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The Smell Of Lavender Reduces Anxiety
Lavender also has practically no side-effects in comparison to drugs like benzodiazepines and SSRI antidepressants.
The smell of lavender reduces anxiety, research confirms.
Lavender also has practically no side-effects in comparison to drugs like benzodiazepines and SSRI antidepressants.
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Benzodiazepines, in particular, can cause headache, dizziness and an effect like being drunk.
Lavender, meanwhile, has a relatively quick relaxing influence and no other side-effects.
Dr Hideki Kashiwadani, study co-author, said:
“In folk medicine, it has long been believed that odorous compounds derived from plant extracts can relieve anxiety.”
The researchers tested linalool, which is a compound in lavender that has the relaxing effect.
Dr Kashiwadani explained:
“We observed the behavior of mice exposed to linalool vapor, to determine its anxiolytic [calming] effects.
As in previous studies, we found that linalool odor has an anxiolytic effect in normal mice.
Notably, this did not impair their movement.”
Lavender, though, must be smelt not absorbed into the lungs, to have its calming effect, the mouse study has found.
Mice that could not smell, though, were not relaxed by the linalool.
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