How accepted is aromatherapy now?
While we are just at the beginning of the boom in aromatherapy, acceptance is well established throughout several sectors of society. It’s not so long ago that any “alternative” therapy was classed as weird, flaky, downright dangerous or just a plain waste of time by many in the medical profession. How times change. You will always have the diehards, but more and more people in the medical profession are embracing natural therapies as valuable adjuncts to their own skills. Aromatherapy is one such practice that is now finding widespread acceptance from doctors, nurses and, crucially, administrators and funding bodies who once would have rejected it out of sight. Thousands of scientists and researchers, as well as medical, beauty and health professionals, working individually or as part of professional organizations, are already satisfied by aromatherapy, as are the millions of people, particularly in England, France, Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland, where aromatherapy is widely pract
