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Essential Oil Safety: A Guide for Health Care Professionals

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I very much appreciated the solid information on the safety of essential oils, as as an MD I have been using them internally for my own health. Without a book like this and adequate understanding, that could be quite harmful. However, people should be aware that the book does not cover the therapeutic effects of the oils, nor give an adequate discussion of the issue of impurities and adulterations and how to minimize the risk of these. This book is a must for anyone practicing aromatherapy, as is a reliable supplier of essential oils who tests all their products by gas chromatography and other methods.

It is nice to find at last a book that shows the safety guidelines for essential oils. While this is by no means a full list, it is a good start. With the number of people who are self proclaimed in the science of aromatherapy, and not knowing fully the contraindications of their use, it is nice to see a beginning in bringing aromatherapy to the healthcare field where it can be more widely studied for medical use rather than a good smell. This book helps to bring some credability to a field that has been ignored for so long.

This is a well written and comprehensive book on the safety of essential oils for all practitioners. It offers refreshing data based on scientific information, rather than hand-me-down misconceptions redelivered over and over in numerous other texts. The only down-side is that it was written 15yrs ago and while the information is not "out" dated, there needs to be an "updated" version to carry on where this left off. Still a worthy investment.