Aromatherapy is an alternative therapy, which uses pure essential oils of aromatic plants to assist medical work. Specifically, people extract essential oils with different smells and colors from different parts of various aromatic plants in nature, such as eucalyptus leaves, roses, bergamot peel and so on. These essential oils are composed of some very small molecules and have the characteristics of easy permeability, high fluidity and high volatility. When they penetrate into human skin or volatilize into the air and are inhaled by the human body, they will have an effect on our emotions and other main functions of the body, making our nerves calm and happy. Each plant essential oil has a chemical structure that determines its fragrance, color and the way of interaction with human body system, which also makes each plant essential oil have a set of special functional substances, that is, essential oil can strengthen the psychological and physiological functions of human body.
How much do you know about the history of aromatic essential oils? The origin of aromatic essential oil can be traced back to ancient civilization. As early as 4500 BC in China, plants were found to have the efficacy of treating diseases, while Egyptians discovered the physical and spiritual characteristics of aromatic plants. The Greeks not only used essential oils for medical treatment, but also used them as sedatives and stimulants, as well as for bathing and massage. Later, people used it to deodorize the human body and prevent infectious diseases. In fact, they also played a role in reducing.
In the 17th century, the efficacy of essential oil was recognized by the public and continues to this day. This aromatherapy handed down from ancient times has evolved into a therapeutic essential oil that combines the sense of smell (five senses) and is used for massage to help relax and rejuvenate. Use the advantages of essential oil in treating common diseases to promote health and happiness, and apply it to all aspects of life.
Natural essential oil from plants can help new cells grow, speed up the way of clearing old cells to delay the aging process, help to heal the antibacterial effect, reduce swelling and accelerate the elimination of toxins. They can affect peripheral nerve endings, thus relieving stress and tension, thus enhancing skin elasticity and helping to eliminate scar tissue and stretch marks. In a word, the overall effect is that they can produce comfort, which is helpful to both physiology and physical and mental harmony.
Natural plant essential oil has a great influence on the interaction of liquids in tissues. They can improve the health of muscles and nerves, improve the body's resistance and play a greater role in psychology and physiology. The most peculiar method is that they are conducive to the differentiation of cytoplasm, help to create new strong cells, and then promote the metabolism of dead cells and aging cells, so toxic excreta and tissue residues can avoid infiltrating into connective tissue, and then improve tissue, which is difficult to achieve by other cosmetic methods. Another remarkable effect is that when the skin is damaged, the mild drug effect of natural aromatic plants can promote the balance in the body and make the damage gradually return to normal. There will be no side effects, the effective components will be integrated into the human body, and the redundant residual components will be automatically excreted.
The purpose of aromatherapy, treatment and nursing with natural aromatic essential oil can not only correct the shortcomings of physiological process, but also be a philosophical concept corresponding to health and disease. "It's not that I have a beauty problem, cure me", but a kind of "I hope to be healthy, teach me how to do it, and enjoy life with our feelings, hearts and organs", which not only helps people maintain and improve their health, but also stimulates people's new enthusiasm and positive outlook on health. Natural aromatic essential oil therapy provides a simple and direct treatment method, which is different from traditional beauty therapy in many steps. In the composition and effect of nursing products, it surpasses the functions of ordinary skin care products several times.
The beautiful legend of hot springs
Legend has it that three or four hundred years ago, Greek doctors suggested that hydrotherapy could prevent diseases. Until the14th century, there was a small town called Spa in the Ardennes forest area of Belgium. Residents found that there are many natural springs spewing out here with extremely low salinity and no mineral impurities. Whether drinking or bathing, it is of great benefit to the human body. Residents use it to treat pain and diseases, so it has become the birthplace of modern hydrotherapy.
There is also a legend that hydrotherapy was discovered by Catholic priest Sebastian Kneip in the 9th century. He used hot and cold water therapy to stimulate body function, promote blood circulation and relieve stress, which was very effective and gradually evolved into the popular "water therapy".
There is also a legend that Spau, a small town in the hot sun city of Belgium, is surrounded by beautiful forests and mineral-rich hot springs. Residents go to hot springs to treat diseases, and at the same time they can refresh themselves in nature and enjoy natural gifts, hence the name SPA. And send beauty and fitness and other forms.
SPA's pleasant body and mind find an outlet for the pressure of hoarding, which makes people enjoy it in a harmonious and balanced way in body, mind and spirit and make people taste it.
