Lavender and Reduced Anxiety Levels

• 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

  • Reduced Anxiety Levels

  • High evidence

  In women, either aromatherapy or hand massage was associated with a reduction in anxiety levels, independently. ... in men, anxiety levels were decreased after aromatherapy, as well as after hand massage, regardless of the use of lavender oil.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes