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- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: New World Library; 1st edition (1991)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0931432820
- ISBN-13: 978-0931432828
- Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 6.2 x 9.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
There are plenty of good books on herbs, and some of them devote a
chapter to essential oils, but there's nothing comparable to Worwood's
work. Her premise is different from other herbalists--she believes that
the most effective way to use herbs medicinally is by external
application or inhalation. Both methods allow the essential oil to enter
the bloodstream without passing through the digestive tract. Her grasp
of basic physiology is somewhat confused, but there's nothing dangerous
in her suggestions. (Worwood runs an aromatherapy clinic in England and
conducts research on aromatherapy.) Her book prescribes oils for
everything from basic first aid and treating common ailments to natural
cosmetics and body care, fragrance for the home and office, and cooking
with essential oils. A good addition to alternative medicine
collections.See also Susanne Fischer-Rizzi's Complete Aromatherapy
Handbook , LJ 7/91.--Ed
I think this is a good concise book on essential oils (and I have many
in both English and Italian, giving the aromatherapy perspective from
England, North America, Italy and Germany). However, I caution you all
to ignore Wormwood's advice on using essential oils on animals. Wormwood
recommends the use of certain oils including tea tree oil, lavender and
others on cats all of which are highly toxic to felines. Before buying
this book, I had instinctively known to never use any essential oils on
my two cats (I think mainly because whenever I would use tea tree oil or
lavender on myself, they would avoid me like the plague). But when I
saw these same oils highly recommended in Wormwood's book for use on
cats, I foolishly thought that if it's in print, it must be true. So,
when one of my cats got an abscess on her hip from a cat bite, I tried
Wormwood's abscess treatment using tea tree oil (only a couple drops) on
her. She frantically tried to get away from me as I tried to apply the
drops and then within about 15-20 minutes, started acting very ill.
Thank God I had the common sense to stop the treatment, did a search on
Google and found out that in fact, tea tree oil as well as a number of
other oils that Wormwood recommends are highly toxic to cats - their
livers cannot process certain oils and become poisons in their systems.
I've even read reports of kittens being killed from low dosage
applications of tea tree oil. I would say this is a very good reference
book for applications on humans but if you care about your pets, do more
research on your own to find out the facts about using essential oils
on animals. You might just save their life. If it hadn't been for the
dangerous misinformation in the pet section, I would have given the book
4 stars
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