Cultivation of Lavender

Lavender for Hospitals

Biological activities of lavender essential oil.

Essential oils distilled from members of the genus Lavandula have been used both cosmetically and therapeutically for centuries with the most commonly used species being L. angustifolia, L. latifolia, L. stoechas and L. x intermedia. Although there is considerable anecdotal information about the biological activity of these oils much of this has not been substantiated by scientific or clinical ...

A Psychophysiological Study of Lavender Odorant

In the present experiment the effect of the lavender odorant to human beings was investigated. Japanese version of Cox and Mackay's stress / arousal adjective checklist (J-SACL) , blood pressure, heart rate, stroop test, non-spatial working memory task and the computed electroencephalography (cEEG) was performed before and after the lavender odorants stimulation. The results indicated that lave...

Lavender and the Nervous System

Lavender is traditionally alleged to have a variety of therapeutic and curative properties, ranging from inducing relaxation to treating parasitic infections, burns, insect bites, and spasm. There is growing evidence suggesting that lavender oil may be an effective medicament in treatment of several neurological disorders. Several animal and human investigations suggest anxiolytic, mood stabili...

Exploring Lavender Tongue from Social Media Texts

Under the issue of gender and Natural Language Processing (NLP), most papers aim at gendernorm language that spoken by biologically males and females with opposite-sex desires. However, from the point of view of sexual orientation, this study presents the first work in the task of Chinese homosexual identification. Firstly, we collect homosexual texts from social media, and secondly examine lin...