Aromatherapy - An overview.
Aromatherapy can be traced as far back as 1527, in his work ‘The art of Aromatherapy – Robert Tisserand (1st pub. 1977) tells us that it was referred to in The Vertuose Boke of Distyllacyon of the Waters of all Maner of Herbes (Hieronymous Braunschweig – 1527)
Tisserand tells us that back then all medicine was really herbology and aromatherapy until science butted in. Medicine grew from the old knowledge that certain herbs, plants and oils etc, could cure certain ailments, a process they refined unknowingly by trial and error and simply following their instincts. This led to the practitioners learning what parts of the plants to use and the best times to harvest the plants for maximum efficacy and even down to ‘time of day effect’ on when and how they were harvested in addition to the astrologically significant times of the year to do this. I feel it would not be too great a stretch to say that aromatherapy may indeed be said to be the origins of modern medicine.
