Lavender (fragrance) has sedative effect, and it is also used in medical institutions and nursing facilities. Lavender essential oil is the most famous one among the essential oils used to improve sleep.
Sleeping with a lavender-scented quilt is more common than sleeping with an ordinary quilt, and the situation of rapid eye movement sleep and deep sleep is obviously increased. Let the patients who often take sleeping pills smell lavender fragrance, improve their sleep status, stop tossing and turning at night, avoid being sleepy during the day, and refresh their minds.
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Pharmacological activity
According to reports, foreign countries have been mainly used in clinical and cosmetic industries in the form of dried products or essential oils for centuries. The whole plant contains 1%~3% of volatile oil, and the use of lavender to treat diseases can be traced back to ancient Rome and ancient Greece. Lavender essential oil is still as widely used as it has been for centuries.
Lavender essential oil is a complex mixture of many different types of aromatic compounds, with more than 30 components, including linalool, linalyl acetate, cineole, B- rocene (including cis and trans), lavender acetate, lavender alcohol, terpenoid -4- alcohol and camphor, etc.
Sedative hypnotic effect
Lavender essential oil is mainly used in aromatherapy or massage. Abroad, in 1993, Tullamore, Ireland, mixed the volatile oils extracted from the plants of Luoqin, juniper, lavender and oregano to improve the sleep of the elderly in Genoral Hospital.
In 1995, Graham also made an attempt to reduce the sleep interference of patients and make them fall asleep quickly. After being combined with volatile oil atomization therapy for 2 weeks, the number of patients who reported that they slept well at night increased significantly, and the number of patients who needed special quiet environment at night decreased significantly. In Xinjiang, many Uighur hospitals use lavender herb preparation to treat neurasthenia and insomnia.
Spasmodic effect
In addition to the central nervous system, animal experiments show that lavender essential oil also has spasmolytic effect on ileum and uterine smooth muscle. Its antispasmodic effect is not through adrenergic and cholinergic receptors.
Nor does it act on calcium channels, but it acts by increasing the level of cyclic adenosine monophosphate in cells. Lavender essential oil also has some applications in obstetrics, such as adding it to bath water, which can alleviate the pain and discomfort of parturient.
antibiotic action
Lis-Balchin found that lavender essential oil has antibacterial activity against many kinds of bacteria. Linalool is the main antibacterial component of lavender essential oil, which can inhibit the growth of 17 kinds of bacteria (including gram-positive bacteria and gram-negative bacteria) and 10 kinds of fungi.
It has been proved that lavender essential oil and essential oil vapor have certain antifungal activity. Lavender extracts of 1% and 10% can inhibit conidia germination and spore growth of Botrytis cinerea, and the inhibition of spore growth is more effective than mycelium.
Lavender essential oil vapor can also inhibit the growth of Aspergillusfumigatus, and the required dosage is equivalent to tea tree oil, but higher than lemon vanilla oil, cinnamon oil and thyme oil.
Effect of lavender essential oil on tinea versicolorThe effective concentration of Trichophytonmentagrophytes and Trichophyton crimson T.rubrum was 10~20Lg/ml, and 60 kinds of conidia could be killed at the concentration of 150Lg/ml.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Lavender