臨床芳療在癌症病患身心靈照護的輔助角色

Clinical Aromatherapy as a Complimentary Therapy of Body, Mind, and Soul in the Care of Cancer Patients

卓芷聿(Chih-Yu Cho)

《腫瘤護理雜誌》 10卷2期 (2010/12) Pp. 9-22

https://doi.org/10.6880/TJON.201012_10(2).02

摘要

過去的研究指出許多在安寧病房的病患曾接受過輔助與另類療法的照護。芳香療法是屬於輔助與另類療法中的一種，目的是在提升病患的生活品質，給予心靈、情緒上的支援，紓緩生理的不適症狀。正確的使用芳香療法有助於緩解癌症常見的不適症狀，如嘔心、便祕、憂鬱、疲憊、疼痛、淋巴水腫、放射治療的灼傷及失眠等。芳香療法雖無法治療癌症，然而它可以為癌末病人帶來更舒適的身心及更舒泰的康復。這篇文章希望臨床芳香療法的照護與提供者能更明暸如何有效的使用精油以改善病患的生活品質，以使病患能更快的緩解身體的不適。本篇文章包含幾個重點主題：芳療的歷史演進；安寧芳療經驗分享；以個案研究為導向的安寧芳療應用；癌症患者使用芳療的禁忌；及簡易芳香療法紓緩癌症病患的身心不適。施行芳香療法作為癌症病患的輔助與另類療法有許多相關的問題存在，須要有更多的研究及臨床的試驗。芳療的教育、訓練的實施及經費的來源都是存在的一些需要克服的困難。希望芳香療法能在臺灣更廣泛地發揮輔助與另類療法的效用，使癌症病患獲得更好、更完整的身心靈照護。廣泛地發揮輔助與另類療法的效用，使癌症病患獲得更好、更完整的身心靈照護。

關鍵字

癌症病患 ； 芳香治療 ； 輔助與另類療法

並列摘要

Previous studies showed that many palliative care patients have been under a variety of complementary and alternative medicine treatments, and aromatherapy is one of them, is designed to enhance patient quality of life, to give spiritual, emotional support, to relieve physical symptoms. The correct use of aromatherapy can help ease the common symptoms of cancer, such as nausea, constipation, depression, fatigue, pain, lymphoedema, radiotherapy burns and insomnia. Although aromatherapy can not treat cancer, it can make terminal cancer patients feel more comfortable and create a feeling of physical and psychological rehabilitation. This article hopes to provide the clinical aromatherapy care givers to understand how more effective use of essential oils to improve the quality of life of patients, so patients can more quickly ease the discomfort. This article contains several key themes: the history of aromatherapy; palliative aromatherapy experience sharing; case study-oriented palliative treatment applications; cancer patients' aromatherapy use taboos; and easy aromatherapy for cancer patients to alleviate the physical and psychological discomfort. Implementation of aromatherapy as a complementary and alternative medicine for cancer and palliative patients more effectively, would require more research and clinical trials on this subject. In addition, some of the difficulties to be overcome, such as: proper aromatherapy education; training for the aromatherapy care givers; and funding for the essential oils supplies. It is hoped that aromatherapy can be used more widely in Taiwan to play the effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine.

並列關鍵字

cancer patients ； aromatherapy ； complementary and alternative medicine