Essential Oils in History
"Apparently the three wise men displayed
true wisdom when they made an offering of myrrh to the newborn
Jesus. Piero Dolara, a chemist at the University of Florence in
Italy, and his colleagues find that secretions of the thorny flowering
shrub Commiphora--prized by ancient Mediterraneans for medicine,
perfume, and embalming--indeed possess long-rumored analgesic
properties."
From "Treasures of Tutankhamun", published
by 7 Museums including the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, who
participated in the national showing of this collection of ancient
Egyptian artifacts, describing a vase found in Tutankhamun's tomb:
"Some fifty alabaster (calcite) vases for
unguents were found in the tomb, nearly all of them emptied of
their contents by thieves in a second visitation (the tomb had
also been robbed in antiquity of objects made of precious metals).
It has been estimated that the total quantity of unguent placed
in the tomb amounted to about 105 U.S. gallons (400 liters). That
the robbers should have risked their lives to obtain it and also
that they should have chosen it in preference to the many other
treasures at their mercy would alone prove that it was a costly
commodity. The vases being heavy and, in the case of this vessel
and four others of the same general character, too large to move
through the tunnel, the robbers poured the precious oils into
water skins for removal. Chemical analysis of the contents of
one of these vessels found intact showed that the principle constituent
was animal fat, to which some resin or balsam had been added,
while cedar oil was identified as the base ingredient of another
specimen. The perfume was extracted from flowers, gums, resins,
and other fragrant substances by wringing them in cloths and squeezing
out the odoriferous liquids."
From "Aromatherapy, A Complete Guide to the Healing Art"
by Kathi Keville & Mindy Green:
"In the 13th and 14th centuries, Italy
monopolized the Easter trade established during the Crusades.
The guilds--grocers, spicers, apothecaries, perfumers and glovers--controlled
the import of enormous quantities of spices used to disinfect
cities against the plague and other maladies."
... "Like other indigenous peoples around
the world, the Native Americans had a long history of burning
incense and using scented ointments. Throughout the Americas,
massage with fragrant oils was a common form of therapy."
From "The Art of Aromatherapy" by Robert Tisserand:
"The plague was the scourge of the Middle
Ages...Perfumed candles were burned in sickrooms and hospitals;
pomanders were hung from silver chains around the neck, and perfumes
were in great demand. Every aromatic substance available seems
to have been used in one form or another to combat the Black Death.
Aromatics were the best antiseptics available at the time, and
the people knew it. Exactly how effective these measure were can
only be surmised, but it has been widely reported that those in
closest contact with aromatics, especially the perfumers, were
virtually immune. Since all aromatics are antiseptic it is likely
that some of those used were indeed effective protection against
the plague."
From the Bible
"Then took Mary a pound of ointment of
spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped
his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor
of the ointment."
-- John 12:3
There are over 150 other references to essential
oils in the Bible, many to the oil of frankincense.
From “Advanced Aromatherapy, the Science of Essential
Oil Therapy” by Kurt Schnaubelt, Ph.D.:
As aromatherapy slowly gained acceptance by
conventional medicine [in France], Henri Viaud made new demands
for the purity of essential oils. …In retrospect,
it is clear that the greatest advance made in the development
of aromatherapy was the return to genuine oils derived exclusively
from one species of plant. Only then did some producers in France
begin to manufacture oils according to these requirements.
This was the birth of modern aromatherapy.”
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