Lavender Oil (25 page)

Read Lavender Oil Online

Authors: Julia Lawless

BOOK: Lavender Oil
4.55Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

Buy the ebook
here

Buy the ebook
here

Buy the ebook
here

References
Introduction

                              
1
.
  
Extract from ‘L’histoire de la Jouvencelle, Lieutenante des Oiseaux’, a story from
Mille et une Nuits
(A Thousand and One Nights) cited in C. Meunier,
Lavandes et Lavandins
(Paris: Edisud, 1985), p. 5 transl. by S. Alcock.

                              
2
.
  
C. Isherwood,
A Bunch of Sweet Lavender
(Hitchin, Paternoster and Hales, brochure on the lavender industry [copy in Miss Lewis’ private lavender museum in 1977]).

The Scent of Times Past

                              
1
.
  
S. Festing,
The Story of Lavender
(London Borough of Sutton Libraries and Arts Services, 1982), p. 31.

                              
2
.
  
Mitcham News
, 20th July 1934.

                              
3
.
  
From a poem by M. E. Davies in
Hitchin Grammar School Magazine
c.1960, cited in Festing,
Story of Lavender
, p. 39.

                              
4
.
  
A. K. Singh, S. Ashok and O. P. Virmani, ‘Cultivation of Lavender for its Oil – A Review’,
Current Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
5.1 (1983), p. 54.

A Traditional European Folk Remedy

                              
1
.
  
Dioscorides,
The Greek Herbal
(ed. R. T. Gunther; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1937).

                              
2
.
  
Y. R. Naves and B. Mazuyer,
Natural Perfume Materials
(New York: Reinhold, 1947), p. 5.

                              
3
.
  
Hildegarde,
Patrologia Latina
(ed. Migne; vol. 197, from
Liber subtilitatum diversarum naturarum creaturarum
, 1150–60).

                              
4
.
  
J. Gerarde, cited in R. Tisserand,
The Art of Aromatherapy
(C. W. Daniel, 1979), p. 246.

                              
5
.
  
N. Culpeper,
Culpeper’s Complete Herbal
(W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd, 1952), p. 210.

                              
6
.
  
W. Salmon, cited in Festing,
Story of Lavender
, p. 28.

Modern Medical Evidence

                              
1
.
  
M. Grieve,
A Modern Herbal
(Penguin, 1982), p. 472.

                              
2
.
  
Dr J. Valnet,
The Practice of Aromatherapy
(C. W. Daniel, 1980), p. 148.

                              
3
.
  
R. M. Gattefossé,
Gattefossé’s Aromatherapy
(C. W. Daniel, 1993), p. 106.

                              
4
.
  
M. Maury,
Marguerite Maury’s Guide to Aromatherapy
(C. W. Daniel, 1989), p. 85.

                              
5
.
  
‘Aromatherapy on the Wards’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
1.2 (1988), p. 8.

                              
6
.
  
J. Guillemain, A. Rousseau and P. Delaveau, in
Ann. Pharm. Fr
47.6 (1989), pp. 337–43.

                              
7
.
  
A. Y. Leung,
Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients
(New York: Wiley, 1980), p. 215.

                              
8
.
  
M. Hardy, ‘Sweet Scented Dreams’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
3.2 (1991), p. 13.

                              
9
.
  
G. Buchbauer, L. Jirovetz, W. Jager, H. Dietrich and C. Plank, in
Z. Naturforsch C
46 (Nov.–Dec. 1991), pp. 1067–72.

                            
10
.
  
R. Lewis,
Natural Therapies Database
, Aromatherapy Vol. I, printed by R. Harris, p. 13.

                            
11
.
  
A. Woolfson and D. Hewitt, ‘Intensive Aromacare’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
4.2 (1992), p. 13.

                            
12
.
  
J. Buckle, ‘Aromatherapy – Research in Practice’,
Nursing Times
89.20 (May 19, 1993), p. 32.

                            
13
.
  
Buckle, ‘Aromatherapy’, p. 35.

Production, Chemical Composition and Quality Control

                              
1
.
  
A. O. Tucker and B. M. Lawrence, ‘Herbs, Spices and Medicinal Plants’, vol. 2 (Oryx Press, 1987).

                              
2
.
  
Cited in Festing,
Story of Lavender
, p. 77.

Summary of the Properties and Applications of Lavender Oil

                              
1
.
  
J. Lawless,
Aromatherapy and the Mind
(Thorsons, 1994), p. 77.

                              
2
.
  
Cited in Tisserand,
Art of Aromatherapy
, p. 100.

                              
3
.
  
P. Holmes, ‘Lavender Oil – A Study in Contradictions’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
4.2, 1992.

A–Z

                              
1
.
  
A Marshall, ‘Problem Skin’,
Aromatherapy Quarterly
8 (1985), p. 12.

