Influence of Massage with Essential Oils to Human Energy by Korotkov Konstantin and Korotkova Anna in Open Access Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Biosciences (OAJBEB) in Lupine Publishers
Abstract
Context: Massage is the most common complementary and alternative
medicine (CAM) therapy used in hospitals worldwide. As such, it is often the
first CAM therapy to be integrated with conventional medicine. However, there
are no standard approaches to evaluating the effect of massage to patients
mostly taking into account the variety of massage types.
Objective:
The aim of this study was to develop
approach to evaluation the influence of massage with essential oils to the
energy and psycho-physiological condition of people.
Design:
83 participants-volunteers took part
in the experiments. All experiments were conducted in always the same rooms of the
Saint-Petersburg SPA Center (Russia). Specially designed the whole body Energy
massage with 7 different types of essential oils and massage without oils have
been used. All participants were randomly assigned to 8 groups with 10-11
people in each group. For the evaluation process we have used questioners and
Electro photonic Imaging technique (EPI, www.bio-well.com).
Results:
Statistically significant changes in
EPI parameters and emotional state after massage were found.
Conclusion:
Massage has direct influence to the
energy resources of the human body and this role of massage treatment is important
for the use in CAM medical practice, sport and SPA applications. Effect of
essential oils applications strongly depends on individual preferences, but
when selected in accordance with human attention, may increase the influence of
massage. Electro photonic technique (EPI/GDV) offers convenient, non-invasive,
fast and reliable approach to follow up the energy effect of massage.
