Lavender and Reduced Pain Intensity

• Herbal medicine for low-back pain.

  • 2014-12-23
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 2,050
  • The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2014(12)
  • • Hanna Oltean
    • Chris Robbins
    • Maurits W van Tulder
    • Brian M Berman
    • Claire Bombardier
    • Joel J Gagnier

  • PubMed: 25536022
  • DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd004504.pub4

  4 Insights on

  • Reduced Pain Intensity

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Aromatic lavender essential oil applied by acupressure may reduce subjective pain intensity and improve lateral spine flexion and walking time compared to untreated participants

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  aromatic lavender essential oil applied by acupressure