Lavender might actually help you relax... In mice, sniffing some linalool is similar to taking Valium.

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Lavender Fields
You can almost smell the serenity through the computer screen.
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▼ Having a bad day? Light a lavender candle and let all your stresswaft away. Immersing yourself in a lavender cloud mayactuallyhelp reduce anxiety, according to new research published earlier this week.
Scientists at Kagoshima University in Japan looked at what happened when mice sniffed linalool, a fragrant chemical that helps give lavender its distinctive scent. In stressful situations, the mice relaxed, and behaved similarly on linalool as they did on anti-anxiety medications like Valium and Xanax. The resultswere published this week inFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Hideki Kashiwadani, the lead author on the new paper, says he got the idea for the experiment when he noticed mice seemed to relax when smelling linalool. He wanted to know if the effect was real.
To look at this, Kashiwadani and his colleagues ran a series of classic mouse anxiety tests. In light and dark boxes and elevated mazes, environments designed to stress rodents out, mice pre-exposed to vaporized linalool explored their surroundings much more than mice who got no aromatherapy. How willing an animal is to explore is a proxy for how relaxed it is. The more anxious, the less likely they are to move around. The curiosity of the mice who sniffed linalool mirrored that of mice who took the anti-anxiety medication diazepam. The linalool did all this without impairing motor function, unlike some medications which can slow you down. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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Rhett_Bassard

Lavender: the downfall of kids today...

Pedro_P

Rhett Bassard 26-10-2018 03:25 AM
Lavender: the downfall of kids today...

I do not think that's lavender... It seems oregano. ;-)