Was: Young Living Oils. Now: Good AT Books

June 21, 2007

OK, the books. The important stuff.

1) Right off the top of my head, the best one on safety is definitely

Martin Watt's " Plant Aromatics " .

2) I also use Chrissie Wildwood " Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Aromatherapy " .

3) Monographs from Martin's site (http://www.aromamedical.com/) are very

useful.

4) From the old days I still keep Julia Lawless's " Encyclopedia of

Essential Oils " although over time I found it to be a bit confusing as

she tends to attribute the properties of herbs to the oils.

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" The Fragrant Mind: Aromatherapy for Personality, Mind and Emotion " by

Valerie Ann Worwood is one of my favorites, although it tends to be a

bit too new-agey to my taste.

6) And the one book that got me started - although I've outgrown it a

long time ago, but still keep and use it occasionally - is

" Aromatherapy: A Lifteime Guide to Healing with Essential Oils " by

Valerie Cooksley.

These are the books that survived their trial in my library. It does not

mean that I take at face value absolutely everything I find there. But

they do contain a decent enough proportion of useful information and are

/generally/ trustworthy.

I also tend to look for AT-related scientific papers on the web,

whenever I can find them. Sometimes they help shed a bit more light on

what's going on (if you make an appropriate adjustment for the

scientific bias).

I will be very interested in other people's suggestions of good books to

read.

Best,

Nika

Mercurius Trismegistus wrote:

>MT: can you list any good books and sources?

>thanks.

>mercurius trismegistus

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