Sleeping lavender-scented quilts is more common than sleeping ordinary quilts, and the situation of rapid eye movement sleep and deep sleep is obviously increased. Let patients who often take sleeping pills smell lavender fragrance, improve their sleep state, avoid tossing and turning at night, avoid drowsiness during the day and be refreshed.
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Pharmacological activity
According to reports, foreign countries have been mainly used in the clinical and cosmetic industries in the form of dried products or essential oils for centuries. The whole grass contains 1%~3% volatile oil, and the use of lavender to treat diseases can be traced back to ancient Rome and ancient Greece. Lavender oil is still widely used as it has been for centuries.
Lavender essential oil is a complex mixture of many different types of aromatic compounds, with more than 30 components, including linalool, linalyl acetate, cineole, B- roene (including cis and trans), lavender acetate, lavender alcohol, terpenoid -4- alcohol and camphor. 122 182.
Sedative hypnotic effect
Lavender essential oil is mainly used for aromatherapy or massage. Abroad, from 65438 to 0993, the volatile oil extracted from Qin Luo, juniper, lavender, oregano and other plants was mixed in Tullamore to improve the sleep of the elderly.
In 1995, Graham also made an attempt to reduce patients' sleep disorders and let them fall asleep quickly. After two weeks of combined application with volatile oil atomization therapy, the number of patients who reported good sleep at night increased significantly, and the number of patients who needed special quiet environment at night decreased significantly. In Xinjiang, many Uighur hospitals use lavender preparation to treat neurasthenia and insomnia.
Spastic effect
In addition to the central nervous system, animal experiments show that lavender essential oil also has spasmolytic effect on ileum and uterine smooth muscle. Its antispasmodic effect is not through adrenergic and cholinergic receptors.
It does not act on calcium channels either, but it acts by increasing the level of cyclic adenosine monophosphate in cells. Lavender essential oil also has some applications in obstetrics, such as adding it to bath water, which can alleviate the pain and discomfort of lying-in women.
Antibiotic action
Lis-Balchin found that lavender essential oil has antibacterial activity against a variety of bacteria. Linalool is the main antibacterial component of lavender essential oil, which can inhibit the growth of 17 kinds of bacteria (including gram-positive bacteria and gram-negative bacteria) and 10 kinds of fungi.
It has been proved that lavender essential oil and essential oil vapor have certain antifungal activity. Lavender extracts of 1% and 10% can inhibit conidia germination and spore growth of botrytis cinerea, and the inhibition effect on spore growth is more effective than mycelium.
Lavender essential oil vapor can also inhibit the growth of Aspergillus fumigatus, and the required dosage is equivalent to that of tea tree oil, but higher than that of lemon vanilla oil, cinnamon oil and thyme oil.
The effective concentration of lavender essential oil against Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton rubrum is10 ~ 20lg/ml, and 60 conidia can be killed at the concentration of 150Lg/ml.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-lavender