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Veda Aid products contain certified essential and herbal oils specially researched to provide the most effective combination for the relief of 'Daily Aches and Pain'
The range is being developed in close cooperation with Ayurvedic specialists based in Asia. By combining their knowledge with globally sourced ingredients we have created an active product range. All these ingredients are finely blended to a secret process and immediately packaged into glass ampules to maintain purity and effectiveness. We also flush out all the oxygen and replace it with nitrogen gas, this helps the finest molecules to maintain their therapeutic properties for a very long time.
We use over thirty individual component ingredients from all over the world during our manufacture process and we are pleased to provide information on some of these in this section.
Essential oils are highly concentrated extracts from plants, herbs and flowers. There are more than 300 types of oils that can be extracted. The term "100% pure and natural essential oil" is used to describe oils that contain only the extract of a particular plant. They are 75-100 times more potent than dried herbs and should be used with care. They are also sensitive to sunlight and should be stored in dark bottles and kept in a cool area.
These oils have distinctive therapeutic, psychological and physiological properties that improve health and prevent illness. All essential oils have unique healing and valuable antiseptic properties. Some oils are anti-bacterial, anti- biotic, anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving, hormone regulating, anti-depressant, stimulating, relaxing and expectorating. Some support digestion and have diuretic properties too.
Essential oils get absorbed into our body and exert an influence on it. The residue gets dispersed from the body naturally. They can also affect our mind and emotions. They enter the body in three ways: by inhalation, absorption and consumption.
Some of them are light liquids, insoluble in water and evaporate instantly when exposed to air. It would take 100 kg of Lavender to yield 3 kg of Lavender oil; and 8 million Jasmine flowers to yield barely 1 kg of Jasmine oil. Some of these aroma oils are very expensive. They are used singularly or in combination to bring about restorative and curative processes in the mind and body, offering a gentle alternative to medicinal drugs.
When essential oils are applied, they are absorbed through the skin into the blood stream and carried through the whole body, helping to balance its natural functions. When chemically analysed, each essential oil contains many, often hundreds of compounds. Each compound has a different therapeutic effect.
Orthodox medicine is very good at understanding each individual compound and its effect on the body, e.g. the effect of everyday chemical compounds, such as aspirin. When nature mixes hundreds of compounds together in tiny proportions as in the case of essential oils, the interaction of all these parts is, so far, too complex for science to analyse or understand. The term synergistic reaction is used when the mixture of all the compounds has a more potent effect than can be explained by the individual compounds being added up. Essential oils are nature's potent remedies which work in harmony with the body. The body takes from each remedy what it needs. This accounts for the surprising fact that one essential oil can act as either a relaxant or a stimulant.
Composition
The therapeutic information on each oil is for educational use only, and is based on traditional uses and the chemical composition. There are eight predominant chemical groups involved in the composition of essential oils and each group contributes a particular therapeutic quality. Chemical analysis using the method of Gas Liquid Chromatography (GLC) means the purity of the oil can be assessed, and the presence of any foreign ingredients can be spotted – for example, artificial fertilisers or pesticides – in oils claimed to have been organically grown.
The eight main chemical groups found in essential oils are Aldehydes, Esters, Ketones, Phenyl Methyl Ethers, Oxides, Phenols, Alcohols and Mono Terpenes.
Aldehydes ~ anti-infectious, analgesic, anti-inflammatory; they also help regulate the central nervous system geraniol, found in e.g. Rose Geranium (pelagoniun graveolens)
Esters ~ calming, sedative, and they help regulate the central nervous system they are also anti-spasmodic, and mucolytic (breaks down mucous) linalyl, found in e.g. Lavender (lavandula angustifolia), 40%
Ketones ~ anti-infectious, skin healing, mucolytic, lipolytic (breaks down fats), aides respiratory tract infections verbenone, found in e.g. Rosemary (rosmarinus official)
Phenyl Methyl Ethers ~ anti-infectious, anti-spasmodic, oestrogen-like and therefore can help regulate hormonal system as well as help regulate central nervous system chavicol, found in e.g. Basil (ocimum basilicum)
Oxides ~ expectorant, some are anti-infectious cineole or eucalyptole, found in e.g. Eucalyptus (globulus) 70%.
Alcohols ~ anti-pathogenic, immune-stimulants linalol, found in e.g. Lavender (lavandula angustifolia).
Phenols ~ strongly anti-pathogenic, stimulating. (NB, some are dermocaustic) thymol, found in e.g. Thymes CT thymol 30%
Mono Terpenes ~ antiseptic, fortifying and strengthening anti-viral, cortisone-like limonene, found in e.g. lemon (citrus limone)70%
This list of natural chemical ingredients and their therapeutic effects illustrates just how important all the natural ingredients are in essential oils. The loss of any of these ingredients, through lack of purity results in essential oils with little or no therapeutic effect, in other words as we said in the beginning, they simply do not work.
In order to simplify the types of essential oils, we have categorized them as follows:
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Ingredients
