Complete Guide to Aromatherapy 3rd Edition Vol 1..

This is the kind of book you open to check one fact and close two hours later, the lamp burned low. Volume 1 of the third edition of Salvatore Battaglia's Complete Guide to Aromatherapy holds only two sections, and both are vast.

It is not a replacement for the second edition. The third edition is planned as two, perhaps three, volumes, and this first one is greatly enlarged.

Details

• Unit 1, Foundations: the holistic role of aromatherapy; its history from Egyptian writings, the ancient spice trade, Rome, alchemy, India and China to modern perfumery and practice; botany; production, from citrus expression and distillation to enfleurage and CO2 extraction; quality and adulteration; safety; methods of use
• Part 2, Materia Medica: 111 essential oils, each with botanical name, synonyms, family, botany and origins, extraction, organoleptic profile, chemistry, adulteration, history and traditional uses, dosage and blending for aromatherapy and perfumery, and a safety profile
• Every chapter and every monograph fully referenced
• Seven pages on frankincense, fifteen on lavender
• Indexed page edges, so the oil you are researching is easy to find

One gap worth knowing: the materia medica includes no CO2 extracts.

For the serious student, this is a reference to grow old with. Give it a shelf of its own.