The deep inter-connectedness of plants with the Cosmos and their omnipresent nourishing and caring attitude towards all living beings, makes it very easy to fall in love with their essence and develop an unending admiration for the unfathomable intelligence of Nature present in them. …and through them we are connected with the creative spirit behind…
Tag: Holistic Aromatherapy
LEAVES – the Green Mystery
What would the world be without leaves of plants? And what would the plant be without leaves? Simply to say: NOTHING – impossible to think otherwise as much as we cannot think of the Earth without air, a human being without lungs or a fire without heat. The Green Leaves are the global lungs of…
Thoughts on ARTHRITIS/ARTHROSIS – Aromatherapy and Herbal Medicine
Arthritis and Arthrosis are symptoms of pain and stiffness in the joints; ligaments and bones, both are affected in both cases. It is an inflammatory condition and as such can also influence skin and muscles as well as certain organs. Arthrosis is one of the most common kinds of Arthritis. In this case the cartilage,…
MAGICAL HEART – Aspects of Aromatherapy
Modern and Spiritual Science Using volatile fragrances in form of essential oils is a beautiful way to open our heart… to others, to Nature, to the Spirit in ourselves, to the Universe. Inhalation or smelling of essential oils is an act of healing. Natural fragrances have a direct impact on our tonus, esp. the tonus…
PLANTS, MAN AND THE SUN – the Magic Triangle for Life
Plants settled on planet Earth due to the birth-giving power of the SUN. …and Man settled on planet Earth due to the birth-giving power of the Plants. GAIA, our planet, contained the right mixture of light, size, matter, and energy to attract the invisible impulses of Life or „Prana“ and thus became one of the…
ANOSMIA – loss of smell does not need to be final
When people lose their capacity of smelling it is often experienced as something really dramatic. Of course, any loss of one of our senses is strangely handicapping and can make us feel to be another person, to have lost part of our being human. In the case of losing our olfactive capacity, we are deprived…
AROMATHERAPY – a global action plan
Born from Light Everything on Earth is composed of light. Plants absorb and store light through photosynthesis – and they create cycles of life, matter, oxygen… plants feed on light, and we feed on plants and absorb their light. Light is the basic element of all existence in the Universe. Numerous essential oils are mentioned…
HEAL YOURSELF With Nature
Aromatherapy, with its essential oils, is becoming increasingly popular; not only in the realm of personal well-being but also in scientific communities worldwide. There is this marvelous depth in essential oils, linking them on the one hand to ancient folk-medicine and profound understanding of the subtle aspects of life and healing, whilst on the other…
MAGIC OF ALCHEMY – Nature’s Transformational Skills in Plants
The purpose of alchemy is to release the „deity in matter“ wrote the famous psychologist C.G. Jung, it is “to liberate the quintessential core of matter through repeated processes of purification.” To release the deity in matter does not only mean to access the secrets of transformation in Nature and its innumerable “matter-fields”, but to…
AROMATIC REFLECTIONS for Moments of Crisis – Part 2
We do not need to re-invent the wheel. We just have to deepen our knowledge of Nature and combine her age-old defense mechanisms with our modern scientific approach. Essential oils are Sun-Light messengers. With their poly-molecular bio-chemical outfit they have developed as allies of interaction inside Nature herself in a kind of challenge and response…
AROMATIC REFLECTIONS for Moments of Crisis – Part 1
Sometimes… When we look at our lives today, individually and collectively…When we have forgotten how much we are caught up in the matrix of habits, routines, conditionings, boredoms, stress… Then something may appear from “nowhere“, pulling us by the nose ? making us jump up in panic, cutting the normal flow of things in a…
SLEEPING PROBLEMS and some Natural and Aromatic Approaches
Sleeplessness or insomnia is a major problem in our modern, stressful society. Millions and millions of people all over the world suffer from it. Our hectic life style in a modern society with constant demands for better and faster performances, the global media connectedness, disharmonious day and night rythms in general etc. have also left…
AROMATHERAPY for Rehabilitation
What can aromatherapy add to rehabilitation centres? Padre Gabriel Mejia from the Christian order of the Claretians has created more than 50 rehabilitation centres all over Columbia. In these centres he introduced Transcendental Meditation and aromatherapy to thousands of kids and adolescents. “The street is my church” Father Gabriel “Now operational in 52 centres across…
THE ARTEMISIA OILS – Part 2: Thoughts on Malaria and Cancer
Artemisia annua, also called “Sweet Wormwood”, is another amazing medicinal herb from the Artemisia genus. Extracts of Artemisia annua have been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for over thousands of years. The plant has stirred up strong interest over the last decades because of its highly efficient results on treating Malaria. Until today Malaria…
THE ARTEMISIA OILS – Aromatic Challengers and Benefactors, Part 1
The genus “Artemisia” belongs to the Asteraceae family – the “star blossomers” (lat. “aster” = star), so called because of the star-like structure of their blossoms. It was also called before the “composite” or “daisy” plant family. “Composite” because of their special way to compose their flowers in a circular group together, giving the impression…
DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, STRESS and some Aromatherapy Solutions
Depression is something mysterious, enigmatic – it is like an accident, something that seems fatal and which hits when we do not even think that it could be us who are the victims this time. And no solution seems to work – although big Pharma sells anti-depressants for billions of Euros in the world today….
