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Essential Oils In Ancient Greece

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The Egyptians are thought to have had a large influence on the Greeks. The first recorded use of (essential) oils was as gifts or trade from the Egyptians, where they were instantly recognized for their many different uses. (Ancient Egypt Online, n.d.) The Greeks, however, were able to make huge advancements in the way plants and essential oils were utilized in medicine when physician Hippocrates began to study them. Long before aromatherapy essential oils were in common usage, many people used the actual plant to heal. Hippocrates is accredited with changing the way medicine was viewed and used healing plants as part of his “Hippocratic Theory.” (Falsetto, 2009) He believed strongly in the medicinal benefit of fumigation with aromatics and used fumigation in the city of Athens to combat the plague. He also prescribed aromatic treatments for fallen soldiers on the battlefields. (History of Essential Oils, 2017) …show more content…

This intellectual school revolutionized medicine in Ancient Greece, establishing it as a discipline distant from other fields that it had traditionally been associated with, thus making medicine a profession. (Hippocrates, n.d.) He was known to use ginger as a ‘warming’ herb to soothe ‘cold’ conditions and he used members of the mint family to ‘cool’ ‘warming’ conditions.(Falsetto, 2009) Implicit in his observation is fundamental principle of therapeutic aromatherapy – that essential oils applied externally affect the internal organs and tissues of the body. (History of Essential Oils,

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