Showing posts with label Plant extracts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plant extracts. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Don’t Do Drugs, Do Essential Oils

When is the last time you’ve used drugs? No, not illegal drugs but either prescription or over-the-counter medications to help get rid of your headache, allergies, or other aches and pains. People tend to pop pills to get instant relief, but wouldn’t you want to know exactly was it being put in your body than trusting a plastic label? Well, curiosity got the best of me so I decided to dig a little deeper about home remedies and found that plant essential oils might be the answer to our problems. Essential oils are compounds obtained by distillation or solvent extraction from aromatic plants, herbs, or spices (Diaz-Sanchez et. al 2015). Plant essential oils have recently been a hot topic of debate because they’ve been used since ancient times and are still being reported to provide major health benefits. They are over 3,000 essential oils known today!