Journal article
The modern paradigm of aromatherapy is based on in vitro assays of pure volatile organic compounds (as an essential oil), with activity at non-clinically significant concentrations. Yet traditional use of aromatic species did not involve pure essential oils because hydrodistillation was only invented in relatively recent times (estimated 1200 AD)....
Sadgrove,
Nicholas J.
Buchu, Khoi (African people), Khoi-San, Antimicrobial, San (African people), Ethnopharmacology, Southern Africa, Ethnobotany, Essential oil, Aromatherapy, Medicinal, Volatile, and Africa
