Lavender and Reduced Pain

• Herbal Medicine for Low Back Pain: A Cochrane Review.

  • 2016-01-01
  • Systematic Review · n = 2,050
  • Spine 41(2)
  • • Joel J Gagnier
    • Hanna Oltean
    • Maurits W van Tulder
    • Brian M Berman
    • Claire Bombardier
    • Christopher B Robbins

  • PubMed: 26630428
  • DOI: 10.1097/brs.0000000000001310

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Pain

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Although Harpagophytum procumbens (devil's claw), Salix alba (white willow bark), Symphytum officinale L. (comfrey), Solidago chilensis (Brazilian arnica), and lavender essential oil also seem to reduce pain more than placebo, evidence for these substances was of moderate quality at best.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

• Comparison of the analgesic effect of inhaled lavender vs vanilla essential oil for neonatal frenotomy: a randomized clinical trial (NCT04867824).

  • 2022-09-08
  • RCT · n = 142
  • European journal of pediatrics 181(11)
  • • Silvia Maya-Enero
    • Montserrat Fàbregas-Mitjans
    • Rosa Maria Llufriu-Marquès
    • Júlia Candel-Pau
    • Jordi Garcia-Garcia
    • María Ángeles López-Vílchez

  • PubMed: 36076107
  • DOI: 10.1007/s00431-022-04608-3

  4 Insights on

  • Reduced Pain

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial
  • Infants

  Both groups showed similar NIPS scores (2.02 vs 2.38) ... We observed no differences in HR increase or in SatO2 decrease between both groups.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  one drop (no further specification)