Aromatherapy, is the use of pure essential oils of aromatic plants to assist in the medical work of alternative therapies, to say in detail is that people from the nature of a variety of aromatic plants of different parts of the essential oils extracted with different smells and colors, such as eucalyptus leaves, rose flowers, bergamot peel and so on. These essential oils are made up of very small molecules with easy penetration, high mobility and high volatility. When they penetrate the human skin or evaporate into the air and are inhaled by the body, they have an effect on our emotions and other major functions of the body, soothing our nerves and pleasuring our state of mind. Each essential oil has a chemical structure that determines its fragrance, color, and the way it operates with the body's systems, which makes each essential oil have its own set of special functional substances, that is to say, essential oils can strengthen the body's psychological and physiological functions.
What is the history of essential oils? The origin of essential oils can be traced back to ancient civilizations, as early as 4500 BC in China has been found in plants with the efficacy of the treatment of disease, and the Egyptians have discovered the aromatic plants in the physical and spiritual qualities, the Greeks are more in addition to the use of essential oils in medical care, but also to use it to do sedatives and stimulants, and it is used in the bath and massage, and the later period of time, the people will be used in the human body to deodorize and prevent infectious diseases. In later times, it was used to deodorize the human body and to prevent infectious diseases, and in fact, they also played a role in reducing the mortality rate.
By the 17th century, the effects of essential oils were recognized by the general public and continue to be used today. This ancient form of aromatherapy has been refined through the ages and evolved into today's therapeutic massage that combines the sense of smell (the five senses) with the healing properties of essential oils to help relax and rejuvenate the body. Essential oils are used to treat common ailments by utilizing their beneficial effects on the human body to promote health and well-being, and are used in all aspects of life.
Botanical essential oils help new cells to grow, speed up the removal of old cells in a way that delays the aging process, assist in healing by their antimicrobial action, reduce swelling and speed up the elimination of toxins, they affect peripheral nerve endings, which in turn relieve stress and tension, and thus improve the elasticity of the skin to help eliminate scar tissue and stretch marks. In short, the overall effect is that they create a sense of well-being, assisting both the physical and mental aspects of the body and mind.
Natural plant essential oil substances have a great influence on the interaction of fluids within the tissues, and they can improve the health of muscles and nerves, increase the body's resistance, and enable greater mental and physical performance. The most curious method is that they favor the differentiation of the cytoplasm of the cell, assisting in the manufacture of new and strong cells, and thus promoting the metabolic action of dead and aged cells, so that toxic excretions and tissue residues may be prevented from penetrating into the connective tissues, and thus improve the tissues, an effect which is difficult to be achieved by other cosmetic methods. Another striking effect is: from the time of skin damage, the use of natural aromatic plants and mild medicinal effect can promote the body's internal balance, gradually make the damage back to normal, there will be no side effects on the human body effective ingredients will be fused in the body, the excess residual ingredients will be automatically discharged out of the body.
Aromatherapy with natural essential oils, the purpose of therapeutic care is not only to correct the shortcomings of the physiological process, but also a philosophical concept corresponding to the health and disease, "not I have a cosmetic problem, heal me," but a kind of "I want to be healthy, teach me how to do it, using our I want to be healthy, teach me what to do, use our senses, mind and organs to enjoy life", not only to help people maintain and improve their health, but also to inspire a new zest for life and positive health concepts. Natural Aroma Essential Oil Therapy provides a pure and direct treatment method, with many different points in the steps of traditional beauty therapy, and in the effect of the ingredients of the therapeutic products, all of which surpass the function of general skin care products by several times.
(]SPA beautiful legend
Legend three or four hundred years ago, there have been Greek physicians proposed hydrotherapy can prevent disease. Until the 14th century, is located in Belgium Ardennes (Ardennes) in the forested area of a town called SPA, the residents found that there are many natural springs, and the salt content is very low, no mineral impurities, whether it is drinking or used to bathe, the human body have great benefits, the residents are using it to treat pain and disease, and then became the birthplace of the modern SPA.
There is also a legend that water therapy was discovered in the 19th century by a Catholic priest, Sebastian Kneipp. He used hot and cold water to stimulate the body's functions, promote blood circulation and reduce stress, and the effect was so good that it slowly evolved into what is now popularly known as "Hydrotherapy" (Hydrotherapy).
There is also a legend in the Belgian city of Liege, a town called Spau, surrounded by beautiful forests and hot springs rich in minerals, the residents of the hot springs to the treatment of disease in the treatment at the same time can be in the nature of the living cleansing of the soul to enjoy the gifts of nature, hence the name of the SPA. and send out a variety of forms of beauty beauty and other forms.
SPA's pleasure of mind and body, for the internal hoarding of pressure to find an outlet, so that up close to its person, mind, spirit to achieve harmony and balance of enjoyment, so that people to taste.
