Tissue repair using Australian native essential oils and extracts

Title : Tissue repair using Australian native essential oils and extracts

Abstract:

Australian Native Essential Oils and Extracts for Skin Tissue Repair: This presentation explores Australian native essential oils and extracts that may support skin tissue repair, with a focus on clinical and therapeutic outcomes in the healing of damaged tissue.
Eucalyptus Oil: Background and Significance: The discussion begins with an overview of eucalyptus oil, one of the world’s best-known essential oils. Used in Australia for generations, eucalyptus has a long history of traditional use, including by First Nations peoples in everyday health practices. This historical context helps explain how eucalyptus oil became an important part of the modern essential oil market.
Burn Depths and Tissue Damage: The presentation then examines the ways burns affect the skin, including the different depths of injury and the extent of tissue damage they may cause. This provides an essential foundation for understanding why treatment approaches must be tailored to the severity and depth of each burn.
Formulation and Clinical Considerations: Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of treatment approaches for different burn depths, how burns affect the layers of the integumentary system, and the clinical impact of tissue damage. The presentation also explains how selected essential oils and extracts can be developed into prescriptive formulations to help reduce infection risk and support tissue repair. Key considerations such as chemotype and essential oil chemistry are included to show how specific compounds may influence healing outcomes and help reduce microbial invasion in burn wounds. To bring these concepts into practice, the presentation concludes with a real case study from clinical practice, shared with client consent, outlining the treatment protocol, formulations used, and the client’s progress over time.

Biography:

In 2008, she undertook the task of editor and publisher of the industry magazine, “Aromatherapy Today International Journal”, which assists Aromatherapists with their continuing education in the aromatherapy realm, and Deby provides an in-depth profile of an Essential Oil in each volume. She instigated the first Aromatica Australia conference in 2015, well attended by therapists from Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Japan. As a result she continued running the conferences in 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 and plans are already underway for 2027, which will be face to face conference. Deby is at present recognised as an expert in Australian native essential oils and has many case studies demonstrating their efficacy and benefits in a clinical environment, she educates predominantly in the use of Australian Essential oils. In 2019, Deby commenced to write a book on Australian Essential Oils, which was launched at Aromatica 2021 and is being sold worldwide. Deby's passion is Australian Clinical Aromatherapy, utilising Australian products where available and promoting small providers with quality products for the industry as well as teaching at colleges both locally and globally. One of her specialties is to teach others how to utilise Australian Native essential oils and integrate them into their clinical practice…”even if they haven't formally studied aromatherapy!”

She is an Editor/Publisher/Author/Educator and holds qualifications in:- 

• Adv Dip Aromatic Medicine, 
• DIST Herbal Medicine, 
• Dip Clinical Aromatherapist,
• Dip Remedial Massage, 
• Adv Dip Aestheticians.