                              
2
.
  
Lawless,
Aromatherapy and the Mind
, p. 77.

                              
3
.
  
Lawless,
Aromatherapy and the Mind
, p. 80.

                              
4
.
  
S. Macnish, ‘The Soothing Touch’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
3.2 (1991), p. 19.

                              
5
.
  
D. Falt, ‘Asthma’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
3.4 (1991), p. 32.

                              
6
.
  
Gattefossé, ‘Dr Marchand’s Observations’, in
idem, Gattefossé’s Aromatherapy
, p. 90.

                              
7
.
  
M. Dambach-Sinclair, ‘Miraculous Healing’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
3.4 (1991), p. 32.

                              
8
.
  
Gattefossé, ‘Dr Marchand’s Observations’, in
idem, Gattefossé’s Aromatherapy
, p. 90.

                              
9
.
  
Dr Ann Coxon, Consultant Physician and Neurologist, from ‘Prescribing Aromatherapy’,
Aromatherapy Quarterly
31 (Winter 1991), p. 9.

                            
10
.
  
Grieve,
Modern Herbal
, p. 472.

                            
11
.
  
Dr T. Betts, ‘Sniffing the Breeze’,
Aromatherapy Quarterly
40 (1994), p. 22.

                            
12
.
  
Meunier,
Lavendes
, p. 198.

                            
13
.
  
P. Allardice, Lavender (Robert Hale, 1991), p. 57.

                            
14
.
  
‘Progress in Essential Oils: Lavender Oil’,
Perfumer & Flavorist
18 (Jan./Feb. 1993), p. 58.

                            
15
.
  
P. Davis,
Aromatherapy – an A–Z
(C. W. Daniel, 1988), p. 166.

                            
16
.
  
Davis, A–Z, p. 173.

                            
17
.
  
Holmes, ‘Study in Contradictions’, p. 22.

                            
18
.
  
Valnet,
Practice of Aromatherapy
, p. 148.

                            
19
.
  
A. Ascham,
The Little Herball
(1525).

                            
20
.
  
Davis, A–Z, p. 200.

                            
21
.
  
C. Cunningham, ‘Whiplash’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
3.1 (1991), p. 24.

                            
22
.
  
J. Basnyet, from a lecture given to midwives entitled ‘Aromatherapy in Ante- and Postnatal Care’,
Aromatherapy Times
18 (Winter 1992), p. 11.

                            
23
.
  
A. Dale,
Journal of Advanced Nursing
(1994) issue 19, pp. 89–96.

                            
24
.
  
J. Gingell, ‘PMT’,
Aromatherapy Quarterly
8 (1985), p. 12.

                            
25
.
  
Holmes, ‘Study in Contradictions’, p. 21.

                            
26
.
  
Rovesti, cited in Tisserand,
Art of Aromatherapy
, p. 98.

                            
27
.
  
Coxon, ‘Prescribing Aromatherapy’, p. 9.

                            
28
.
  
Gattefossé, ‘Dr Meurisse’s Observations’, in
idem, Gattefossé’s Aromatherapy
, p. 94.

                            
29
.
  
Gattefossé, ‘Dr Marchand’s Observations’, in
idem, Gattefossé’s Aromatherapy
, p. 90.

The Different Types of Lavender Oil

                              
1
.
  
A. O. Tucker and K. J. W. Hensen, ‘The Cultivars of Lavender and Lavandin’,
Baileya
22 (1985).

The Constituents of Lavender Oil

                              
1.
  
Dr Brian M. Lawrence, ‘Progress in Essential Oils’ in
Perfumer & Flavorist
(1993) issue no. 18, pp. 58–61.

Bibliography

P. Allardice,
Lavender
(Robert Hale, 1991).

‘Aromatherapy on the Wards’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
1.2 (1988).

Aqua Oleum,
The Essential Oil Catalogue
(Aqua Oleum, 1994).

J. Basnyet, ‘Aromatherapy in Ante- and Postnatal Care’,
Aromatherapy Times
18 (Winter 1992).

Dr T. Betts, ‘Sniffing the Breeze’,
Aromatherapy Quarterly
40 (1994).

R. Blackwell, ‘An insight into Aromatic Oils: Lavender and Tea Tree’,
British Journal of Phytotherapy
2.1 (Spring 1991).

British Herbal Pharmacopeia
(BHMA, 1983).

J. and M. Brunner, ‘Lavender and Marjoram’,
The Herbal Review
(Winter 1982).

Other books

The Avignon Quintet by Durrell, Lawrence
The Maelstroms Eye by Roger Moore
By the Numbers by Jen Lancaster
Silent Cry by Dorothy J. Newton
Mantrapped by Fay Weldon
A Cat's Chance in Hell by Hannaford, Sharon
Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi