Whats the Big Deal About Aromatherapy?
I tend to meet new trends in wellness with a healthy skepticism. My first experiences with aromatherapy weren’t any different. It seemed perfectly silly that smelling something could affect your health in any way. Then, in an uncharacteristic effort to make my house smell better with natural and not synthetic fragrances, I accidentally bought several therapeutic grade essential oils. At the time I was shopping, the fact that I bought therapeutic-grade essential oils escaped me. These oils had merely appeared on the most attractive website that had come up on my search. It happened that by the time my ‘fragrances’ arrived, a common cold I had been sniffling my way through had moved into my lungs, where it seemed to be doing a Snoopy dance and settling in for yet another winter-long bronchitis. Even though I couldnt’ smell the oils, I purchased an electronic diffuser and set about diffusing them into my apartment. Within about 36 hours of breathing the diffused oils, I noticed a freakish
