Plant Language includes a set of 30 authentic essential oils. Smelling the selected essential oils will allow, to experience - indirectly - some of the discussed phenomena of plant life. Others illustrate important aromatherapy issues such as distilled essential oils vs CO2 extracts. Together the oils provide a solid impression of the brilliance and radiance of truly authentic oils. Finally they allow the reader to viscerally experience their true multi target quality interacting with our skin, nervous system and emotional state.
Physiological qualities of essential oils combine with their cultural significance to transcend the effect of any of their isolated components. many important healing properties emerge at the organizational level of the whole plant.
Stops on the way are
Lavenders and other specialties of Provence.
Higher elevation Thyme: dazzling variety and soothing frgrance of .
The specialties of Corsica
Oils from the moderate climates of central Europe
The oldest academic botanical garden in Padua
Spain and its aromatic history
Seville and its Bitter oranges
El Olor: Paited fragrance
North Africa and its Rosa centifolia
America discovering Tea Tree oil
Ginger the carminative
China and the Orient: A different language of healing
Australia and the Southern hemisphere from Niaouli to Ravintsara
Indigeneous plant medicine: treating the liver with oils
The Tropics: Clove and Cinnamon |