精油对神经系统的作用（一）---韩国Hong Keun(David) Oh 吴洪根 博士的演讲

精油对神经系统的作用（一）

专家介绍：韩国Hong Keun (David)Oh 中文名吴洪根博士 韩国芳香疗法学会会长

4月13日，吴博士在中国国际芳香产业展览会的同期高峰论坛上做“精油对神经系统的作用”专题演讲，花眷芳香公司精油研究员陆少华先生做整理翻译。

译文如下：

大家好！今天非常荣幸到场和大家见面。我感谢芳香展组委会邀请我参加芳香展和论坛，我也非常高兴能参与这个大型的芳香展和芳香论坛。

做为一名医学教授、执业医师和自然疗法医生，我一直在医院从事临床治疗，治疗了很多病人。我使用的药物，既有西药，又有精油。我擅长的治疗领域，其中就有精神反常（Mental Disorders, 大多翻译为精神疾病，这种翻译法不准确，精神疾病是Mental illness or Disease。译者），例如睡眠反常，抑郁，焦虑等。用芳香疗法诊治精神反常和疾病，我有丰富的经验和临床案例。

总体上讲，芳香疗法有很多独特和基本的医疗特征。最基本的医疗特征就是镇定（Sedation）。

香气吸入后，可以立即产生镇静和平和的效果。最典型的治疗就是针对失眠。我后面会谈到精油是怎么产生这个效果的。精油第二个重要的作用是提升人体免疫功能。很多疾病都是由于免疫力低下造成的。精油在体内，可以从大脑到器官，建立自上而下的指挥系统。例如感冒，精油可以通过刺激脑干的神经化学途径诱发免疫系统，最终治疗感冒。精油的其他的好处在于（化学）毒性低，副作用少。把几种精油调配成协力精油，治疗功效更强大，也是芳香疗法的益处。

在感染、发炎、皮肤病和过敏性疾病中，韩国的医生偏爱用芳香疗法作为辅助治疗手段。同样，在治疗压力、抑郁、焦虑、糖尿病和高血压时，也采用芳香疗法作为辅助手段。

现代的医学检测设备有助于发现脑部的病原和异常，方便做出诊断和治疗方案。如：核磁共振成像术（MRI)，正电子成像（PET），CT脑部扫描，单光子发射计算机断层成像术(SPECT)。

这些技术结合在一起，可以分析精油如何作用在神经系统和脑部区域。

原文如下：

Hello! I am very pleased to come here and to see you. I would like to thanks for invitation to staffs of this affair and conference. Also it is much happy and enjoyable for me to join this big world aroma exhibition and conference.

I have been practicing at hospital and treated many sick persons as a medical doctor and professor also as a natural healing doctor. I have used not only drugs but also aromatic oils. One of my major speciality is mental disorders, like sleep disorder, depression, anxiety-panic state and so on. So I have a lot experiences and clinical cases of mental diseases with aromatherapy.

By this my background, I will speech my topic more to focus on our brain and nervous system which aromatic essential oils affect and working on.

Generally aromatherapy has its unique and basic medicinal characters.Most fundamental one is sedation effect. Aromatic smells induce usimmediate calming and peaceful state. Typical case is curing insomnia.I will discuss how and why aroma oils work it later The 2th important action of oils are uplifting immunity in our body. All our diseases are occurred by lack of immunity. Aromatic oils have top-down order system from brain to terminal organs in body. It means aroma

stimulates neuro-chemical pathway at brain and to immune system of the body and finally cure colds. Other benefits of aromatherapy are rare toxicity or no sides. More than one oils is better potent power is also advantage of aromatherapy(synGrgy effect).

Our doctors like to choose aromatherapy as a complementarymedicine on treatment of infection, inflammation, skin care and atopy.Also stress, depression, anxiety and diabetes, hypertension must beindicated in aromatherapy

Many highly advanced technology of Brain studies help to find brain pathology and disorders including diagnosis and treatment MRI(Magnetic Resonance Imaging), PET(Positron Emission Tomograpy), CT(Computed Tomograpy), SPECT(single -photon emission computed tomography)

These tools corperate to find out how aromatic essential oils work upon nerve system and what area of brain involved.

For example, PET(Positron Emission Tomograpy) imaginates colorful pictures that lavender oil touches each brain areas includes hypothalamic area of brain via olfactory nerve and limbic system.

Combination of SPECT(single -photon emission computed tomography)and MRI are also tracing aroma oils work by three dimentional imaging.