吴洪根博士早年是神经精神医师，1991年，吴博士从加拿大自然疗法学院获得自然疗法博士学位，回韩国后致力于推广自然疗法和替代疗法在韩国的普及和应用。吴博士结合他自己的神经精神科医生的背景，结合芳香疗法，率先在韩国治疗各类精神和身体疾病。

吴博士总结多年的临床芳香疗法和自然疗法治疗经验和体会，已经出版了14本芳香疗法有关著作，并在世界级著名的医学杂志上发表了超过50篇论文。

目前，吴博士依然担任韩国芳疗协会和辅助及替代疗法学会的主席。

2019年在上海举行的第五届中国国际芳香产业展览会上，吴洪根博士首次正式在中国芳疗界做简短的大脑芳香疗法的介绍，引起行业的关注。

吴洪根博士与幸福芳香（北京）文化传播有限公司的陆少华先生达成协议，由陆少华先生负责安排和组织吴博士未来在中国的专业讲座及授课。

大脑芳香疗法（上）

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。

下面我要解释芳香精油在大脑和神经系统中的运行。首先，嗅觉神经是唯一从外部进入大脑的途径。嗅觉神经将精油传导到大脑深层。

我们闻精油的时候，精油分子粘附在我们鼻腔粘膜组织中嗅觉神经上的纤毛，这些粘附在嗅受体细胞上的化学分子经由嗅球和嗅茎传输到大脑内层的边缘系统内，然后分落在边缘系统中的各个部位，如下丘脑、丘脑、脑垂体、海马体和扁桃体（杏仁体）。下丘脑—垂体是精油自中枢神经传导到身体周围神经系统的主要途径，如：心脏、肝、胃、肠。精油可以激发自主神经系统、交感神经系统、副交感神经系统、内分泌系统和免疫系统。

所有的大脑内部环境，从大脑前额叶、额叶到运动区和感觉区，都相互传导化学——神经元信号。

从边缘系统传递到下丘脑的信号和信息，会影响人体的压力、代谢和性功能。睡眠周期受这种机制的影响，失眠症也以此机制来治愈。

而且精油还会激发脑皮质，让人思维清晰，工作有条紊。

当精油达到脑干的时候，可以控制心跳和心率、大肠功能、血压和呼吸。

大脑的边缘系统是人类情感和行为产生的根源，也是人类价值观和尊严的缘起。

未完待续

大脑芳香疗法（原稿）

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.

Now I will explain how aromatic essential oils work at brain andnervous system.First of all, olfactory nerve is only and unique way to inner brain fromoutside. It carries essential oil into deep place of brain

When we smell evaporated aromatic essential oils, it is inhaled into our nose and invisible micro particles attached to cilias of olfactory nerve in mucosal membrane of nasal cavity. These chemical components in olfactory receptor cells are carried through olfactory bulb and olfactory stalk to limbic system in inner part of brain. Then these neurochemicals are distributed over each parts of limbic systems, like hypothalamus, thalamus, pituitary gland, hippocampus and amygdala. Hypothalamus-pituitary gland pathway is the main route of transportation of essential molecular chemicals from central nervous system to peripheral areas, like each organs, heart, liver, stomach and intestine. It stimulates autonomic nervous system, sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves, endocrine hormonal system and immune system.

All of internal brain milieu, from prefrontal, frontal to motor and sensory areas, exchanges chemico- neuronal informations as signals to each others.

Signals and informations generated from limbic system to hypothalamus influenced stress, metabolism and sexual function of our body. Sleep cycles is influenced by this mechanism and case of insomnia is recovered.

Also it stimulates cortical brain to make conscious thought and When it reaches to brain stem then it controls heart rate and rhythm, intestinal function, blood pressure and breath.

So limbic system of brain is like a birth place and root of human emotion and behavior. It is a site for living worthy of human dignity hand over from God.