Lavender Essential Oil

_____________________________________________________________________________________ Anti-anxiety Antioxidant Antibacterial Antifungal Antispasmodic Antimicrobial Analgesic (pain relief) Insomnia Mood stabilizer Sedative Wound healing accelerator Applied topically, lavender soothes and cleanses cuts, burns, bruises, and skin irritations. When ingested, lavender protects against diabetes and enhances bodys natural antioxidant barrier. As an aromatic, lavender treats migraine headaches, improves mood, and enhances memory.

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Lavender essential oil has been used as an anxiolytic (anti anxiety) drug, a mood

stabilizer, a sedative, spasmolytic (antispasmodic), antihypertensive, antimicrobial, analgesic (pain killer) agent as well as a wound healing accelerator. The present study suggests that inhalation of lavender essential oil may be an effective and safe treatment modality in acute management of migraine headaches.1 Lavender oil has shown antibacterial and antifungal activity; it was also found to be effective to treat burns and insect bites.2

Oral lavender oil preparation showed a significant beneficial influence on quality and duration of sleep and improved general mental and physical health without causing any unwanted sedative or other drug specific effects.3

Analysis of performance revealed that lavender odor produced a significant decrement in performance of working memory as well as impaired reaction times for both memory and attention. In addition, a significant effect was found for lavender compared to controls for degree of contentedness, indicating that lavender is capable of elevating mood.4

It has been shown that foot massage using lavender essential oil in 100 ICU patients of whom 50% were receiving artificial ventilation was effective in lowering blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, wakefulness, and pain.5

1 Sasannejad P, Saeedi M, Shoeibi A, Gorji A, Abbasi M, Foroughipour M. Lavender essential oil in the treatment of migraine headache: a placebo-controlled clinical trial. Eur Neurol. 2012;67(5):288-91. doi: 10.1159/000335249. Epub 2012 Apr 17. 2 Cavanagh HM, Wilkinson JM. Biological activities of lavender essential oil. Phytother Res. 2002;16:301308. doi: 10.1002/ptr.1103 3 Kasper S, Gastpar M, Mller WE, et al. Silexan, An orally administered Lavandula oil preparation, is effective in the treatment of subsyndromal anxiety disorder: a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial. International Clinical Psychopharmacology. 2010;25(5):277287. 4 Moss M, Cook J, Wesnes K, Duckett P. Aromas of rosemary and lavender essential oils differentially affect cognition and mood in healthy adults. International Journal of Neuroscience. 2003;113(1):1538 5 Woolfson A, Hewitt D. Intensive aromacare. International Journal of Aromatherapy. 1992;4(2):1213.