BACKGROUND Aromatherapy and hand massage therapies have been reported to have some benefit for people with dementia who display behavioural symptoms; however there are a number of limitations of reported studies. The aim is to investigate the effect of aromatherapy (3% lavender oil spray) with and without hand massage on disruptive behaviour in people with dementia living in long-term care. M...

Introduction: Anxiety is one of the most common psychological reactions in patients waiting for surgery, and they usually experience a certain level of anxiety. Aromatherapy is a complementary treatment in which inhaling the scent can shift the autonomic balance towards parasympathetic superiority and calm the person. This review study aimed to evaluate the results of clinical trials on the eff...

Background: Preoperational anxiety is a challenging issue in preoperative care of patients. However, lavender aromatherapy can be useful as a nursing intervention to reduce some symptoms of the anxiety. This study aimed to determine the effect of aromatherapy on the anxiety of patients undergoing surgical reconstruction of the upper limb. Methods: In this non-randomized clinical trial, a total...

From the medicinal species Lavender, inflorescences (Flores SpicaeLavandulae), with a pleasant, characteristic smell, notes of freshness, are used for therapeutic purposes. The active principle lavender flowers is volatile oil, content which differs depending on species, variety, time harvest or form conditioning. Fresh contain up to 0.8% and dried ones 1.5%. Lavender have high linalool (a terp...

The production technology of Lavandula angustifolia (true English Lavender) from rooting stem cuttings, standardizing the distance for plantation in field, yield essential oil and economics cultivation has been discussed. 92% can be achieved semi hardwood cuttings L. if treated with 2000ppm IBA month October. Maximum herbage (fresh flower) on harvesting after two years to tune 11,420kg ha-1 whe...

Aromatherapy, that employs essential oils extracted from numerous plants and herbs, is wide used turning into a significant complementary alternative medicines. Among various medicines, inhalation aromatherapy has particularly received attention principally for its effects of relaxation improvement emotional or psychological conditions, few clinical trials have recommended the potential anxiety...

Lavender flower essential oil had been used for a variety of therapeutic and cosmetic purposes. Previous studies mainly focused on composition extraction methods, ignoring the factors that affected production oils, such as floret number. This study aims to get deep insight into mechanism number differences. Hormone analysis showed there was positive correlation between abscisic acid (ABA) conte...

two spotted spider mite (tssm), tetranychus urticae koch, is an important pests on bean in markazi province (center of iran). to evaluate the bioacaricidal activity of extracts of three essential oils of thyme (thymus vulgaris), lavender (lavandula officinalis)  and eucalyptus (eucalyptus camaldulensis) against t. urticae on cherry bean (vigna unguiculta subsp. sinensis), five different concent...

BACKGROUND Insomnia is the most common of all sleep complaints and is under-researched. The current treatments of choice are conventional hypnotics agents, but these have potential for serious adverse reactions. Uncontrolled and anecdotal evidence suggests that lavender oil is an effective treatment for insomnia, but this has not been formally investigated. OBJECTIVES The aims of this study w...