Lavender oil liquid

Purpose: This study analyzed the effect size of lavender essential oil and lavender blended essential oils on adult psychological factors. A meta-analysis was conducted to recommend an effective application strategy for improving psychological factors in adults.Methods: To analyze the effect size of lavender essential oil and lavender blended essential oils on psychological factors in adults, studies published over the last 10 years (January 2013 to December 2023) were collected. Studies were selected based on the population, intervention, comparison, outcomes, and study-format focusing on those that compared the pre and post psychological health of experimental group and control group and presented the mean and standard deviation. Data were analyzed using the version 4 software by Biostat (Englewood, USA).Results: Treatment with lavender essential oil alone showed highly positive effect on anxiety (0.731) and stress (0.730), followed by positive effects on sleep quality (0.673) and fatigue (0.601). Furthermore, treatment with lavender blended essential oils showed the most positive effects on sleep quality (1.383), followed by fatigue (1.159), stress (0.789), and anxiety (0.638).Conclusion: This study, discovered that lavender essential is effective in relieving anxiety and stress when used to improve adult psychological factors (anxiety, sleep quality, stress, and fatigue), and lavender blended essential oils are particularly effective in improving sleep quality and reducing fatigue. These results are expected to be valuable in prescribing treatments for individuals of various ages and lifestyles suffering from various psychological factors.

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Modern society is reviving the practice of aromatherapy, and lavender is reported to be the most worldwide purchased plant for essential oils (EO) extraction. Since odors can modulate cognitive functions acting through specific neuroanatomical pathways, lavender EO inhalation can enhance cognition. Taking into account EO quality and diffusion devices, we conducted a systematic review on the effects of lavender EO inhalation on arousal, attention and memory in healthy subjects. Starting from this new multidisciplinary perspective, cognitive effects were revised to link outcomes to effective and reproducible aromatherapy protocols. A systematic search on MEDLINE database using Cognitive Atlas and plant authenticity-related keywords was performed. Among the 806 articles yielded, 11 articles met eligibility criteria. Subjects administered with lavender EO displayed arousal decrease and sustained attention increase. Puzzling results were obtained regarding memory. Lack of EO quality assessment and high heterogeneity in inhalation protocols did not allow assessing whether different EO composition differently modulates cognition and whether placebo or expectancy effect can be discerned from EO effect itself. However, GABAergic pathway modulation exerted by linalool, a major lavender EO constituent, explains arousal reduction and sustained attention enhancement. In conclusion, aromatherapy can be an innovative, practical and non-invasive tool to prevent cognitive lapses.

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The editors of the Central Asian Journal of Global Health regretfully published the article “A Systematic Review of the Effects of Aromatherapy with Lavender Essential Oil on Depression” with a misspelled word in the title. This mistake has been corrected. The original article has been updated to reflect this change.Jafar-Koulaee A, Elyasi F, Taraghi Z, Ilali ES, Moosazadeh M. A systematic review of the effects of aromatherapy with lavender essential oil on depression. Cent Asian J Glob Health. 2020;9(1) doi:10.5195/cajgh.2020.442.

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