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2. What Experts Want You to Know About Herbs for Stress ... - AOL

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   Chamomile is popular as a tea or extract, giving you options for taking it, Dr. Misra points out. “The flowers act as a sleep aid, calm the mind, and relieve stress,” Dr. Chellam says ...

3. Essential oil - Wikipedia

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   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. An essential oil is essential in the sense that it contains the essence of the plant's fragrance —the characteristic fragrance of the plant from which it is derived. [ 1 ]

4. List of essential oils - Wikipedia

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   Angelica root oil, distilled from the Angelica archangelica. Has a green musky scent. Anise oil, from the Pimpinella anisum, rich odor of licorice. Armoise/Mugwort oil A green and camphorous essential oil. Asafoetida oil, used to flavor food. Attar or ittar, used in perfumes for fragrances such as rose and sandlewood.

5. Herbal medicine - Wikipedia

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   Salves, oils, balms, creams, and lotions are other forms of topical delivery mechanisms. Most topical applications are oil extractions of herbs. Taking a food grade oil and soaking herbs in it for anywhere from weeks to months allows certain phytochemicals to be extracted into the oil. This oil can then be made into salves, creams, lotions, or ...

6. Herbal distillate - Wikipedia

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   Herbal distillates, also known as floral waters, hydrosols, hydrolates, herbal waters, and essential waters, are aqueous products of hydrodistillation. They are colloidal suspensions of essential oils as well as water-soluble components obtained by steam distillation or hydrodistillation (a variant of steam distillation) from plants and herbs.

7. Aromatherapy - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Aromatherapy is a practice based on the use of aromatic materials, including essential oils and other aroma compounds, with claims for improving psychological well-being. [1][2][3] It is used as a complementary therapy or as a form of alternative medicine, and typically is used via inhalation and not by ingestion.