Sweet Orange and Reduced Anxiety

• Clinical Pharmacology of Citrus aurantium and Citrus sinensis for the Treatment of Anxiety.

  • 2018-01
  • Review
  • Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM 2018(1)
  • • Carmen Mannucci
    • Fabrizio Calapai
    • Luigi Cardia
    • Giuseppina Inferrera
    • Giovanni D'Arena
    • Martina Di Pietro
    • Michele Navarra
    • Sebastiano Gangemi
    • Elvira Ventura Spagnolo
    • Gioacchino Calapai

  • PubMed: 30622597
  • DOI: 10.1155/2018/3624094

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Anxiety

  • Low evidence

  Exposition to Citrus sinensis EO in clinical studies shows to be positive in reducing anxiety level in patients waiting for dental treatment as well as in healthy volunteers submitted to an anxiogenic situation.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  inhalation