Giuseppe Zanella / Silvana Giorgiani
HEALING WITH ESSENTIAL OILS
A theoretical and practical manual for utilisation of essential oils, ReikiFluand FluCream

ATLANTIDE EDIZIONI
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©1998 Atlantide Edizioni, Pogliano Milanese (Mi), Italy
All rights reserved for all countries. No part of this book may be copied, translated or reproduced by any means without prior written permission of the publisher.

Front page: Composit of Orion flowers (© Elena Zanella)
Illustrations by: Valeria Sapienza
Translated by: Andrea Moro
First edition: October 1998

This book is an amplified sequel of the text already presented about ReikiFlu, because of clearer needs about the methodical application of ReikiFlu and FluCream.

NOTE:
This book is dedicated to those who want to grow in knowledge and consciousness, but don't want to substitute the doctor. If you have or you suppose to have a problem, then ask to your doctor. The authors are not responsible for the improper use of the products.

INTRODUCTION
Living in this planet is becoming even more painful. We can find even more brothers around us that are afflicted by mental matters, stress, and diseases. This theoretical and practical manual is made for this purpose and for the great pleasure and desire to give and diffuse wellness, relief and happiness to every living being. The new Man needs an easy, effective and practical way to live in harmony with himself and the cosmos. Because of this superior Will we divulge how to use the vegetal kingdom by means of the application and the union of essential oils and plants extracts.

Essential oils are odoriferous substances that can be found in plants. We can consider them as their soul. The hearts of the plants, joining our hearts, emit a very strong vibration that brings back the balance in our hearts, in our organs, in our minds, in our psyche; in bodies touched by disharmonious vibrations that created suffering.

Our goal is to let man achieve a state of freedom in which he cannot depend on external conditioning, and on the continuous use of chemical or natural substances; it is a condition in which he can learn to use them only when there is a real need, in order to re-equilibrate the blown part of his being.

By the union of this essential oils we can go back up to the cause that created the physical, psychic or mental disease, in order to solve it gently. In this way man will be able to understand the cause of that disharmony, becoming conscious and avoiding to recreate the same vibration, in order to reach that harmonic condition wanted by us all and achieved only by a few.

USE OF ESSENCES THROUGH HISTORY

Since the origins men have used vegetal and scented essences, first in an empirical and instinctive way, and later in a more precise and appropriate way.

Through history and anthropology we can find that many civilisations dealt with fragrances, herbs and spices. Even since the eve of the 'disappeared' continent, Atlantis, with its marvellous flora living in that sort of Eden (where all things were in 'macroscopic' scale, from crystals to plants, flowers and fruits), the utilisation of floral and aromatic essences has been a sort of highly evolved ceremonial, created to deal with bioenergetic lack of balance and beauty preservation of one's body.

But the utilisation of aromatic essences in Atlantis first, and in Egypt later, had its main purpose in sacred and religion: fragrances were 'essentially' a hymn to divinity, and a way to contact the Upper Energies of the Creation.

Later, and gradually, the religious and sacred purpose of the fragrances utilisation became less important, and essences were used mostly for aesthetic matters, beauty and some vanity. So people began to make creams and oils for the physical body, importing flowers, fruits, peels from the near Libya, the East, Arabia and other lands of East Africa.

The utilisation of scented essences spread from Egypt to the other lands of the world. Even in India, like the 'Vedas' (holy books) report, since ancient times people have used perfumes for religious purposes, and temples were built by means of sandalwood in order to better 'sanctify' the offers to Divinity. Perfumes became soon a characteristic feature of females' beauty and charm and this because, according to Indians, the meaning of essences were Purity, Beauty, Health and Charm. Later, no great metropolis could avoid these influences. In Babylon, balms and ointments were so largely adopted that moralists called it 'the great prostitute'.

Only about the Thousand Year in the Christian Eve the physician and philosopher Avicenna re-invented the condenser coil of the still. This invention allowed the alchemists to extract the subtlest part of the plants, that is the fifth volatile essence of aromatic substances. In fact, referring to their extreme volatility, the Northern countries used to call them "etheric oils", from "ether". And the ancient Greeks called this volatile essence the "vital breath", because it could give life to plants, animals and men, coming in and out from the body by means of respiration (the Indian "prana" or the Chinese "ki"). In those times, the art of distillation surged to a spiritual value, because therapists of the time gave prior importance to the understanding of disease as a disequilibrium of soul and personality. They understood that essential oils were a way to restore the psychosomatic balance, healing and alleviating both physical and soul illnesses. The distillation carried by the alchemist, symbol of purification and concentration of cosmic forces, represented also his interior "metamorphosis". The discovery of modern essential oils owed to the careful and deep investigations of the first distillation masters - alchemists, and among them we can find one of their greatest leader, Paracelso (physician, chemist, astrologer, surgeon of the XVI century).

Even later, spices, herbs and fragrances have always been the most precious goods carried in long and dangerous expeditions, by land and by sea, and were often the tribute paid by the won to the winner population.

It is only in the XIX century that we can see scientists interested in substances and active principles of essential oils. Chamberland carried out the first scientific experimentation in 1887, and his aim was to prove the antiseptic properties of essential oils. His works were confirmed two years later by Cadeac and Meunier (researchers who studied the essential oils in the second half of the XIX century). In 1910, Martindale classified the essential oils by means of their antiseptic qualities (for example, lemon oil acts on pneumococcus in 3 hours, on streptococcus from 3 to 10 hours). In 1931, R. M. Gattéfossé, fascinated by their features, published the first book about aromatherapy, "prophesying" that this method would have played a main role among natural remedies. Later, doctors like Feynan, Valnet, Sévelinge, Pénoel, L. Binet, Belaiche and Mr. P. Franchomme also dealt with essential oils, and they contributed and still contribute to improve our knowledge about the excellent powers of essential oils.