Charm of aromatic SPA
Physical beauty, mental beauty and spiritual beauty are the dreams of modern urbanites in the future healthy state. The pleasant fragrance from SPA gives people care and comfort in body, mind and spirit, cares for your face and soul, and makes you full of vitality and spirit from the inside out.
Shen Xin beauty charging station
The atmosphere created by SPA is unique: in the elegant space with beautiful sound and lingering fragrance, you can enjoy the caress of water drops, petals, green leaves and soil, and suck fresh breath from plants in the Yuan Ye of natural forest. Everything is so warm and quiet, as free as birds flying in the sky and fish swimming in the water, and you can forget all your troubles. The grass grows in the wall and warblers fly, while the world of mortals rolls outside. It seems like a lifetime ago, but Taoyuan and the world of mortals are just close at hand.
SPA includes facial care, music massage, aromatherapy, lymphatic detoxification, hydrotherapy, mud therapy, ocean therapy, yoga, facial features therapy and so on. , with health care, beauty, fitness and comfort as the main purpose, water, color, sound, light, plant aromatic essential oil, dead sea mineral mud and even hot stone as the beauty tools, full of human vision (color, natural landscape, although there are weight measurement, detoxification, decompression, some focus on beauty slimming, some focus on herbal therapy and so on. The love brought to you is all spring rain, which makes people "intoxicated and don't know where to go."
In the SPA world, you can beauty beauty, keep fit, relax and keep in good health, feel the moisture of flowers and rain and the gentle care of beauticians. After washing with fragrant flowers and Merlot, I was tired when I stepped out of the SPA. I smelled of flowers and plants all over. I was really a vanilla beauty. No wonder many city ladies, working girls and romantic gentlemen are fascinated by it, and it has become a way for them to show their taste in life.
SPA not only provides facial, hand and foot beauty, but also various courses such as health care, body shaping and weight loss. In addition to female customers, the customer base can also urge the accompanying male customers to do physical health maintenance. The hot springs here can be drunk at ordinary times, which has a significant effect on gastrointestinal diseases. Because most people's obesity is caused by indigestion in the gastrointestinal system, such hot springs can treat gastrointestinal diseases on the one hand, and promote lymphatic circulation on the other hand, metabolize excess fat and waste in the body, thus making the digestive system of the body stronger.
Therefore, SPA can be said to be a "physical and mental beauty charging station" to replenish energy.
Contraindications and side effects of hydrotherapy
First, the following patients are not recommended to receive hot spring therapy:
1, people who are unconscious or unconscious, Alzheimer's disease, mental degradation and balance disorder, so as to avoid being flooded and having accidents.
2, arrhythmia.
3. Patients with epilepsy who have not received treatment.
4. Diabetic patients with poor blood sugar control or hypoglycemia.
5, severe varicose veins of lower limbs.
6, the light and heat sensitive person (such as erythema patients).
7. Malignant tumor.
8. Hypertension patients with poor blood pressure control.
9. Postural hypotension.
Second, in terms of side effects, possible situations include:
1, skin is sensitive to external heat, with rash and itching.
2. The user is infected with bacteria due to the carelessness of environmental sanitation.
3. The thermal effect should be -5%. In the first week, users will have physical discomfort, general weakness, fatigue and other effects, but gradually return to normal.
4. Avoid crimes and injuries caused by violent water column impact.
Types of hydrotherapy:
According to the different uses of Spa, it can be divided into: urban Spa (day SPA), beauty SPA (hotel/resort SPA), club spa (club spa) and mineral spring spa.
Urban spa [day spa]
With regard to the limitation of dense land and narrow population, spas in metropolises are generally located in well-known restaurants, shopping centers or independent stores, and the course of treatment is not as long as that of resorts. In view of the tense urban rhythm, it is a very efficient leisure way to have a course of treatment that can restore fatigue in a short time.
Beauty spa
This kind of SPA is dominated by women. Most of them are for organizing skin, shaping and maintaining. At present, many spas in China are transformed from beauty salons.
Spa club
In Taiwan Province Province, most of these spas have been membership-based, with fitness as the main purpose, providing basic use of various spas. It has developed into a compound leisure center integrating massage, beauty and hydrotherapy, and the gym has also been incorporated into it, becoming a more extensive leisure center.
Hotel/holiday SPA (hotel/holiday SPA)
Combined with the first-class hardware and service management of hotels and resorts, whether for business or leisure travel, SPA is provided to completely relieve the fatigue of hotel guests and enjoy another new feeling of complete relaxation.
