Lavender and Increased Salivary Oxytocin Level

• Sex differences in the effects of aromatherapy on anxiety and salivary oxytocin levels.

  • 2024-06-11
  • RCT · n = 15
  • Frontiers in endocrinology 15
  • • Daisuke Nakajima
    • Megumi Yamachi
    • Shingen Misaka
    • Kenju Shimomura
    • Yuko Maejima

  • PubMed: 38919481
  • DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2024.1380779

  2 Insights on

  • Increased Salivary Oxytocin Level

  • High evidence

  in men, ... there were no significant differences in changes of salivary oxytocin levels between the control and aromatherapy groups during the intervention period.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No