If you are an experienced sportsman or woman or if you are about to become one, we will tell you all our secrets about the benefits of essential oils (aromatherapy).
Particularly effective in facilitating breathing, preparing the muscles,stretching them, avoiding aches and pains, or simply protecting yourself from the winter ailments that slow you down in your training, essential oils will help you get back into sport gently and above all without pain!
BENEFITS OF ESSENTIAL OILS
- Thanks to their very high concentration of active ingredients,essential oils are extremely effective in preventing injuries and contractures or relieving pain and inflammation. They can therefore be quickly indispensable for any sport that involves muscles, tendons and joints.
- Extremely powerful and effective,they can be used by respiratory way (spray to be propelled on a fabric, inhaler etc. . ), by cutaneous way, just a few drops are enough, to be diluted in a vegetable oil type arnica, calophylla inophylla. . . or still by oral way in very weak dose.
- Each essential oil has its own properties:antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, relaxing, detoxifying, healing. . . Used in synergy, essential oils are always more effective.
- Essential oils have an effect on the physical state but also on energy and the nervous system. Unlike many products, the use of these essential oils is not prohibited in the context of high-level competitions and unlike pharmaceutical anti-inflammatory drugs, the use of essential oils to relieve joint or muscle tension through sports massage is without side effects.
Here are some essential oils that are essential in a sportsman's first aid kit
- Peppermint and Eucalyptus: Ideal for hardy sportsmen, stimulating and refreshing, they reduce the sensation of thirst, activate the blood circulation for a better peripheral irrigation. They "open" the lungs, accelerate the cardio-respiratory hook characteristic of long efforts to help find the second breath, and the well-being during the effort.
- Recumbent wintergreen: Excessive effort or a wrong movement, and an intense pain appears in your ankle, elbow or shoulder. Wintergreen is the perfect remedy to soothe the pain. It has very powerful anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties.
- Scots pine: Cortison-like effect, it stimulates the natural production of cortisone, with anti-inflammatory, analgesic and stimulating properties. Ideal after the effort for recovery or before to prepare the body.
Nothing has ever been done better than nature! So think about essential oils.
