Lavender and the nervous system

PH Koulivand, M Khaleghi Ghadiri… - … and Alternative Medicine, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Aromatherapy in the management of psychiatric disorders: clinical and neuropharmacological perspectives

N Perry, E Perry - CNS drugs, 2006 - Springer
Aromatherapy is currently used worldwide in the management of chronic pain, depression,
anxiety, some cognitive disorders, insomnia and stress-related disorders. Although essential …

Screening of plants used in Danish folk medicine to treat memory dysfunction for acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity

A Adsersen, B Gauguin, L Gudiksen… - Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
Aqueous and methanolic extracts of 11 plants, used in Danish folk medicine for
improvement of memory and cognition, and 3 Corydalis species were tested for …

Changes in major bioactive compounds with antioxidant activity of Agastache foeniculum, Lavandula angustifolia, Melissa officinalis and Nepeta cataria: Effect of …

SC Duda, LA Mărghitaş, D Dezmirean, M Duda… - Industrial Crops and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The continuous interest in medicinal plants has brought about todays modern processing
and usage of different plants. Extracts obtained from the aerial parts of Agastache …

Both lavender fleur oil and unscented oil aromatherapy reduce preoperative anxiety in breast surgery patients: a randomized trial

L Franco, TJJ Blanck, K Dugan, R Kline… - Journal of clinical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Study objective The objective of this study was to determine whether lavender fleur oil (LFO)
aromatherapy would reduce anxiety when administered to women before undergoing breast …

Neuroprotective potential of aromatic herbs: rosemary, sage, and lavender

A Faridzadeh, Y Salimi, H Ghasemirad… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hundreds of millions of people around the world suffer from neurological disorders or have
experienced them intermittently, which has significantly reduced their quality of life. The …

Susceptibility of hippocampus and cerebral cortex to oxidative damage in streptozotocin treated mice: prevention by extracts of Withania somnifera and Aloe vera

MS Parihar, M Chaudhary, R Shetty… - Journal of clinical …, 2004 - Elsevier
Diabetes mellitus is reported to impair the memory function in experimental animals. Since
the mammalian hippocampus and cerebral cortex play a pivotal role in a diverse set of …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of herbal medicine on epilepsy

W Liu, T Ge, Z Pan, Y Leng, J Lv, B Li - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Traditional herbal medicine plays a significant role in the treatment of epilepsy. Though
herbal medicine is widely used in antiepileptic treatment, there is a lack of robust evidence …

Plants of the Genus Lavandula: From Farm to Pharmacy

B Salehi, D Mnayer, B Özçelik, G Altin… - Natural Product …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The Lavandula genus, belonging to the Lamiaceae, includes 39 species, with nearly 400
registered cultivars. Lavandula are worldwide plants that occur over the Mediterranean …

Experimental excitotoxicity provokes oxidative damage in mice brain and attenuation by extract of Asparagus racemosus

MS Parihar, T Hemnani - Journal of Neural Transmission, 2004 - Springer
Excitotoxicity and oxidative stress are the major mechanisms of neuronal cell death in
neurodegenerative disorders that occurs in both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases …