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Aromatherapy is an aid to general health and beauty, which enhances personal preventative healthcare. Safe practical choices in clinical aromatherapy with essential oils from plants can be extrapolated from evidenced based clinical references which may be integrated into the management of various common symptoms and conditions. For individuals with pre-existing medical conditions, great care must be taken to evaluate and determine which oils are appropriate and how to administer them. Both complementary alternative medicine and allopathic medicine are making advances towards integration of therapies with oils.
Ginger oil is a food product which is safe and non toxic. There is a difference in the production quality of essential oils, namely food grade and therapeutic grade. The therapeutic grade contains greater anti-nausea chemical properties than distilled ginger oil products. Essential oil of ginger, Zingiber officinale, can be a safe and effective addition to the management for the prevention of mild nausea associated with general anesthesia. I have applied the essential oil of ginger, Zingiber officinale to patients at risk for postoperative nausea associated with general anesthesia and surgery to good effect. This therapeutic success may be attributed to the synergy of multiple factors. The learned smell associated with ginger aromatherapy utilizing suggestion imagery perioperatively, the increased potency of the essential oil of ginger, Zingiber officinale, as compared to other preparations, as well as the nasocutaneous method of application. Generations of people have utilized various preparations of ginger root to ameliorate conditions such as nausea related to all forms of motion sickness as well as the mild nausea of pregnancy.
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