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Right at the start, we would like to make it very clear that the ingestion of essential oils as used in medical aromatherapy should not be undertaken by the lay person, but only under the direction and supervision of a licensed medical practitioner qualified to administer essential oils.
France seems to be the forerunner of medical aromatherapy, where essential oils are encapsulated and prescribed to be taken orally by the patient, or as suppositories.
French aromatherapy doctors employ the aromatogram where a sample is taken from the infected area of the patient and cultivated in a laboratory, and then subjected to various essential oils, to find the most effective oil to treat the infection for the specific patient.
They have found that different oil combinations work better when such oil combination is specifically blended for a patient - even if various patients suffer from the same strain of bacteria - some oils seem to work better on certain people.
The above is an over-simplification of the serious medicinal side to aromatherapy, but is used to elucidate the effect that aromatherapy and essential oils can have in the medical arena.
In this particular brand of medicine, there are some very prominent medical doctors, such as Drs. Lapraz and Duraffourd of Paris. These two esteemed gentlemen have undertaken thousands of clinical trials to determine the effectiveness of essential oils in medical applications.
Drs. Duraffourd and Lapraz are also respectively the President and General Secretary of the International Federation of Association of Defense in Phytotherapy Research and Teaching - an organization whose aim is to promote the research and practices of phytotherapy and aromatherapy under doctors, chemists and other members of equivalent scientific disciplines.
Medical and other interested parties for scientific disciplines can contact the federation at the following address:
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