LAVENDER OIL FOR ANXIETY AND PANIC ATTACKS facebook/pages/Rawforvitality/177654739026014 Several clinical studies have demonstrated the benefit of lavender extracts compared to study drug or placebo in decreasing anxiety and depression. Orally administered lavender capsules were tested in 1 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.35 The authors concluded that lavender had anxiolytic effects under conditions of low anxiety, but they were unable to draw conclusions about high anxiety or clinical anxiety disorders. Another study of lavender oil for anxiety disorder compared it to placebo. This was the first double-blind randomized clinical trial to document the anxiolytic efficacy of oral lavender essential oil for anxiety disorder.36 Researchers concluded that the lavender oil was both efficacious and safe and had a significant effect on reducing anxiety symptoms on several anxiety scales and also improved the quality and duration of sleep and improved general mental and physical health without sedation or drug-like side effects. A multicenter, randomized trial was done comparing lavender oil to low-dose lorazepam in patients with GAD.37 The results demonstrated that the lavender oil capsules were comparable in results to the conventional study drug; the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale score decreased by 45% in the lavender group and by 46% in the drug group. By the end of the 6-week trial, it was a 40% decrease in the lavender group and 27% in the drug group. In addition, the response rate was 52.5% in the lavender oil group vs only 40.5% with the conventional treatment. Lavender oil capsules can elicit a lavender eructation, nausea, and dyspepsia in 2.6% to 5.2% of patients. Read more here: naturalmedicinejournal/article_content.asp?edition=1& section=2&article=354 Photo: Daily Essential Oil Tips
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