How Aromatherapy Can Help Your Arthritis Pain

Are you aware that aromatherapy can be very effective in treating your arthritis pain? It’s pretty well known that many people use aromatherapy as a powerful mood enhancer and to bring relief to certain medical conditions. Aromatherapy uses the essential oils of plants which have many medicinal and healing benefits.

Arthritis sufferers can use the oil in several different ways. As a topical treatment or added to a warm compress on stiff and aching joints, your skin easily absorbs the healing oils. True essential oils are strong and can irritate your skin, though, so you should take care to dilute them with a few drops of a carrier oil. Almond and sesame oil are carrier oils you can use.

You can put the oils in a diffuser and let the particles dissolve into the air where you can inhale them. Your brain can use them to help with memory, breathing, blood pressure, heart rate and more!

You can also make your shower, bath or sauna particularly therapeutic by adding the oils there.

Here is a list of oils useful for arthritis:

Angelica root : Acts as an anti-inflammatory, muscle relaxant and pain reliever.

• Rosemary : Is an anti-inflammatory and an antioxidant.

• Wintergreen, camphor, and menthol: Cooling and anti-inflammatory. Apply topically to sore joints.

• Clove, thyme, and cinnamon: Warming and anti-inflammatory. Beneficial if your arthritis is worse when
it’s cold and damp out.

• Cedarwood: Helps elimination through mucous membrames. Also as a sedative and an antiseptic.

• Rose: An anti-depressant. Stimulates function of the stomach and liver.

• Tea Tree: Enhances skin function and also used as an antibiotic and antifungal treatment.

• Ginger: Use as a pain reliever and anti-inflammatory.

• Lemon: Acts as an antiseptic and increases flow of urine.

Many people with arthritis are looking for natural remedies for relief from their symptoms.
Aromatherapy is natural, safe and economic way to treat the pain and stiffness caused by arthritis.

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