Blepharospasm is a disease having symptoms such as excessive tension in the oculi muscle, opening difficulty, blinking, involuntary closure of the eyelids. Then it progresses gradually, eventually sometimes becomes functional blindness. Women are more likely to get this disease, especially 40 to 50 and older. The cause has not completely been solved. Six periods of the aromatherapy treatment once a week have been done to the subject (client, 66 year-old, female) who had Blepharospasm from 2000.The changes in QOL set in a holistic viewpoint were observed, and the effect of aromatherapy was evaluated using the KK scale in this paper.
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