With lavender, as well as enjoy their pleasant aroma, we can achieve welfare in our health in many ways, under an aromatherapy treatment.
The most prominent are the treatments of anxiety, because the lavender aromatherapy treatments are used primarily for relaxation and also for agitated behavior, or rather in cases of severe dementia has been shown that lavender alleviates behavioral agitated, either aromatherapy or cloths impregnated with the oil.
In turn it is also hypnotic lavender aromatherapy generally used as a sleep inducer. And also for the pain and the perception of the intensity and unpleasantness of pain may decrease after treatment with lavender therapy. As has been proposed which is effective for temporary relief of back pain.
Obviously the properties of lavender are more, but this is a brief referring to aromatherapy. You could also say that lavender is a natural sedative for the nervous system, acts as an analgesic, is an effective antibiotic and has antispasmodic effects, antiseptics, healing, diuretic, insect repellents, anti-migraine, hypertensive, parasitism, soporifics, expectorant and anti-rheumatic.
Finally note that not only is used in aromatherapy, but also in cosmetics, medicines, baths, inhalations, evaporators, incense, massages, compresses and sits baths.
How do I use lavender essential oil? There are several modalities.
We may add to the bath, inhaling (after sprinkling a few drops of oil on a cloth or tissue, or by an aromatherapy diffuser or vaporizer) or directly on the skin (if it is incorporated into a massage).
Lavender essential oil is sold at many health food stores or in the homes of aromatherapy. You can also find dried lavender as a tea, but not recommended internally ingested without supervision by a health professional.
To correctly use this essential oil is good to know its side effects. Although lavender essential oil is generally considered very safe, can cause irritation when applied to the skin directly.
It can also aggravate sleepiness in people who take sedative medicine.
A small study published in 2007 showed that lavender oils used in personal care can cause gynecomastia (abnormal enlargement of one or both mammary glands in men).