The charm of aromatic SPA
Body, mind and spirit are beautiful is the dream of the modern city people who are in the state of health. SPA blowing the pleasant aroma, it is from the body, mind and spirit to give people care and comfort, care for your face, care for your soul, so you are full of vitality from the inside to the outside, bright and colorful.
Body and mind beauty charging station
SPA has carefully created the atmosphere of a special mood: in the soft sound of the delicate, fragrant curls of elegant space, enjoy the water droplets, petals, green leaves, the caress of the soil, sucking the plants from the natural forest wilderness exudes a fresh breath, everything is so warm and peaceful, such as the sky flying birds, swimming in the water as free as a fish, worry forgotten. Inside the wall of lush grass, outside the wall of red dust rolling, as if it were a world away, peach and red dust, but only within reach.
SPA includes facial care, music massage, aromatherapy, lymphatic drainage, hydrotherapy, mud therapy, marine therapy, yoga, five senses therapy, etc., to health, beauty, fitness, comfort as the main theme, the use of water, color, sound, light, plant aroma essential oils, the Dead Sea mineral mud, and even hot stones as a therapeutic tool, full of people's visual (color, natural landscape), olfactory (flowers and herbs aromatherapy), tactile senses. Floral aromatherapy), touch (massage), hearing (music), taste (herbal tea) and other senses and spiritual feelings, bringing people pleasure and enjoyment, so that people feel relaxed. Although there are measured weight detoxification and stress relief, some focus on beauty and slimming, some focus on herbal remedies, etc., but to bring you the love of the spring rain, so that people "intoxicated do not know the way back.
In the SPA world, you can beautify the face, body shape, rest heart health, feel the nourishment of flowers and grass rain and beauty therapist gentle techniques of care. After some fragrant flowers Melody water washing, step out of the SPA when you look tired has gone, exuding the fragrance of flowers and plants, the aroma of people, can be called vanilla beauty. No wonder many urban celebrities, white-collar women, and elegant men are fascinated by it, and it has become a way for them to show their taste in life.
SPA not only provides facial, hand, foot beauty, but also health and body shaping, weight loss programs, the customer base in addition to female customers to do slimming, but also to promote accompanied by male customers to do body health maintenance. The hot springs here are usually drinkable, and have a significant therapeutic effect on gastrointestinal disorders. Since most obesity is caused by indigestion in the gastrointestinal system, this type of hot spring can treat gastrointestinal diseases on the one hand, and promote lymphatic circulation and metabolism of excess fat and waste inside the body on the other hand, so that the digestive system of the body can be more robust.
The spa can be described as a rechargeable energy station for the body and mind.
The contraindications and side effects of SPA
I. The following patients are not recommended to receive spa therapy:
1. Those who are mentally incapacitated or unconscious, have dementia, mental deterioration, and balance disorders, so as to avoid drowning and accidents.
2. Arrhythmia.
3. People with untreated epilepsy.
4. Diabetics with poor blood sugar control or hypoglycemia.
5. Severe varicose veins in the lower extremities.
6, light and heat sensitivity (e.g., erythema pigmentosum).
7. malignant tumors.
8. Hypertensive patients with poorly controlled blood pressure.
9. Postural hypotension.
II. In terms of side effects, which may occur include:
1. Skin sensitivity to external heat, resulting in rash and itching.
2. Bacterial infections in users due to lack of attention to environmental hygiene.
3, heat treatment effect should be - 5% of users in the first week will produce discomfort, weakness, fatigue and other effects, but gradually return to normal.
4, to avoid committing, violent water column impact injury.
Types of SPA:
In accordance with the different uses of SPA can be divided into: urban SPA (Day Spa), beauty SPA (Beauty Spa) Hotel/Resort SPA (Hotel/Restort Spa), Club SPA (Club Spa), hot springs SPA (Mineral Spring Spa).
Day Spa]
Day spas are usually located in prestigious hotels, shopping centers, or stand-alone stores due to the constraints of a crowded city, and their treatments are not as lengthy as those at resort centers. The treatment is not as long as in a resort center. In response to the stressful pace of the city, there are treatments that can restore fatigue in a short period of time, which is considered to be a very efficient way of relaxation.
Beauty SPA
This type of SPA is mainly for women. Most of the skin and body shaping and maintenance for the appeal, there are a lot of domestic SPA is transformed from the beauty salon.
Club SPA (Club SPA)
This type of SPA in Taiwan has been membership-based, the main purpose of the fitness, sports, and to provide a variety of SPA basic use. Developed into a combination of massage, beauty, spa complex leisure center, gym is also incorporated into it, to become a wider coverage of the leisure center.
Hotel / Resort SPA (Hotel / Resort SPA)
Combined with the first-class hardware and service management of hotels and resorts, the SPA makes it possible for hotel residents to be more thoroughly relieved of fatigue and enjoy a new feeling of complete relaxation, whether after business meetings or during leisure trips.