Mineral spring hydrotherapy
Set in hot springs or cold springs, there are many hot springs in Taiwan Province at present, so soaking in hot springs can be regarded as a kind of SPA in general!
Hair hydrotherapy
The latest fashion trends in Europe and America have recently spread to Asia. They improved the SPAce of the traditional hair salon, separated it from the space, and let the guests decide the service they want after consultation and suggestion. First, they used essential oil massage to help the guests relax, then they had comfortable and gentle spa massage and shampoo, or further spa treatment, which were also collectively called hair spa.
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Massage with spices
Aromatherapy can not only beauty beauty, get rid of diseases and strengthen the body, but also be regarded as an elegant display, so it has become the fashion of handsome men and beautiful women. However, many people think that incense has just been introduced from abroad. In fact, the custom of incense has a long history in China, starting from the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty and continuing until the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.
Incense is also called incense burner and smoke cage. Earlier incense in ancient times was fired with ceramics. Judging from the unearthed artifacts, the incense of the Three Kingdoms is oblate, shaped like pots and pans, with beams or ears. There are dozens of round holes in the wall to give off fragrance, and there is a round foot at the bottom, which is shaped like Gu Zhuo. Later, the incense of the Western Jin Dynasty was found in the tomb of Zhouchu in Yixing, Jiangsu. The furnace body is spherical, with several rows of triangular air holes carved on it, a turtle-shaped button molded at the top, and three bear feet on the bottom of the furnace and the bearing plate, showing the delicate end. At that time, there was an imitation of Boshan incense before the Han Dynasty, and the furnace cover was like a mountain, with immortals attached to it. After burning incense, smoke slowly floated out of the hole in the furnace cover, like entering a Buddhist wonderland, and I felt like I was on cloud nine.
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, a kind of silver fragrant ball was also widely used among nobles. According to "Miscellanies of Xijing", "Chang 'an skillfully made incense balls on the mattress and put them in the incense burner, which originated from the house style. After the method is exhausted, it is resumed after a slow start, and the machine ring is transported everywhere, while the furnace body is always flat and can be placed for bedding, hence the name. "The center of gravity of the smoked ball is below because two small pots with annular movable shafts are installed, so no matter how the smoked ball rolls, the annular movable shafts can play a balancing role, so that the small pots are always in a horizontal state, and the perfume smell of internal combustion will never be turned over to ablate clothes and quilts. Its principle is exactly the same as that of modern gyroscopes.
The incense of Yaozhou kiln in Song Dynasty is shaped like a teacup with a tray, with a hollow inner cover on the top and five feet on the bottom, and the kiln wall is covered with patterns, which is a fine product of incense burner in Song Dynasty. 1974 Yuan Dynasty imitation Longquan kiln porcelain unearthed in Boyang, Jiangxi Province, 7 cm high, with a hemispherical cover, hollowed out, decorated with creeping weed and bound branches, and two layers of lotus patterns on the lower part of the furnace body. The glaze layer is even and thin, and the glaze color is yellow in gray. Its exquisite carving and ornamentation were dazzled by the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Exquisite incense, incense burners, hand stoves,
The production and use of incense entered a prosperous period in Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the main hall, study and inner bedroom of the Forbidden City, there are huge fuming stoves as high as three or four feet, which are shaped like golden bell bird cages. Most of them are cloisonne products such as cloisonne cloisonne, as well as exquisite bronze and gold-plated carvings, showing the royal luxury and noble style. At that time, the literati set elegant boxes with different shapes and decorative patterns on the case, creating a graceful artistic conception. When the west wind blows, it gets cold. People generally use hand stoves and foot stoves made of red copper, white copper and brass. The net covers are engraved with exquisite ornamentation or auspicious patterns. Whether gentry or ordinary people, wives and old people have a stove in their hands, which has become a colorful folk landscape in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
It is a fashion for ancient women to wear sachets, which are made of various silks and satins, wrapped with silk and cotton spices, and made into baby-shaped, chicken-shaped, auspicious birds and animals. And embroidered with exquisite patterns to show the cleverness of the needlework. There is also a kind of wood carving sachet, which is made of excellent century-old boxwood. With skilled craftsmen, there are opera figures, pavilions, flowers, birds, fish and insects in the square inch. Exquisite carving and vivid images show the artist's superb attainments. It is actually an ancient miniature wood carving art. No wonder Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, doted on him. His poem "Ci of the Harem" said: "Leaning in the smoke cage, sitting in the Ming Dynasty.