EssentialAnimals.com
Title
Essential Animals
Contact
Administrative:
- Irvine, Helen (HI353)
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- Preston
- uk PR4 5PS
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- +44.1772908000
Registrant:
- Essential Animals (ESSENTIA756)
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- Somerset
- UK TA4 2UT
Description
Aromatherapy is a natural, non-invasive aid to health and happiness and has proven highly effective in the relief of many physical and behavioural problems. E.g., Skin conditions, allergies, arthritis, immune disorders, laminitis, COPD, warts, sarcoids, stress, training problems and vices. Essential oils have been used for the promotion of health for many centuries and nowadays more and more vets are recognising their usefulness in animal welfare. The oils contain ingredients that animals would pick and choose freely to maintain health if they were living in a natural state but are deprived of when domesticated.
Essential oils are potent extracts of aromatic plants. For the most part they are steam distilled from leaves, flowers, seeds, even roots.... wherever each plant has chosen to store its essential oil. The plant uses essential oils to protect itself from disease and predators, to heal wounds and as phyto-hormones. And these are the qualities they offer to us as well. Because essential oils are highly volatile the chemical constituents are easily absorbed through the blood/brain barrier via the nose or through the skin. However they are not medicines as we know them, but work gently and holistically to balance the entire system and fight dis-ease.
In human aromatherapy massage is the primary method of application, this is not really practical when faced with a large fur covered creature. Also animals are much more sensitive to essential oils and tiny amounts are enough to produce profound results. And so we harness the animals ability to self-medicate..... The uniqueness and beauty of essential oil therapy lies in the fact that the animal directs its own healing, showing us through its instinctive response to the smell how it wants the remedy applied and how often. This is a wonderful way of returning some autonomy to your animal's life - and a great way of building up trust between carer and animal. This aspect of the oils is especially useful in animals that have had some trauma or have been abused.
