Lavender

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Lavender

Other Names: Alhucema, Common Lavender, English Lavender, French Lavender, Garden Lavender, Huile Essentielle de Lavande, Lavanda, Lavande, Lavande à Feuilles Étroites, Lavande Anglaise, Lavande Commune, Lavande des Alpes, Lavande du Jardin, Lavande Espagnole, Lavande Fine, Lavande Française, Lavande Officinale, Lavande Vraie, Lavandula, Lavandula angustifolia, Lavandula dentate, Lavandula officinalis, Lavandula pubescens, Lavandula spica, Lavandula stoechas, Lavandula vera, Lavender Essential Oil, Ostokhoddous, Spanish Lavender, Spike Lavender, True Lavender.
See also : Spike Lavender

Special Precautions of Lavender

  • Although not commonly considered an allergenic substance, if you are susceptible from allergens in the mint family, you could experience negative side effects from lavender as well. These are usually mild in nature and include headaches, constipation, and increased appetite, while topical application can cause mild irritation and redness.
  • Children: Applying products to the skin that contain lavender oil is POSSIBLY UNSAFE for young boys who have not yet reached puberty. Lavender oil seems to have hormone effects that could disrupt the normal hormones in a boy's body. In some cases, this has resulted in boys developing abnormal breast growth called gynecomastia. The safety of these products when used by young girls is not known.
  • Surgery: Lavender might slow down the central nervous system. If used in combination with anesthesia and other medications given during and after surgery, it might slow down the central nervous system too much. Stop using lavender at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.
  • See precautions of Aromatherapy
  • See precautions of Coumarin
  • See precautions of Linalool

The benefits of Lavender are

You might be surprised to learn that lavender is much more than an aromatic scent used to enhance soaps and candles. In fact, there are a number medicinal uses for lavender, as well as in cooking, that go back centuries.

Here is a list of just a few ways to use lavender:

  • Stress Relief : If you’ve ever inhaled a breath of fresh lavender your senses are immediately awakened by its soothing fragrance and its almost immediate ability to bring a sense of relaxation. Aromatherapists rely on lavender’s essential oil for calming nervous conditions like anxiety or stress. Burn a lavender candle or add a few drops of lavender essential oil into a carrier oil like olive oil, then apply a small drop to your wrists or across the clavicle. Breathe deeply and relax.
  • Depression. In mild to moderate depression, tincture of lavender appears to be slightly less effective than the medicationimipramine (Tofranil).
  • kills bacteria and fungus : Lavender oil inhibits the growth of methicillin-sensitive and resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA and MRSA)
  • Skin Treatment : Lavender oil works as an antiseptic and anti-fungal, making it a natural treatment option for skin disorders, acne, scars, cuts, sunburns and psoriasis.
  • Reverse Hair Loss : One study found that people with alopecia areata, a disease that causes patchy hair loss, who put lavender oil on their scalps had significant hair re-growth compared to those who did not apply the oil.
  • Improve Sleep : Skip the prescription sleep medications and embrace the natural relaxation properties in lavender. Having a massage with lavender essential oil may improve the quality of your sleep, helping you to awaken well rested the next day.
  • Insect Repellant : To naturally protect yourself from summer bugs, add a few drops of lavender oil to a teaspoon of carrier oil and apply to your skin. Lavender contains geraniol, a compound that wards off biting bugs. Lavender can increase skin’s photosensitivity, so stay in the shade and wear your best sunblock.
  • Migraine. Some research suggests that rubbing 2 or 3 drops of lavender oil on the upper lip, so that the vapor is inhaled, might reduce migraine pain and nausea, and help stop the headache spreading.
  • Relieve Muscle Aches : Whether you gave it your all at the gym or yanked too many weeds out of the garden, try massaging lavender oil into achy joints and muscles to ease pain rather than popping pills. Just the smell of the lavender oil alone will help to take your mind off of your aching muscles.
  • Linalool, Found in Lavender and Other Oils, Decreases Liver Cancer Cell Viability
  • Baking : Yes, you can even cook with lavender. In your next homemade batch of cookies or shortbread, add a tablespoon of dried lavender leaves to the batter. Your cookies freckled with soft purple leaves will look elegant and everyone will want in on the secret ingredient that turned plain sugar cookies into a culinary delight.
  • essential oils for hemorrhoids-treatment : lavender oil, tea tree oil, cypress oil, peppermint oil.