Chinese Essential Oil Therapy

Defintion of:  Using a plant's aroma-producing oils (essential oils) to treat disease. Essential oils are taken from a plant's flowers, leaves, stalks, bark, rind, or roots. The oils are mixed with another substance (such as oil, alcohol, or lotion) and then put on the skin, sprayed in the air, or inhaled. You can also massage the oils into the skin or pour them into bath water. Aromatherapy as used today originated in Europe and has been practiced there since the early 1900s.

For thousands of years, the therapeutic use of essential oils of aromatic plants has been utilized for the maintenance and restoration of health. Essential oils, believed to possess the most concentrated aspect of a plant, were anointed for their scent and applied to create healing on the multi-layered body-mind-spirit continuum.

Jomo has always been attracted to the use of essential oils to create scents and for that reason was quickly drawn to the therapeutic uses of essential oils from a Chinese Medical Approach during a one-year intensive presented by his teacher Jeffrey C. Yuen.

During his last term at the Swedish Institute he began using essential oils therapy and found it to have significant effects for clients dealing with depression, wasting from AIDS, and musculoskeletal conditions. The essential oils are used primarily for therapeutic practice rather than esthetic use (perfumes); however it is simple to create esthetically pleasing mediums (hair oils, hair and skin conditioners, massage oils and diffusions) which can be used to bring about healing and resolution of a wide array of conditions such as emotional trauma, childhood infectious diseases, cold and flu symptoms, and chronic degenerative diseases.

This modality is closely supervised to ensure that clients do not use the oils in a manner which causes toxicity or other harmful effects.