Aromatherapy for health professionals

593 Pages·2007·3.38 MB·English

by  Price S.

Aromatherapy for Health Professionals
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Aromatherapy for
Health Professionals
THIRD EDITION
Edited by
Shirley Price
Cert Ed FISPA MIFA FIAM Hon. Member IFPA
Author Practitioner and Lecturer in Aromatherapy, Hinckley, Leicestershire
Len Price
Cert Ed MIT FISPA FIAM Hon. Member IFPA
Author and Lecturer in Aromatherapy, Hinckley, Leicestershire
Foreword by
HRH The Prince of Wales
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First Edition 1995
Second Edition 1999
Third Edition 2007
ISBN 10: 0-443-10134-5
ISBN 13: 9780443101342
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Contents
Contributors vii 12. Pregnancy and childbirth 269
Foreword ix
13. Learning disabilities and autism 285
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xv 14. Care of the elderly, with particular reference
Introduction 1 to dementia 297
15. Palliative and supportive care 313
SECTION 1 Essential oil science 7
SECTION 4 Policy and practice 331
1. The genesis of essential oils 9
2. Chemistry of essential oils 25 16. (Part I) Aromatherapy in the UK 333
(Part II) Aromatherapy within the National
3. (Part I) Quality and safety 43
Health Service 341
(Part II) Power and hazards 61
17. Aromatherapy worldwide 351
4. Traditional use, modern research 77
Appendices, Glossary and Useful
SECTION 2 The foundations of practice 137
addresses 381
5. How essential oils enter the body 139
Appendix A 383
6. Hydrolats – the essential waters 155 (Part I) Essential oils for general use in
health-care settings 385
7. Touch and massage 165
(Part II) Indications for uses of essential oils 478
8. Aromas, mind and body 199 Appendix B 492
1. Uterotonic oils which facilitate delivery 492
9. Aromatic medicine 219
2. Emmenagogic essential oils 492
3. Disputed emmenagogic oils 492
4. Toxic, neurotoxic and abortive oils not used in
SECTION 3 Aromatherapy in context 231
aromatherapy 493
5. Neurotoxic and/or abortive oils occasionally used
10. Aromatherapy and primary health care 233
in aromatherapy 493
11. Stress, including critical care 251 6. Potential skin irritant oils 494
7. Phototoxic oils 494
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8. Contact-sensitizing oils 495 Sources to Appendices 521
9. General properties of essential oils 495
Glossary 524
Appendix COccupational Health and Safety 504
Appendix D Essential oil: definition for Useful addresses 528
aromatherapeutic purposes 508
Index 530
References to Appendices 510
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Contributors
Angela Avis MBE MARGN DN Cert PG Dip Ed Christine StaceyMADip HE BSc (Hons)
PG Dip Advanced Health Care Practice Complementary Therapies RSCN RN
Senior lecturer, Oxford Brookes University Senior lecturer/programme leader,
Complementary Therapies, University of
Elaine Cooper MIFPALIAM Greenwich
Lead complementary therapist for Walsall NHS;
aromatologist; teacher Primary Care Trust The Rev. Dr. Robert Stephen BABD MTh
(Oxon) FSAScot FIAM Dip Clin Arom
Jane CumminsRGN MIFPALDCA Teacher; priest; aromatologist
Nurse; aromatherapist
Denise Tiran MSc RM RGN ADM PGCEA
Jenny Henry Dip Cot MSROT MIFPA Director, Expectancy Ltd; honorary lecturer,
Occupational therapist; aromatherapy University of Greenwich, London
practitioner
Elizabeth Walsh RN (LD) Dip Couns BSc (Hons)
Dr William E MordenCChem MRSC Complementary Therapies
Consultant specializing in analysis, quality Medway NHS Trust community nurse – post
control and chemistry of essential oils diagnostic support
Penny PriceM Ed MIFPAMIFAFIAM Sue WhyteRGN RM Cert Ed FE MIFPA
Lecturer; Principal, Penny Price Academy; Macmillan lecturer practitioner (retired);
aromatologist aromatherapy practitioner – Oncology Unit,
Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry
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Foreword