Aromatherapy for Health Professionals (Paperback)

by Len Price MIT(Trichology) FISPA FIAM(Aromatic Medicine) (Author), Shirley Price Cert Ed FISPA FIAM (Author)
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Book Description
The standard for state-of-the-art techniques and applications of aromatherapy.

Product Description
This book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to aromatherapy as practiced in modern health care settings, providing valuable information for any health professional who wants to learn about the subject. It provides the in-depth knowledge needed to begin using essential oils in the practice environment.

• Reader-friendly layout and design makes the material accessible and easy to follow.
• All oils specified in the national curricula are covered in detail.
• Case studies illustrate practical applications for concepts and techniques discussed in the chapters.

• Fully revised and updated discussions throughout include 24 new essential oil profiles added to this edition.
• Updated information on health and safety provides crucial information on safeguarding both the practitioner and the client.
• Additional references and new research have been added to this edition, as well as updated and revised tables.
• More illustrations make key points easier to understand.
• Chapters on carrier oils and essential waters have been updated and expanded.
• The touch and massage chapter has been thoroughly revised.
• The index has been extensively revised to include essential oil properties and indications.
• Contributed chapters from nurses and midwives from various hospitals and community settings address topics such as Policy and Practice of Aromatherapy, Aromatherapy in Nursing, Primary Health care, Midwifery and Childbirth, Learning Disabilities, Stress, Intensive and Coronary Care, Care of the Elderly, and Palliative Care.

Product Details

• Paperback: 565 pages
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 3 edition (December 5, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0443101345
• ISBN-13: 978-0443101342
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #125,374 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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93 of 95 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Aromatherapy for the Serious, March 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Aromatherapy for Health Professionals (Paperback)

Shirley Price is an author to be trusted. While many books on the market seem to repeat claims without substantive proof, Price's texts offer footnoted references. This text is well researched and provides source material for deeper study.

Price explains the chemistry of aromatherapy clearly, exhorting the reader to learn why and how essential oils affect the body and mind. Chemistry, botany, and application are brought together is a beneficial, down to earth, deep text. With factual content and science on which to base decisions, the aromatherapy practitioner can make informed decisions.

As a teacher of aromatherapy (my students are allied health professionals and alternative practitioners) I recommend both this text and Price's AROMATHERAPY WORKBOOK.

39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comment from a Health Professional, March 5, 2001

By	T. Schmenk, M.Ed. (York, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Aromatherapy for Health Professionals (Paperback)

As a Health Education Specialist it is my job to work with clients in finding ways to improve their health. It is also my job to provide the most acurate health information. I make a point to check and double check any informational source that I might use as reference in considering possible avenues.

I have found this book to be extremely helpful in making such decisions pertaining to aromatherapy. It is full of actual case studies, physicians reference notes, reasonable scientific methodology, and sound references. This is one of the only books that I know of that successfully convinced me of the possible use of aromatherapy with more traditional allopathic methods.

If you should choose to pursue aromatherapy as a means to improving your ailments, I do stress that you address your concerns and your plans with your physician to ensure not only the best possible outcome but, your safety as well.

T.Schmenk, M.Ed.

48 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What I was looking for...., April 5, 2002

By	P. L. Ross "trplr" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Aromatherapy for Health Professionals (Paperback)

I had read several books on essential oils and aromatherapy. Some were filled with anti-Western medicine rhetoric, others were focused on cosmetics, while others contained good anecdotes with recipes interspersed. I use these, but was looking for something else, which I couldn't really articulate.

I haven't finished reading this, but it is exactly what I was looking for. It combines practical application with reasonable science while focusing on healing.

The book is written in the context of the UK medical system, which doesn't match the US system very well, but it isn't hard to generalize the concepts to a different venue.

In the back are several appendices listing the recommendations and summarizing the findings.

Definitely worth the time and money.