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A little history lesson…

The very first accredited practitioner and mother of Aromatherapy, was by a small enlightened women that brought magic into the lives of the desperate and lost. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a remarkable woman, a "first" in many fields. At a time when few women wrote, Hildegard, known as "Sybil of the Rhine", produced major works of theology and visionary writings. When few women were accorded respect, she was consulted by and advised bishops, popes, and kings. She used the curative powers of natural objects for healing, and wrote treatises about natural history and medicinal uses of plants, animals, trees and stones. She is the first composer whose biography is known. She founded a vibrant convent, where her musical plays were performed. Although not yet canonized, Hildegard has been beatified, and is frequently referred to as St. Hildegard.

Hildegard’s masterful poetics, musical compositions, spiritual scriptures and herbal remedies change our world forever. Her scientific views were derived from the ancient Greek cosmology of the four elements-fire, air, water, and earth-with their complementary qualities of heat, dryness, moisture, and cold, and the corresponding four humors in the body-choler (yellow bile), blood, phlegm, and melancholy (black bile).

Human constitution was based on the preponderance of one or two of the humours. Indeed, we still use words "choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic and melancholy" to describe personalities. Sickness upset the delicate balance of the humors, and only consuming the right plant or animal which had that quality you were missing, could restore the healthy balance to the body. That is why in giving descriptions of plants, trees, birds, animals, stones, Hildegard is mostly concerned in describing that object's quality and giving its medicinal use.

Thus, "Reyan (tansy) is hot and a little damp and is good against all superfluous flowing humors and whoever suffers from catarrh and has a cough, let him eat tansy. It will bind humors so that they do not overflow, and thus will lessen."

Today along with many of these ancient known herbal complexes, Nathalie Van Eeckhoudt’s phyto-aroma techniques and formulations bring a real sense to the term “ Body, Mind and Soul “

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