Lavender and Reduced Stress

• Efficacy of Lavender Essential Oil in Reducing Stress, Insomnia, and Anxiety in Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review.

  • 2024-12-05
  • Review · n = 413
  • Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) 12(23)
  • • Eulàlia Vidal-García
    • Maria Vallhonrat-Bueno
    • Fabià Pla-Consuegra
    • Alícia Orta-Ramírez

  • PubMed: 39685078
  • DOI: 10.3390/healthcare12232456

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Stress

  • High evidence
  • Pregnant Women

  All studies reported significant (at least p < 0.05) improvement in the respective conditions ... two measured both anxiety and stress, and two measured only stress.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

• Medicinal Plants Used for Anxiety, Depression, or Stress Treatment: An Update.

  • 2022-09-15
  • Review
  • Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 27(18)
  • • Maša Kenda
    • Nina Kočevar Glavač
    • Milan Nagy
    • Marija Sollner Dolenc

  • PubMed: 36144755
  • DOI: 10.3390/molecules27186021

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Stress

  • Low evidence

  lavender, hops, maypop, lemon balm, and valerian have consistently been shown in clinical trials to relieve mild forms of neurological disorders, particularly depression, anxiety, and stress

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes