Boost Your Memory By 75% By Just Sniffing a Handkerchief Science is once again validating what the folk tradition has long known. Common herbs have remarkable abilities to affect the mind in subtle ways. “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance” says Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, echoing a tradition of use that stretched back into antiquity and continues on to this very day during Remembrance Day ceremonies. Over the last 10 years rosemary essential oil’s ability to promote mental clarity has been confirmed by several studies. In 2003 a study by Moss et al demonstrated that the inhalation of rosemary essential oil significantly enhanced the performance for overall quality of memory and secondary memory factors of study participants. This was followed up by Further studies by the same team which found memory enhancements of up to 75% just from the diffusion of rosemary essential oil. It is thought that specific volatile compounds (terpenes) are responsible via direct stimulation of the olfactory nerve and by crossing the blood brain barrier after being absorbed through the nasal mucosa. This nicely confirms an Ayurveda adage which states that the nose is the gateway to the brain. Try a few drops on your collar or just diffuse some in your house with an oil burner. The old fashioned way is a little bunch that is carried around and called a nose-gay.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 23:52:21 +0000
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