Mineral Spring SPA
Set up in hot springs or cold springs, there are many hot springs in Taiwan, so soaking in the hot springs, generally speaking, is also a kind of SPA!
Hair SPA
The latest trend in Europe and the United States recently introduced into Asia, they will be the traditional hairdressing salon through the space to improve the hairdressing salon bit, and the space is separated from the big, so that the guests first by the consultation and advice in the decision to carry out the service, and first help the guests to use essential oils to relax the massage, and then carry out the comfortable and gentle hydrotherapy massage shampoo, or further SPA treatments, these and other SPA treatments. SPA treatment, these are collectively known as HAIR SPA.
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Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy can not only nourish the face and sex, to get rid of the disease and strengthen the body, but also can be regarded as a kind of elegant furnishings, so it has now become a fashionable men and beautiful women. However, today's people think that incense just imported from outside the region, in fact, the custom of incense in our country has a long history, which began in the Three Kingdoms and two Jin Dynasty and has been extended to the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the people.
Smoke is also known as incense burner, smoked cage, the ancient earlier incense burner are ceramic firing. From the unearthed objects, the Three Kingdoms incense smokers convergence flat round belly, shaped like pots and pans, or beams, or with two ears, the wall of the openwork there are dozens of round holes to drain the gas, the bottom of the foot, the shape of the ancient system. After the tomb in yixing, jiangsu week found western jin incense smokers, furnace body is spherical, on the skeleton has several rows of triangular air holes, the top of the molded a tortoise knob, the bottom of the furnace and the bear plate each set the bear foot three, show the end of the clever and exquisite. At that time, there are imitation of the former Han Boshang incense smokers, stove cover like mountains, Zhou Yunqi immortal attached, after burning incense, smoke from the holes in the stove cover slowly ethereal, such as into the Buddha's country of fairyland, suddenly feel like a fairy.
The Sheng Tang in the aristocracy also commonly used a silver incense smoked ball, according to the "Xijing Miscellany": "Chang'an skillful workers Ding slow, but also made bedding incense ball, a was in the incense stove, this out of the room wind, the law after the end, to slow start to restore for the machine for the ring transit around, and the stove body is often flat, can be placed in the bedding, and therefore thought of as the name." Smoked ball inside the device because of two ring-shaped live axis of the small pelvis, the center of gravity in the next, so no matter how the smoked ball rolling, ring-shaped live axis can play a balancing role, so that the small pelvis always maintain a horizontal state, the internal combustion of the spices will not be tilted over so as to erode the clothes, the principle of the modern gyroscope in the same way.
Song Yaozhou kiln incense smokers shaped like a tealight with bracket, covered with hollowed out lid, the bottom of the five sphinx feet, the wall of the device is full of decorations, for the Song Dynasty incense smoker boutique. 1974 in Jiangxi Boyang unearthed the Yuan dynasty imitation Longquan kiln porcelain incense smokers, 7 centimeters high, hemispherical cover, hollowed out, decorated with trailing grass entwined twig pattern, the furnace body of the lower part of the picking out of the two-layer back to the lotus, the glaze layer uniformly thin, glaze color gray flashing yellow, and its hollowed out carved fine, delicate and clear decoration of the textures, and the carvings. Exquisite decoration on the Ming and Qing dynasties, a wide range of exquisite and elaborate incense smokers, incense burners, stoves, stoves, the production of a far-reaching impact.
The Ming and Qing dynasties incense smoked the production and use has entered a period of prosperity, the Palace of the great halls, study, bedrooms are up to three or four feet high in a huge smoker, shaped like a golden bell birdcage, more than pinch wire enamel cloisonné blue boutique products, but also cast copper gilt burin beautifully engraved masterpieces, highlighting the Royal luxury and noble style. At that time, the literati, books on the case of more than one set of different shapes and decorations elegant incense smokers box, to create into the Yi Yi Yi elegant mood. At the beginning of the west wind, when the year cold, folk also commonly used to purple copper and white copper brass made of hand furnace foot furnace, net cover are carved exquisite decorations or auspicious patterns, regardless of the countryside gentry and common people, Miss Crone manually a furnace, has become a colorful Ming and Qing times of the city of folklore landscape.
Anciently, women are also fashionable to wear scented pouches, outside the surface of various colors of satin, wrapped in silk spices, made of child-shaped, chicken heart-shaped, auspicious birds and beasts, and so on, and embroidered with delicate patterns to show that the female red Yingqiao. There is also a wood carving scented capsule, choose a good hundred years of boxwood, by virtue of the master craftsmen, the inches between the carved opera characters, pavilions, birds and flowers, carving exquisite, realistic image, call out, showing the artist's mastery of attainments, is really a miniature wood carving of the ancient works of art. No wonder the great poet Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty to it favorably, its "Harem Lyrics" poem said: "leaning smoked cage sitting to the Ming
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