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What is aromatherapy?
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine defines aromatherapy as the use of essential oils (extracts or essences) from flowers, herbs, and trees to promote health and well-being.
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Essential Oils
Essential oils are the volatile, aromatic oils obtained by steam or hydrodistillation of botanicals. Most essential oils are primarily composed of terpenes and their oxygenated derivatives. Different parts of the plants can be used to obtain essential oils, including the flowers, leaves, seeds, roots, stems, bark, wood, etc.
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