Aroma Massage for Immunity, Energy and Joy
Aromatherapy has made a strong contribution over the last decades for a better understanding of the power of medicinal plants. At the same time it has given us access to a new form of “energy medicine” which means nothing less than helping us to understand the more subtle implications of health and disease. And this…
Man and Plants – An Ancient Alliance
Yes, Man and Plants….. It is such an old story. It goes back hundreds of thousands of years. It is actually a love story of man with Nature and its subtle energies. And it is a story of the collective heart of us humans and its relation with the Universal Spirit. Plants remind us that…
Aromatherapy and Modern Medicine – Challenges and Responses
Modern medicine seems to have reached its peak of being (or pretending to be) THE solution for the multiple ailments of man on Earth. The figures of serious medicine related problems are rising constantly and they are more and more frightening. It is high time to come back to the age old healing methods of…
Smelling – The Gift of Mother Earth
Wondrous sense of smell Olfaction, smelling, fragrances have always been something like an enigma in the understanding of our 5 senses. Smell is the only sense with a direct access to the brain, say the scientists. And Ayurveda, the age-old healing science of India describes smell as being linked to the Earth element, the heaviest…
Herbal Medicine and Diabetes
Modern life style is marked by high challenges of stress, bad food habits, sedentary life style, and many other collective factors which have made Diabetes one of the major health problems of our time. Diabetes is a chronic disease caused by high levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood. Insufficient production of insulin in the…
Epilepsy – Thoughts and Remedies for an Ancient and Modern Plague
Epilepsy is a neuro-psychiatric disorder. It has a high statistic today among children and young adults. India has about 10 million people suffering from epilepsy. 95% of them are never treated for it because of not having access to valuable treatments. Also: “It is the most expensive chronic neurological brain disorder in Europe. According to…
Nature’s Defence Agencies – Thoughts on Anti-Microbial Effects of Essential Oils
The newly discovered corona-virus epidemics in China – even though largely exaggerated in its challenge by the usual media coverage – has drawn the attention of numerous persons from the “community” of natural medicine and Aromatherapy. The point is that – again and again – we are facing threats of individual and collective health and,…
Understanding the Spiritual Side of Distillation
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 =…
Energizing Actings on Parkinson’s Disease
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…
Aromatherapy Shining a New Light on Cancer – Part 3: Impressing Anti-Cancer Properties of Medicinal Plant Oils
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…
Aromatherapy Shining a New Light on Cancer – Part 2: Essential Oils as Light Carriers
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…
Aromatherapy Shining a New Light on Cancer – Part 1
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…
Outlooks on Medical Aromatherapy – Past – Present – Future
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…
Cosmic life of Plants
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…
Enter the Soul with Fragrant Breathing
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…
Ebook edition of Essays on Holistic Aromatherapy Now Available!
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…
The magic of synergies
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…
Aromatherapy and the Science of Life
Miracles Shall we remember ? 35 Million years ago…….. We are just 30 million years after the end of the “dinausoaure period”. One of the biggest revolutions in nature happens: THE BIRTH OF FLOWERS and with them a huge variety of new essential oils appear after the Conifer oils. The appearance of hundreds of thousands…
ADHD – Answers to a modern plague in a stressful world
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has become an excruciating problem for the young generation (and their educators) over the last decades and while the Pharma industry and psychologists struggle to find solutions, more and more people are finding the answers in plain sight… It is hard to believe, but ADHD is one of the most frequently…
Aromatherapy for raising the Spirit
A new understanding The uprise of new methods combining the use of essential oils with massage, chakra therapy, auric cleansing, visualization, meditation and other natural approaches to healing, self-healing and self-development is a timely development. Of course, the physical properties of essential oils have been well studied over the past few decades – but mostly…
Spring Allergies: Breathe free and enjoy the renewal of life
As we are heading towards Spring season the air is delicately fragrant with the first blossoms of almond trees. The humming of busy bees flying out of their hive, eager to spread their wings, of birds chirping their enchanting melodies, this is definitely one of the nicest moments of the year. Everywhere Nature is bursting…
Conifer essential oils: powerful pillars of light
We are already heading towards winter… Temperatures are falling, the days are becoming shorter and the trees in the forest are loosing their leaves. But one family of majestic trees is still showing signs of strength. They are standing tall, strong and evergreen rising high into the sky as if the growing cold is their true element….
