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How safe are essential oils?

精油有多安全？

FEBRUARY 13, 2011 by JONATHAN HINDE

How safe are essential oils? I get asked this quite a lot. And if you don’t mind, I am going to answer it with another question: How safe are plants?

Do you see the point? It is totally impossible to generalise. Some plants are great to eat; some taste horrid; some are poisons. And it is just as hard to generalise about essential oils, which are, after all, simply plant essences. Sometimes you will read that it is dangerous to use essential oils directly on the skin. And certainly for some oils this is true. But equally some are quite safe.

精油有多安全？ 我被問了很多。 如果您不介意，我將用另一個問題回答：植物有多安全？

你明白這一點嗎？ 完全不可能一概而論。 有些植物很好吃； 有點恐怖 有些是毒藥。 概括地說，精油畢竟只是植物精油，這也很難一概而論。 有時您會讀到直接在皮膚上使用精油是危險的。 對於某些油來說，當然是這樣。 但是同樣有些安全。

Do you know the story about Rene-Maurice Gattefosse, who is the first person to coin the term ‘aromatherapy’, and is generally considered to be the ‘father’ of modern day use of essential oils?

Gattefosse was doing research on essential oils, but suffered bad burns to his hands as a result of a laboratory explosion. According to the story, ‘without thinking’ he plunged the affected areas into neat Lavender oil. He was totally amazed to find that his skin healed dramatically, and quickly, without scarring.  So maybe aromatherapy actually owes its existence to the fact that you can use lavender essential oils neat on the skin.

您是否知道有關Rene-Maurice Gattefosse的故事，他是第一個創造“芳香療法”一詞的人，通常被認為是現代使用精油的“父親”？

Gattefosse當時正在研究精油，但由於實驗室爆炸而被燙傷。 根據故事，他“沒有考慮”就將受災地區陷入純淨的薰衣草油中。 他為自己的皮膚迅速，無傷痕地癒合而感到驚訝。 因此，也許香薰療法的存在實際上是由於您可以在皮膚上使用純淨的薰衣草精油。

So the answer is to proceed with caution, by all means. Spend a little time reading up about the properties of essential oils, and find out which are the ones you need to be most careful with. But absolutely don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. A sense of proportion please, and always bear in mind that there may be much greater risk factors if we choose not to use essential oils, and instead turn to allopathic medicine.

The opponents to aromatherapy would argue on the one hand that aromatherapy is ineffectual, but on the other that it can be dangerous. They can’t have it both ways.

因此，答案是一定要謹慎行事。 花一點時間閱讀有關精油的屬性，並找出最需要注意的那些。 但是絕對不要把嬰兒和洗澡水一起扔出去。 請保持一定的比例感，並始終牢記，如果我們選擇不使用精油，而轉向同種療法藥物，則可能存在更大的風險因素。

反對芳香療法的人一方面會認為芳香療法是無效的，但另一方面可能會很危險。 他們不能兩全其美。