Aromatherapy and the Treatment of Fibromyalgia Fibrositis

It doesn’t matter what your doctor says, you know you are suffering from fibromyalgia or fibrositis, and you are fed up with being fobbed off! Read on for some helpful tips and advice to help you manage and improve your pain and get some back pain relief.The use of pure essential oils from plants has been around thousands of years, and the health-promoting essences are commonly used for the treatment and relief of many conditions.Although the label of ‘Aromatherapy’ is a relatively new one, ancient physicians were highly skilled in the administration of volatile plant extracts and understood the effects they had on the human body and mind. Unlike today, ancient physicians were paid to keep patients healthy, so they used essential oils on a daily basis to help promote the beneficial effects in daily life, and often helped to reduce or eliminate an ailment before it could become a problem.Aromatherapy is a very gentle form of treatment, therefore ordinary people can benefit from the health-boosting use of essential oils at home without the worry of visiting a specialist for some back pain relief. However, for more specific conditions such as fibromyalgia, it is recommended that you consult a trained Aromatherapist who can apply their professional knowlege and skill on a regular basis to relieve the condition. Supporting your professional sessions at home with soothing and relaxing essential oils can only help the fibromyalgia sufferer to manage their symptoms.The beneficial combination of massage and essential oils is very soothing and relaxing in itself, but you are also gaining the healing and balancing scents through your nose as you breath, resulting in a balancing and restorative calm to your body and mind. This can often give you beneficial side effects such as better digestion, healthier skin, and an overall improvement in your general mood, health and well-being.Using a calming blend of essential oils on a regular basis can go far to help strengthen your immune system. Something as simple as applying a few drops of oil to a handkerchief and carrying it with you can help to calm you down, sooth your stress, and generally give you a bit of support and resolve to get through whatever stressful situation you may find yourself facing.Fibromyalgia is believed to be stress-related, so you can help keep the atmosphere calm and stress-free at work or at home by placing around your office or home a dish of essential oil scented wooden balls.Once home after a particularly stressful work day, taking a relaxing bath with the addition of essential oils can go a long way to help relieve symptoms of fibromyalgia, calming your mind, soothing your spirits, giving you some back pain relief, and preparing your body for a restful and peaceful night's sleep.The use of a vaporiser or oil burner can be very beneficial, filling the air with a larger dose of soothing and calming essential oils than using scented wooden balls alone. Care must be taken when using an oil burner because of the obvious fire risks associated with the use of candles. Our Neglected Sense of SmellThis modern world of ours is highly dominated by sound and vision with TV, Radio and the like, so we don’t rely nearly as much on our sense of smell as we used to.When a baby is born, it senses it’s mother and the security she offers by smell, and as a baby doesn’t have fully developed eyesight, smell develops as the main and keenest of its senses. We know not to eat a rotten fruit, vegetable or other piece of food that doesn’t smell quite right even if sometimes it looks ok, and it is that ‘unpleasant’ smell that creates a reaction in us, making us feel sick, or giving us a headache.In the same way, inhaling a potent aromatherapy oil can invoke a reaction of cheerfulness, clarity of thought, stimulation or reviving flagging spirits, calming relaxation, or pleasure.With fibromyalgia sufferers who by nature can feel anxious or be stressed out easily, the best sort of essential oils to use are soothing and calming ones that can help ease stress, and in some cases prevent an attack coming on, or lessening the effects.Easing stress and tension with the following essential oils is recommended, and you can safely use these oils in massage, oil burners or vaporisers, and in your bath at home:Basil, bergamot, chamomile, clary sage, geranium, lavender, neroli, sweet orange, rose, and ylang ylang.A suggested blend of relaxing oils for use to scent the home, in your bath or oil burner would be the following: 3 drops of sweet orange, 4 drops of neroli and 3 drops of ylang ylang.When you seek out a therapist, make sure you check they are fully qualified and experienced enough to treat your specific needs. You should feel comfortable and at ease with your therapist and be able to establish a trusting relationship. Try out sessions with different therapists to find the one you are most happy with before committing to a course of aromatherapy massage treatments.For more indepth information about managing your fibromyalgia, fibrositis and back pain, visit http://expertbackpain.weebly.com or http://www.backpaincompendium.com