Burn Essential Oils for Your Healths Sake
February 17th, 2007The dangers of burning incense, a popular meditative and medicinal aid, and now being realised, and identified as exposing people to cancer causing chemicals.
Incense burning also creates more local pollution than road traffic.
Levels of highly carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) inside a poorly ventilated temple in Taiwan were 19 times higher inside the temple than outside, and also somewhat higher than at a nearby local intersection.