Crisis for Evolution: Health, Mind and Essential Oils
The reason for disease lies in the host, not in the germ When somebody speaks about a disease, for example having “caught a cold” or having been contaminated with a virus or a bacteria, we often may ask ourselves: Who and where is the actual originator of this? Is it true that we are only…
Frankincense – Illuminate your body and soul
The spirit of the sacred and of meditation surrounds frankincense since ages. Resins and their oils (Frankincense, Myrhh, Benzoin, etc.) have always been easily associated with fumigation and purification. The special mind set-up they create is “vertical” like the smoke that rises to heaven. Vertical means also away from the boundaries of worldly “airs and…
Spring Detox with Aromatherapy
Now, that spring has arrived in the northern hemisphere, and fall in the southern hemisphere, it is the ideal time for a detoxification. Practised for centuries by cultures around the world — including Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine systems — detoxification is about resting, cleaning and nourishing the body from the inside out. By removing and…
Oils that heal, oils that kill
It is hard to believe, but eating French fries or any deep fried food at your home or in restaurants may be a hazard for your personal health and the ones around you. Is this just a provocative statement or is there more behind it? Well, Sunflower oil, Corn oil, Soy oil which are probably…
Synergies: The Power of the Many
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 of…
No More Migraines – No More Headaches
If you suffer from migraines or repetitive headache, if you suffer from forgetting things, and that no chemicals and conventional medicine has been helping you, here are 2 miraculous essential oils that you may want to try… Yes, according to Daily Mail: “Migraines are bringing misery to millions of women, with one in three failing…
Did you know that cancer cells know to smell?
…and that essential oils can find their way to them? Scientists at the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) under the direction of Prof. Hanns Hatt have discovered a while ago that cancer cells dispose of their own receptors for fragrances . This was published in the Journal Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. This research showed that…
The Miracle of Fragrant Light
Essential oils are the result of biochemical transformations induced by Sun Light. As carriers of this light energy they are the most miraculous gifts of Nature. They restore balance on all levels of the human system, increase energy, change our moods, protect us against negativity…..and heal the most vicious diseases often not attainable by modern…
How essential oils can help us heal deep emotional stress ?
Aromatische Substanzen beeinflussen in beträchtlicher Weise unsere Emotionen und können tief auf unsere Psyche einwirken, indem sie den Geist entspannen und unsere spirituelle Ebene anheben. So greifen auch ätherische Öle mit ihrer konzentrierten aromatischen Wirkkraft merklich in unseren Geist und unsere Emotionen ein. Man geht davon aus, dass unser Geruchssinn zehntausend Mal präziser als alle…
Love the Plants
What does it mean to really connect with the healing energy of Nature? Dr. Malte Hozzel explains in this interview what he sees is the key to understanding essential oils. He says, “Love the plants which are behind the oils. For me its most important that we have a connection with the levels behind as much…
Palo Santo – dying to be reborn
Palo Santo is an aromatic wild-growing tree that belongs to the Burseraceae family, the same group to which belong Myrrh, Frankin-cense, Copal sanctum, etc. The name is derived from Spanish and means “holy wood”. It refers to an age-old healing practice structured in the knowledge and ceremonial tradition of South- and Mesoamerican shamans or healers…
Oshadhi skincare secret for men
Carrot seed is one of nature’s purifiers, of great help where there is congestion or accumulation of toxins. Gentle purification The detoxifying effects of carrot seed oil are helpful in both therapy and skincare. Carrot seed makes a great addition to a massage blend for a full-body massage or detox wrap, or it can be…
The unknown benefits of Ginger hydrolate
Today we are pleased to present a rare gift of Nature whose amazing benefits are not yet well known. This is Ginger hydrolate! Ginger was among the first oriental spices to reach Europe. Native to Southeast Asia, ginger is considered in Ayurveda as a must cure because it increases Agni (digestive fire) and decreases Ama (toxins). In aromatherapy it…
6 MUST-HAVE AROMATHERAPY OILS
Aromatherapy oils are natural oils derived from the aromatic plant parts, especially their flowers, leaf, and bark. They are used to achieve relaxation, alleviate stress, and treat various physical as well as emotional disorders. Basically, they ignite your senses and enliven your body. However, research shows that they are beneficial for various disorders as well….