LAVENDER the HEALING and RELAXING HERB.

Lavender the Medicinal Herb

Lavender is a very popular and commonly used fragrance in soaps, shampoo’s and essential oils.

It is used for scenting clothes, drawers and cupboards and is a age old fragrance used widely in Roman times to help purify the body and spirit.

It is a herb and its native home is in the mountainous regions of the Mediterranean where the sun and stoney landscape contributes to its growth.

Natural lavender is a short heavily branched shrub about 60 centimetres (24”) high but is now grown in different countries in differing types of flowing plants, there is English Lavender, French Lavender and many more varieties.

The plant has small blue-violet flowers, it is these flowers that provide the fragrance that is extracted and used in essential oils.

Lavender Easing Stress

Lavender is well known for helping people suffering from insomnia, hair loss, anxiety, stress and post operative pain, whilst there is no medical confirmation as to lavenders healing and stress relieving properties many people have proclaimed its benefits.

Lavender uses in our World

Years ago pillows were stuffed with Lavender flowers to help people relax and sleep.

There is some scientific evidence as to the benefits of Lavender through various studies and findings suggest that it has an effect on our nervous system, reducing anxiety and depression.

A study where subjects were tested with carrier oils infused with Lavender and without Lavender, the subjects tested with Lavender, reported they were sleeping longer and feeling calmer than the similar group tested without the lavender infusion, all subjects were massaged and bathed using similar oils.

Practitioners of Aromatherapy have found Lavender to be beneficial in relieving headaches, lowering blood pressure, relaxing and reducing stress.

A common way of using Lavender is to add the essential oil to a carrier oil and rub it into the skin, whilst the skin will naturally repel moisture it will absorb the oils allowing the full natural healing processes to take place, soaking in bath infused with Lavender oil, allowing the inhalation of the fragrance as well as absorbing it through the skin reduces stress and relieves headaches, rubbing the oils on the tummy and chest has been credited with easing indigestion.

Lavender is the most versatile of all the fragrances, beneficial for both the mind and the body.

Whilst we expound the values of Lavender it must be remembered that everyone has a different chemical makeup, Lavender can cause an allergic reaction in some people, sometimes causing the very thing that it is known to cure headaches, nausea and vomiting. Therefore it is recommended that when trying any essence for the first time test trials are carried out before jumping into a bath of an untested fragrance, it is particularly important that where a woman is pregnant or is breast feeding she should not use essential oils especially Lavender. Care should also be exercised by anyone taking conventional medicine.

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