Top 12 Quotes by Robert Tisserand

Aromatherapy is a caring, hands-on therapy which seeks to induce relaxation, to increase energy, to reduce the effects of stress and to restore lost balance to mind, body and soul.

Aromatherapy is a caring, hands-on therapy which seeks to induce relaxation, to increase energy, to reduce the effects of stress and to restore lost balance to mind, body and soul.

Robert Tisserand

Stress, Caring, Hands

Robert Tisserand (1988). “Aromatherapy: To Heal and Tend the Body”, Lotus Press (WI)

Synthetic or inorganic substances do not contain any 'life force'; they are not dynamic. Everything is made of chemicals, but organic substances like essential oils have a structure which only mother nature can put together. They have a life force, an additional impulse which can only be found in living things.

Robert Tisserand

Mother, Oil, Together

Aromatherapy conveys the concept of healing with aromatic substances.

Robert Tisserand

Healing, Aromatherapy, Substance

Robert Tisserand (1988). “Aromatherapy: To Heal and Tend the Body”, Lotus Press (WI)

Aromatherapy without massage is like an orchestra without a conductor

Robert Tisserand

Aromatherapy, Orchestra, Massage

Love what you do. Enjoy listening to people. It can be hard work, but the potential for helping people is tremendous.

Robert Tisserand

Hard Work, People, Listening

The physical universe was created when Oneness became duality, and we can see this duality, this yin and yang, everywhere in the universe, in every atom, every action, and in every function of the human body. Yin and yang are manifest everywhere, except at the very center of being, the perfect point of balance, at that infinite moment where the future becomes the past.

Robert Tisserand

Spiritual, Past, Oneness

With the increasing demand for holistic health care and the 'green revolution', the demand for aromatherapy will increase, and hopefully we will reach the point where medical doctors incorporate it into their repertoire. It will become routine for doctors to send culture samples to the pharmacist for testing, and identify the relevant aromatherapy for the patient. The stress-relieving properties associated with aromatherapy make it an indispensable part of health care.

Robert Tisserand

Stress, Doctors, Demand

Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India, is not only a classic perfume oil but is also a traditional remedy for sore throats and laryngitis. Lavender oil, so often used in toilet waters and scented sachets, has a dramatic healing action on burns.

Robert Tisserand

Powerful, Healing, Oil

Because the oils work in a different way from antibiotics, they do not have the usual side effects, and they tend to stimulate the immune system instead of depressing it.

Robert Tisserand

Depressing, Oil, Usual

A problem that we're seeing now in the aromatherapy world is that the market has got so huge that in some cases there are not enough plants to supply the demand.

Robert Tisserand

Aromatherapy, World, Demand

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There are a very small number of doctors in France that use essential oils and herbs as well as conventional drugs in their treatments and sometimes they will use essential oils intensively, usually because they are treating people with cancer or chronic infections that patients have had for years, and ingested essential oils are a really a great choice for treating chronic infections if you're a doctor.

Robert Tisserand

Cancer, Doctors, Small Numbers

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