WHAT IS AROMATHERAPY
Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils from plants to treat many different ailments, both physical and mental.
The use of aromatherapy goes back many years and even centuries old.
Essential oils have a balancing effect. Help the body to find the balance needed to regain health. Also, many of them have antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal, very interesting for use in veterinary medicine.
They can be used as hot or cold, in the form of creams or lotions, shampoos, by inhalation, etc …
Although essential oils are quite safe before use in animals should take precautions, as they are wont lick any foreign substance that apply to the skin. Therefore, we must use properly diluted, and prevent the animal to suck the skin or hair immediately after use.
Personally I use them mainly for skin conditions, diluted in a neutral carrier oil or cream, or shampoo the animal.
Among my favorites are the essential oils of Tea Tree (Tea Tree), Lavender, Eucalyptus, Peppermint, Rosemary, Bergamot, Chamomilla, Geranium, Thyme, etc …
THE TEA TREE OIL FOR CARE OF ANIMALS
This wonderful essential oil from Australia, also known as Tea Tree and obtained from the tree Melaleuca alternifolia, can be used to treat many ailments of our beloved animals, replacing or helping to conventional treatments.
We all know that from being used antibiotics are appearing massively increasing resistance to them. Well, here is a product with a bactericidal, fungicidal and virucidal, among others. It is therefore very interesting that can be used to fight infections of these types with virtually no side effects. This does not mean to certain bacterial or fungal diseases must not be used conventional treatments (antibiotics, antiseptics, fungicides), but we could book them for the really serious cases where an antibiotic given in time can save lives.
The Tea Tree Oil can be used in all animals, although we will use it with caution in cats (as they may ingest because of their cleaning habits as they are very sensitive to smell, so we use it diluted) and in puppies and small pets diluido.Este preferably be used where oil can be used in several forms: pure, diluted in a carrier oil (olive, wheat germ, almonds, etc..), in water, shampoo, in any cream or lotion. If we are going to use pure, we note that a small percentage of people or animals can be allergic. We prove the first by applying a few drops in an area of skin free of hair and if it appears persistent skin redness or itching, and test water will wash with diluted oil.
Here are some recipes that you can help:
- Against external parasites of our pets: fleas are easily removed by bathing the animal with a shampoo commercial tea tree oil shampoo or adding to the usual 20 to 50 drops of pure oil to 100 ml of shampoo. Beware that between shampoo in the eyes! We’ll act 10 minutes and clarify. Then you brush to remove as many eggs as possible, and repeat the bathroom at 4 or 5 days until you have cleared the parasites. Keep in mind that fleas lay hundreds of eggs, which are animal hair off and remain in the environment, which after several days out new fleas. In this case, use a vacuum cleaner to deep clean the animal’s environment and eliminate the possibility of a new infestation. Ticks are more difficult to remove. For this, we can apply a drop of pure oil directly on the parasite and, after a few minutes, turning with tongs extract. If your pet is “superinfestada” with these nasty parasites can do the same operation as with fleas. As a precaution we can make a lotion with 20 drops of pure oil in 100 ml of distilled water with pulverized to our animal several times a week. We should note that in particular ticks, can transmit to animals and humans different diseases as serious infeccionasas: Ehrilichiosis, Babesiosis, Borreliosis (Lyme disease), etc., And here we see the “pros” and ” cons of treating our animals with a conventional ectoparasite Use Tea Tree Oil. You decide. Anyway, you can always use pure or diluted oil to soothe the itching and help heal the wounds caused by the bites of the parasites or by scratching the animal .- against mites in the ears: If you are looking for alternative products used to combat these parasites from the ear (based on lindane, carbaryl and other insecticides), then carefully swab soaked in pure essential oil in the ear, or add 20 drops to 100 ml of an ear cleanser. Repeat every day and have patience.
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