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2. List of essential oils - Wikipedia

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   Essential oils are distinguished from aroma oils (essential oils and aroma compounds in an oily solvent), infusions in a vegetable oil, absolutes, and concretes. Typically, essential oils are highly complex mixtures of often hundreds of individual aroma compounds. Agar oil or oodh, distilled from agarwood (Aquilaria malaccensis). Highly prized ...

3. Aromatherapy - Wikipedia

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   There are no standards for determining the quality of essential oils in the United States; while the term "therapeutic grade" is in use, it does not have a regulatory meaning. [3] [11] Analysis using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry has been used to identify bioactive compounds in essential oils. [12]

4. Dr. Cynthia Maro: Essential oils, natural remedies and your pet

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   Oils that are generally safe to diffuse for dogs and cats, when high-grade/medical oils are used in a diffuser in a well-ventilated area with an exit route for your animals: Lavender. Rose. Fennel ...

5. Essential oil - Wikipedia

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   An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile (easily evaporated at normal temperatures) chemical compounds from plants.Essential oils are also known as volatile oils, ethereal oils, aetheroleum, or simply as the oil of the plant from which they were extracted, such as oil of clove.

6. Herbal medicine - Wikipedia

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   Many essential oils can burn the skin or are simply too high dose used straight; diluting them in olive oil or another food grade oil such as almond oil can allow these to be used safely as a topical. Salves, oils, balms, creams, and lotions are other forms of topical delivery mechanisms. Most topical applications are oil extractions of herbs.

7. List of plants used in herbalism - Wikipedia

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   The leaves are used as herbal medicine to alleviate cough and fever, pain, and general gastrointestinal disorders as well as to cure dermatologic disorders. Similarly, the fruit juice and oils can be used in the treatment of liver disease, gastrointestinal disorders, chronic wounds or other dermatological disorders. [86] Hoodia gordonii: Hoodia