Aromatherapy: The Science of Essential Oils

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ISBN: 978-981-5136-21-0 (Print)
ISBN: 978-981-5136-20-3 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2024
DOI: 10.2174/97898151362031240101

Introduction

Aromatherapy is a medical practice that uses aromatic compounds or essential oils to influence mood and health. Essential oils used in aromatherapy are created from a wide variety of medicinal plants, flowers, herbs, roots, and trees that are found all over the world and have significant, well-documented benefits on enhancing physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.

This book is a comprehensive reference on aromatic compounds present in essential oils and their therapeutic use. Starting from fundamentals of essential oil biosynthesis the book guides the reader through their basic biochemistry, toxicology, profiling, blending and clinical applications. The concluding chapters also present focused information about the therapeutic effects of essential oils on specific physiological systems, plant sources, skin treatment and cancer therapeutics.

The combination of basic and applied knowledge will provide readers with all the necessary information for understanding how to develop preclinical formulations and standard clinical therapies with essential oils. This is an essential reference for anyone interested in aromatherapy and the science of essential oils.

Readership:

Medicinal chemists, pharmacologists and herbalists; health care practitioners in the field of alternative and complementary medicine.

Contributors

Contributor(s):
Alka Sagar
Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology
Meerut, UP
India


Ashwani Kumar
Department of Entomology
Naini Agricultural Institute,
Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture,
Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj
Uttar Pradesh
India


Archana Shukla
Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science
Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture,
Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj
Uttar Pradesh
India


Angel Kushwaha
Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering
Jacob Institute of Biotechnology and Bioengineering,
Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture,
Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj
Uttar Pradesh
India


Ajeet Kumar Srivastav
Redcliffe Hygiene Private Limited
Gurugram-122016
Haryana
India
/
Department of Biochemistry
Babu Banrasi Das University
Lucknow
India


Arun K. Chaurasia
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding
Naini Agricultural Institute,
Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture,
Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj
Uttar Pradesh
India


Chirag Maheshwari
ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering
Navi Bagh, Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh-462038
India
/
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute
Pusa
New Delhi-110012
India


Deepti Chopra
Photobiology Laboratory
Systems Toxicology and Health Risk Assessment Group,
CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research Vishvigyan Bhavan 31, P.O. Box No. 80
M.G. Marg Lucknow-226001
India


Divya Dubey
Photobiology Laboratory
Systems Toxicology and Health Risk Assessment Group,
CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Vishvigyan Bhavan 31
P.O. Box No. 80, M.G. Marg, Lucknow-226001
India


Eugenia P. Lal
Department of Biological Sciences
Faculty of Science, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture,
Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj
Uttar Pradesh
India


Gagan Sharma
Redcliffe Hygiene Private Limited
Gurugram-122016
Haryana
India


Ghanshyam Pandey
Department of Plant Protection and Plant Pathology
Naini Agricultural Institute,
Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture,
Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj
Uttar Pradesh
India


Jyoti Singh
Photobiology Laboratory
Systems Toxicology and Health Risk Assessment Group,
CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research,
Vishvigyan Bhavan 31
P.O. Box No. 80, M.G. Marg, Lucknow-226001
India


Jaya Upadhyay
Department of Gastroenterology
Sanjay Gandhi Post graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh
India


Lakshmi Bala
Department of Biochemistry
Babu Banrasi Das University
Lucknow
India


Muzaffar Hasan
ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering
Navi Bagh, Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh
India


Mohd. Danish Kamar
Photobiology Laboratory
Systems Toxicology and Health Risk Assessment Group,
CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research,
Vishvigyan Bhavan 31
P.O. Box No. 80, M.G. Marg, Lucknow-226001
India
/
Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research
AcSIR Headquarters, CSIR-HRDC Campus,
Sector 19, Kamla Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad-201002
Uttar Pradesh
India


Manoj Kumar Tripathi
ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering
Navi Bagh, Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh-462038
India


Pragati Misra
Centre for Tissue Culture Technology,
Jacob Institute of Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture,
Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj
Uttar Pradesh
India


Pradeep Kumar Shukla
Department of Biological Sciences
Faculty of Science, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture
Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh
India


Priyanka Spring
Department of Botany
Abhilashi PG Institute of Science, Mandi, Himanchal Pradesh University
Himanchal Pradesh
India


Rahul M. Srivastava
Maulana Azad National Institute of Agricultural Engineering
Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh
India


Rajpal S. Jadam
ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering
Navi Bagh, Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh-462038
India


Shikha Agnihotry
Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Jacob Institute of Biotechnology and Bio-Engineering,
Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture,
Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj (Allahabad)
Uttar Pradesh
India


Sandeep Negi
Photobiology Laboratory
Systems Toxicology and Health Risk Assessment Group,
CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research Vishvigyan Bhavan 31
P.O. Box No. 80, M.G. Marg Lucknow-226001
India


Shambhavi Pandey
Department of Forensic Sciences
Faculty of Science, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture,
Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj
Uttar Pradesh
India


Suman Sanju
Department of Botany
Abhilashi PG Institute of Science, Mandi, Himanchal Pradesh University
Himanchal Pradesh
India


Suchit Ashish John
Department of Biological Sciences
Faculty of Science, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture,
Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj
Uttar Pradesh
India


Shailesh Marker
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding
Naini Agricultural Institute,
Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture,
Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj
Uttar Pradesh
India


Saumya Shukla
Photobiology Laboratory
Systems Toxicology and Health Risk Assessment Group,
CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research,
Vishvigyan Bhavan 31
P.O. Box No. 80, M.G. Marg, Lucknow-226001
India
/
Department of Biochemistry
School of Dental Sciences, Babu Banarasi Das University, BBD City
Faizabad Road, Lucknow-226028, Uttar Pradesh
India


Sakshi Yadav
Photobiology Laboratory
Systems Toxicology and Health Risk Assessment Group,
CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research,
Vishvigyan Bhavan 31
P.O. Box No. 80, M.G. Marg, Lucknow-226001
India
/
Department of Botany
University of Lucknow
Lucknow-226007
India