherapy for both parent and child. The book contains chapters on: Baby & Infant massage explained, Which oils to use for infants, Childhood ailments, Benefits for baby and mother, and Simple guide for home use. A great book for parents and parents to be.

The Pregnancy Book, Jennie Supper. Midwife Jenny Supper has many years experience of bringing new people into the world. Her book deals with making the birthing process pleasurable by using beautiful aromas for calming tension and natural pain relief. With hilarious cartoons and a section on "the pregnant dad", The Pregnancy Book combines fun with serious information for "mums and dads to be" at a very special time in life.

Magical Incense, David Lee. The aim of this book is to provide the basic know-how required to start making high-quality magical incenses for ritual, celebration and meditation. It is suitable both for the complete beginner and advanced ritualist. Over 100 ingredients are introduced and over 70 recipes are given. For those who wish to formulate their own recipes, comprehensive Tables of Correspondences are included.

The Fragrant Pharmacy by Valerie Ann Worwood. The Fragrant Pharmacy shows how each essential oil can offer many diverse benefits. One of the most holistic of all systems of medicine, the oils can alleviate symptoms, prevent many illness and disorders and help in their healing process. But more than that, they can provide all of us - our families, our homes, even our pets - with the protections and pleasures we need... without the chemical pollution of our bodies or our environment. This illuminating and imaginative book of aromatherapy is the household manual of the future. it is a treasury of information about precious life - and health- enhancing liquids that work in complex harmony with people and planet alike. Here is a comprehensive encyclopedia of 'medicines out of the earth', those miracles of creation which revitalise and rejuvenate, enhance our emotions and help our work and play. It charts out for all of us a fragrant way to family health and home delights.

Aromatherapy an A - Z by Patricia Davies. The most up to date encyclopedia of Aromatherapy available today, with over 400 entries covering more than 200 conditions from abscess to zona and 82 essential oils.

Aromatherapy - Simply For You by Marion Del Gaudio Mak. An updated edition of the simple and thorough guide to Aromatherapy. Easy reference chapters explain everything from purchasing and storage of essential oils to the beneficial effects to be had from their use. With new recipes for health related problems and beauty tips along with advice on safety aspects. A perfect book for beginners.

The Fragrant Mind by Valerie Ann Worwood. The Fragrant Mind falls into three parts. Part one presents a fascinating background to the subject, an explains how essential oils work on the brain. Part Two shows how essential oils can enhance emotional well-being and promote positive feelings, and includes a practical A-Z section which advises on a wide range of emotional problems, from stress and depression to moodiness and insomnia. Part Three introduces a whole new concept in aromatherapy - personality enhancement - and explains the particular characteristics of individual essential oils and how they can be matched to human personality types. You can find out for example whether you are a Floral, Herbie, Rootie, Woodie, Fruitie or Seedie type, and create your own tailor-made personality blends.