Understanding the spiritual side of distillation Herbs release their essential oils only through special processes of extraction. We have to use either steam at boiling temperature, or pressure at supercritical levels (CO2 extraction), or solvants as chemical separating agents. … and the lower the pressure in distillation the less temperature you need … Distillation =…

Thoughts on Parkinson´s Disease Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative pathology characterised by the loss of dopaminergic neurons, mainly in the substantia nigra pars compacta, and the resulting depletion of the neurotransmitter dopamine (DA), which leads to motor performance decrement. Although the exact cause of neuron loss in PD is not known, evidence points to…

Impressing Anti-Cancer Properties of Carrier Oils Also a number of vegetal or fat oils have come into focus over the last years in terms of their anti-cancer properties. These vegetal oils play a major role in Aromatherapy for wellness massage, therapeutic massage as well for oral absorption together with essential oils. Since the pioneer discoveries…

Can the Energy of Essential Oils Be Measured? In 1992 the US scientist Bruce Tainio built the first energy frequency monitor in the world. This equipment allows to measure the frequencies of any living substance including the human body as well as essential oils. (Cf. http://justalist.blogspot.de/2008/03/vibrational-frequency-list.html) Robert 0. Becker, M.D., in his famous book „The…

Cancer has become one of the major threats for the health and well being of our modern societies. There are over 12 million new cancer cases annually and over 7 million cancer-related deaths every year in the world. Facing this challenge it is high time to remember the age-old alliance of mankind with the kingdom…

Lecture of Dr. Malte Hozzel on an Aromatherapy Congress in Japan Ladies and Gentlemen, honoured guests of this conference, I take it as a special honour to be able to address all of you on this occasion, knowing that Japan is looking back on an age-old tradiiton of herbal medicine and natural healing. What can…

An interview with Dr. Malte Hozzel and Jasmina Stojanovic, CEO of Serbian Health and Wellness Magazine “SENSA” “When you look at the plant, the floral process comes the last. And when you look at the plant, this opening up into colors, fragrances, tridimensional shapes, vortical expression – means that a plant understands that it can be…

Life expresses itself through breath and odours Everything breathes in the relative world of existence. Even plants breathe – yes, even stones. “All which smells gives molecules into the air according to vapour pressure on the molecular level. They come to our nose by breathing. Only when we breathe we smell. We smell until the…

The ebook edition of Essays on Holistic Aromatherapy written by Dr. Malte Hozzel is a compilation of deep insights into medicinal plants and essential oils.  Over the last 25 years, Dr. Hozzel has travelled the world in a quest to find the purest and finest oils, sourcing them directly from the growers to bring forward the…

  Synergy means combined energies in togetherness. It is natural for the relative field of life to be expressed in diversity, but this diversity becomes compact in a greater directedness when it is intelligently and harmoniously put together to create new units of wholeness. Thus, a bouquet of flowers finds its charm in a collectedness…