Therapeutic Blending

Therapeutic blending focuses on creating a recipe that will aid with a particular emotional or physical condition. Therapeutic blending concentrates more on a result than on the aroma of the blend, but all the same, it’s important to marry a therapeutic blend that is also pleasing in aroma.

There are three important points to remember when evaluating the oils to use in therapeutic blending:

1. Select oils for the therapeutic actions they deliver.
2. Make sure that none of the oils that you use have any side effects or safety issues that can affect other aspects of your health. For example, if you create an anti-anxiety blend and you happen to be pregnant, you would want to avoid Rosemary Oil as it is contraindicated in pregnancy.
3. Consider all the therapeutic actions you are seeing and avoid oils that clash with your desired goals. An example of this may be if you wish to create a blend to assist is menstrual cramps using peppermint and cypress, and you wish to use this blend before bedtime. You would tend to avoid these as they have energising effects that may prevent sleep.

To design your blends follow the same basic instructions as the previous chapter for oil blending.

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