Aromaterapia y toxicidad de los aceites esenciales

• Autores: Jacques Pellecuer D
• Localización: Natura Medicatrix: Revista médica para el estudio y difusión de las medicinas alternativas, ISSN 0212-9078, Nº. 37-38 (Invierno), 1994-1995, págs. 36-40
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Aromatherapy and essential ois' toxicity
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  • Essential oils, otherwise named «essences» are complex praducts rich in volatile substances. Old known toxicities are that of Artemisia absinthium. Essential oils rich in thuyjone are convulsivant in weak doses. Bitter orange or Laurel oils are skin irritants. Among secondary effects of essential oils we can quote: Convulsivant, narcotic, skin phototoxicity, abortive, liver toxicity, kidney toxicity, digestive problemas, etc. The essential oils' composition can be different in different times of plant vegetative cycle.