Aromatherapy has been becoming more and more popular in the United States. Many people have

been able to reap benefits from aromatherapy practices, and today we'll discuss how

aromatherapy can play a role in your life. Welcome back to Essential Oil Solutions with Dutera, the podcast where you'll hear exciting,

useful, and simple everyday uses for essential oils from experts in the field.

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from you. Today we're excited to talk to Jade Baldwin about creating your environment with

aromatherapy. Jade, thank you so much for being here with us today. Thank you, Annie. I'm feeling

very privileged to be here. So the first question

I want to ask about this topic is I think one that a lot of people have, and that is what is

aromatherapy? Where does it come from? So, well, any, aromatherapy is a modern name for a practice that has

been around for a long time. It's basically using

aromatic compounds, such as essential oils from plants. It's been used by humans for thousands

of years. The essential oils are the distilled and cold-pressed aromatic compounds found in

the roots, the leaves, the flower, seeds, grind,

and bark of the plants. So different plants produce different types of essential oils.

So once we learn what each one does, we can use it for whatever it is that we need.

So the ancient civilizations such as Greece, Rome, China, Arabian, India, they've used

aromatherapy and religious ceremonies and rituals. And we can even find examples of aromatherapy

in the Bible as well. I'll give you an example, actually, the Babylonians and the Assyrians

that would burn frankincense during their

religious ceremonies because the warming aroma of the oils, so that's what they use. For me, Annie,

I'm Vietnamese of heritage. You know, when I was growing up, I didn't realize that my family

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