As busy and frantic as our lives can be, it often seems like we’ve got no time to stop even when we’re unwell. The ability to have ourselves wind down or even switch off completely is something that seems to be harder to do than ever before. There is, however, the distinct possibility that this way of living - fast and frantic - isn’t helping us in the long or short term, but in fact harming the quality of life that we have when we’re not working or doing life’s daily tasks. The line to be drawn may be fine, but it’s important to think about.
If we’ve figured that there are ways we would like to slow down but we simply can’t because of the demands placed on ourselves, then there needs to be a middle ground. A way of making the absolute most out of the free time that we do have and recharging the batteries that seem to worn down between Monday and Friday (and the rest!). Aromatherapy could genuinely be the answer to the question of how on earth we’re supposed to make the most of winding down in the shards of free time we get so rarely.
The flip-side of working so hard is becoming unwell. Sickness, bugs, and virus’ go around the workplace so often because they’re usually enclosed spaces made up of run down people. What do you do when you get too ill to work, or just too ill to function (but still work)?
When you’ve got that nauseous, sickly feeling in your stomach it is almost impossible to get going. Your stomach starts to sway and you head starts to pound and suddenly the most simple of tasks turn into climbing a mountain twice over. When you’ve got the family to look after (or even just yourself) you can find it overly difficult to think straight. This is where the wonders of aromatherapy come into play.
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Aromatherapy is a type of therapy that - unsurprisingly! - works through the use of aromas and smells to provide a natural remedy for a whole number of ailments - including nausea. I’m hoping to give you some helpful, insightful information that you can put to good use whenever you’re feeling poorly.
Aromatherapy can be done through a whole number of avenues, but the easiest way for the home is either via essential oils extracted from various plants or from creams that use the helpful elements of these oils and turn them into an easy-to-administer balm that can be used in seconds. Aromatherapy in the home is a supremely popular and easy tool to tackle illness in a natural, vegan way.
As alternative medicine and healthy living is becoming more popular and cheaper at the point of sale, increased numbers of people are trying out natural remedies as an alternative way to pumping toxins and tablets into your body. Keep on reading to hear about some of the best types of oils and products to use if you’re looking to give this a go.
What You Can Use for Nausea
Having an upset stomach is such a regular occurrence because it can be caused by so many things. What you eat, what you don’t eat, what you drink, what you don’t drink - I think you get the picture. Bugs and bacteria aren’t the only way to become unwell. When sickness strikes though it is well worth taking a look at a few of the following natural medicines to try and clear away that sickly feeling.
Ginger
Ginger is an incredible food supplement because it has so many natural properties that can help soothe and settle you during illness. The oils when used in the right dosage. Breathing in the vapor produced when added to hot water can calm your mind and help take your mind of the anxious, sickly feeling you’ve been getting. If you’re planning on using creams, getting an aromatherapy cream that has ginger in could be used to rub into your stomach and as such soothing any pains or bloating through gingers natural anti-inflammatory elements. Massaging these oils into your skin can often help with indigestion and nausea brought on by something you’ve eaten.
Take an Aromatherapy Bath!
This is one of the more exciting ways to try and cure your illness because it involved doing absolutely nothing, which is always great. Pour a bath full of hot water and add in 10 drops of an aromatherapy oil of your choice. Ginger, fennel or peppermint are all excellent choices because of their ability to calm inflamed and tender areas of the body, meaning your stomach too. Lay in this bath for a while. The longer you’re there the more time the oil will have to work its wonders on your body. The warm water will also make you less tense, which could be making the nauseous pain even worse.
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Don’t Ingest Oils
If there is one solid bit of advice I can give you here it’s that these oils are not for consuming by mouth. If you’re to mix them into a drink, with it being an oil, they won’t dissolve and they will sit on the top of the drink and do you possible harm in the process. These types of medicine are only for use on your skin or for breathing in. If you’re looking for something to drink, why not look for the suggested flavors when buying tea?
Another nice bit of advice is that you can always mix the oils together, but that’s getting into complicated territory really. Like with foodstuff, mixing aromatherapy oils will give you different effects and can be really beneficial. Using aromatherapy when you’re not ill is also another sage piece of advice. Preventative measures are the only thing better than curative measures, so if you can try and relax your body and mind on a regular basis, your immune system may not go into overdrive when you’re feeling a bit worn down because the service you’re doing for your body while you’re well is helping keep you feeling tip-top if you’re at risk of getting ill.