That’s what makes them easy to inhale in aromatherapy, and it’s what makes them effective for other medicinal uses.
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Most essential oils are obtained from plants by one of three basic methods: distillation, expression, and either solvent extraction or hypercritical CO2 extraction.
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But essential oils vaporize when they’re heated. That’s what makes them easy to inhale in aromatherapy, and it’s what makes them effective for other medicinal uses.
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Not only do these compounds give plants their powerful scents, they also make plants particularly potent for a wide range of uses
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Each plant species has a unique combination of 100 or more terpenes, which make the scent of that species different from the scent of any other.
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They come from a group of chemical molecules in plants called terpenes (or hydrocarbons), the cellular-level compounds that create a plant’s scent.
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Although essential oil methods are not complicated, it’s important to lay the groundwork and build working knowledge about essential oils
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part of their allure is that the methods are quite simple
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Different regions have different plants, but people’s reactions are almost universal: the sudden thrill at a familiar perfume, an immediate uplift in mood, an automatic smile, and often a sigh of relaxation.
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Different regions have different plants, but people’s reactions are almost universal