Guest guest Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 Sorry I forgot to answer this question from someone. Most of the popular aromatherapy books have some information that is useful. However, what lets them all down badly is the therapeutic properties they attribute to essential oils. From the first writers on the subject such as Lawless, Tisserand, Price, Rose, Worwood, et all, they have frequently taken the properties of the herbal extract taken as a medicine, and simply transferred that to the plants essential oil. That fundamental and massive blunder continues with all the more modern books on the subject such as the Batagglia book and others. Please bear in mind why these authors made these blunders. This is that most had no training in the essential oils trade, indeed most are ex beauty therapists, and few knew where to look for accurate information on essential oils. Publishers do not give a damn if the books they sell are inaccurate or dangerous as long as they sell. Below is a book list that I posted a couple of years back which might help. Martin Watt ----------------- April 2004 to: >What would be the best aromatherapy books to add to ones collection? There are very few AT books that I have any respect for. Of those that I do, most of the books written by Daniel Ryman are pretty good. I recommend Chrissie Wildwood 'Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Aromatherapy'. A good basic starter is 'The Essential oils book' by Coleen Dodt. Even in these though there are properties attributed to essential oils that are based on herbal medicines, but at least these authors tried to do the background research rather than just copying from others. Gattefosse's Aromatherapy is an excellent historical work written in 1937 republished by C.W.Daniel and Co. ISBN. 0-85207-236-3. However, you need to be aware that he mostly used deterpenated oils not whole ones as many AT writers assume. If you want accurate referenced information on essential oils without the fairy tails it is available via myself. For those with this desperate need to live in a fantasy world they can buy any of the rest of this trades novels. In that respect people should stop and think why it is that the biggest selling books in the world are novels or semi novels. It is lovely to be able to escape reality by being told that if you rub a bit of lemon oil over your liver that it will cure your gallstones, boy I wish! Those people who write well researched technical books do it for the love of what they are writing about, not money. That applies to all good technical works of any kind. The list below is for those who are prepared to pay for good information resources. Many more good techical works can be added to this list. Martin http://www.aromamedical.com -- PERFUME AND FLAVOUR MATERIALS OF NATURAL ORIGIN by Steffen Arctander. Available from allured Press, USA. ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF COMMON NATURAL INGREDIENTS. ISBN 0-471-50826-8 POTTER'S NEW CYCLOPAEDIA OF BOTANICAL DRUGS AND PREPARATIONS. ISBN 0- 85207-1973 THE BRITISH PHARMACEUTICAL CODEX 1934, or old US PHARMACOPOEIAS. ADVERSE EFFECTS OF HERBAL DRUGS vol. I & 2 by De Smet. ISBN 3-540- 55800-4 TEXT BOOK OF PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS 1901 by W. Hale-White M.D. F.R.C.P. A MODERN HERBAL by Mrs M.Grieve. Various publishers. CHINESE HERBAL REMEDIES 1984 by A. LEUNG. THE ESSENTIAL OlLS by E. GUENTHER. Publ. Van Nostrand. New York. BOTANICAL DERMATOLOGY 1979 by Mitchell and Rook . (out of print) ADVERSE REACTIONS TO COSMETICS by Anton de Groot. ISBN 90-900-2597-9 SCENTED FLORA OF THE WORLD by R. Genders, Publ. Mayflower. STURTEVANT'S EDIBLE PLANTS OF THE WORLD 1919 republished 1972 by Dover. THE CHEMISTRY OF ESSENTIAL OILS BY DAVID WILLIAMS. ISBN 1-870228-12-X AROMATIC PLANTS AND ESSENTIAL CONSTITUENTS. ISBN 962-238-112-X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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