아로마세라피 효용성에 관한 연구 = (A) Study on the Effect of Aromatherapy

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

As alternative therapies that activate natural curability so as to prevent diseases and improve health began to be highlighted all over the world, alternative therapy has been attracting hot interest in our country as well starting from the late 1990′s. Aromatherapy, one of natural therapies, is thought to have a potential to work in physical, mental, and even emotional cure, and so widely applicable to the moderns who are suffering form psychic disorders and diseases. This article started from this.
The purpose of the study was to investigate the usefulness of aroma therapy which aims at accomplishing balance and harmony among human's body, mind, and soul so as to keep the best health, from the aspect of skin care, hair and scalp, and fatness control, and to seek for measures to use it in alternative therapy and to use and apply the medicinal herbs in our country, and so finally to provide useful materials for improving beauty and health. As the results of investigation on the usefulness of aromatherapy for skin care, hair and scalp management, and fatness control, it was found that beneficial constituents of aroma enhanced immunity and gave an effect to hormone function so that it detoxified the toxic substances in the body and boosted cell renewal to cure skin diseases. It was effective in prevention and cure of kinds of physical diseases and even psychological stability. This suggested that aroma therapy is very effective in hair and scalp management, skin care, and fatness control.
These results confirmed one more time that the alternative therapy we are searching for, who have experienced contaminated environment and nature and kinds of stress, has begun along with human being's history and used most suitable method to human's body and emotion and the materials necessary to the natural environment of each country.
Taking account that promotion of the usefulness of and expansion of the applicability of aroma therapy now centered on western herbal medicines and herbs could expand its commerciality and culture to the bottom, potential application and future prospect of herbal medicines and herbs were presented here to demonstrate the usefulness of our country's herbal medicines and to broaden the application.
The findings made it clear that aromatherapy for health and beauty is such a method using the plants in nature that is most suitable to human's body and emotion, and is an effective way in boosting up health and beauty through prevention and cure of diseases of the moderns who are living with the side effects of science civilization. The usefulness of aroma as an alternative therapy demonstrated that aromatherapy has a very wide range of application. Through the usefulness and the application of herbal plants in our country, it made a change to inform the superiority of the constituents and to expand the application, and to view the prospect.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목차
• Ⅰ. 서론 = 1
• Ⅱ. 아로마세라피의 이론적 고찰 = 4
• A. 아로마세라피의 역사 = 4
• B. 에센셜오일의 특성 = 8
• C. 캐리어 오일(Carrier oils)의 특성 = 17
• D. 아로마세라피의 적용방법 = 21
• Ⅲ. 아로마세라피의 효용성 = 27
• A. 피부미용에 관한 아로마세라피 = 27
• B. 모발 및 두피에 관한 아로마세라피 = 32
• C. 비만관리에 관한 아로마세라피. = 36
• Ⅳ. 아로마세라피를 이용한 대체요법 = 42
• A. 하이드로세라피 = 42
• B. 아유르베다 = 49
• C. 약초요법 = 57
• Ⅴ. 우리나라의 아로마세라피 활용과 전망 = 64
• A. 약초의 역사 = 64
• B. 약초의 이용 = 66
• C. 약초의 활용 = 70
• Ⅵ. 결론 = 73
• 참고문헌 = 76
• ABSTRACT = 81