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Essential Oil Safety: A Guide for Health Care Professionals - Hardcover

Robert Tisserand; Tony Balacs

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9780443052606: Essential Oil Safety: A Guide for Health Care Professionals
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0443052603 ISBN 13: 9780443052606
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 1995

Synopsis

The safe use of essential oils is of key importance in the practice of aromatherapy. Based on up-to-date research findings, this practical, comprehensive guide gives detailed profiles of essential oils, safety guidelines for practitioners, cautions and contradictions and extensive referencing.

Essential Oil Safety is written for everyone who needs to be thoroughly familiar with the appropriate and safe use of essential oils in therapy, whether researchers, pharmacists, nurses, clinicians, aromatherapists or retailers.

  • Detailed profiles of 95 essential oils, including constituents, hazards, dosage, toxicity data and contraindications
  • Brief safety profiles of 311 essential oils and 135 essential oil components
  • Safety guidelines for practitioners, retailers and consumers
  • Details of essential oil absorption, metabolism and excretion
  • Description of essential oil toxicity with regard to the skin, mucous membrane, the central nervous system and the major organs
  • Essential oils which may react adversely with certain drugs
  • Cautions and contraindications for the therapeutic use of essential oils by all methods of administration
  • Guidelines on the safe and appropriate administration of essential oils in pregnancy, cancer, epilepsy, heart disease and many other conditions
  • Extensive references throughout the text in addition to a separate reference section

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    Review

    James Barlow Irish Pharmacy Journal, January 2005
    "Chapters are thorough and well referenced and the text may be consulted as a trustworthy and learned source of information on the toxicology of essential oils, and would be a useful reference guide for healthcare professionals and practitioners."

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    Publisher
    Churchill Livingstone
    Publication date
    1995
    Language
    English
    ISBN 10 
    0443052603
    ISBN 13 
    9780443052606
    Binding
    Hardcover
    Edition number
    1
    Number of pages
    296
    Rating
    • 4.54 out of 5 stars
      261 ratings by Goodreads