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Posts: 3125 · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:38 am

We use oil burners in care of the elderly wards, we use a number of oils that promote calm and restfulness as some of our clients can be very distressed and on occaision pretty aggressive. As nurses we all use tea tree oil products because its the most effective way of killing mrsa and the various superbugs that patrol hospital words. We also use tee tree and manuka oil products on our clients skin which has significantly reduced bed sores and skin break outs.

the other way we use oils is I am a certified masseuse and I use a little drop essential oil in almond oil when i massage the patients hands. If their cirulation isn't good and they have cold hands I use a little juniper, or if they have the cold i will use sage. Its fantastic way to calm down a client who is upset without resorting to medication and Its a great therapeutic one to one session.

Posts: 1455 · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:46 pm

Very impressive.

Posts: 8478 · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:47 am

thats real cool.. and i have had maple syrup till date:)
i wud say aromatherphy is smell of any kind that has a pleasant and postive effect on u

Posts: 12 · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:40 am

Mmmm... pancakes.

I don't see how this couldn't be a type of aromatherapy.

Feeling happy is enough to help anyone's health, both mentally and physically. Since the smell made you joyous, I don't see how it couldn't be.

Posts: 507 · Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:36 am

EarlofLeicester wrote:

I was cooking pancakes the other day and put some maple syrup in the mix and the place smelled like maple syrup for 3 days. I thought the smell was wonderful, almost joyous. Is this an application of aromatherapy and does maple signify anything?

Hi Earl!!! In my opinion. Yes maple (syrup) is an aromatherapy. Anything that arouses your senses is.
Take toast for example. Is this aromatherapy? Well yes. Everyone I know including me who wake up in the morning smelling toast melt with delight and are immediately making some. Why because the smell has heightened their senses and activated love in there soul. Then your brain says lets eat!!! Then comes taste. With all of these things, you wake up happy with a good start to the day.

Anything with a pleasant aroma is aromatherapy. Remember true maple syrup comes from the Maple tree. Sap from the tree. I'm in Australia and they have found via aborigines the health benefits of Eucalyptus trees, Tee tree and many other forms of Flora.
Honey is an aromatherapy. Most honeys I do not personally like the smell or taste of due to the over sweetness and a flavour that could taste more heavenly to me.
I have since found Blue Gum Honey which I love. Blue gum is a Eucalypt. Other Eucalypt flavours are Yellow Box and Red gum.
My favourite I believe would be the chinese lantern plant used to make honey, as I'm always trying to get nectar from the flowers (only one or two drops per flower). I've done this since I was 3 or 4.
Why am I mentioning food? This is where most of our aromatherapy comes from. It has to smell good to be able to taste good and it has to agree with you personally in order to have the full therapeutic effect. Some aromatherapy agrees with one person but may not agree with another. Hence selling Maple syrup will be over aromatherapy and over stimulation and would be entirely different to having it on pancakes once in a while, once a week etc.

If you are already full with food, food smells becomes aromatherapy.

Summing up if your senses are heightened with Maple syrup use it. I am sure it would have therarutic uses. My guess is it would be warming in the winter. Maybe have a cooling efect in summer.

I'm going to get some now and try it in my oil burner with some water. Science in the making HA HA! Maybe I'll try a few drops in massage oil body cream etc. (I will test on small areas first)

Remember pine, birch, cedar.

I have just found some sites mentioning their products with maple so yes it is an aromatherapy.

I'm still going to experiment. thanks and good luck to you.
Take care when using with fire. I don't know what it does.

Libby.

Ps for you this smell is joyous. Write down your feelings in a journal for each time you use it with the date and summarise for the Seasons. maybe this will help you to figure out what effect it has.

Hope this helps
Libby