Objective. Stress-reducing therapies help maintain cognitive performance during stress. Aromatherapy is popular for stress reduction, but its effectiveness and mechanism are unclear. This study examined stress-reducing effects of aromatherapy on cognitive function using the go/no-go (GNG) task performance and event related potentials (ERP) components sensitive to stress. The study also assessed...

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a bstract background: labor is a stressful situation that may have an adverse impact. aromatherapy is a method to control anxiety and stress of women. this study was conducted to investigate the effect of aromatherapy using essential oil of orange on women’s anxiety during labor.   materials and methods: in this clinical trial study, 100 women during labor were randomly assigned to two groups: ...

OBJECTIVES In aromatherapy, lavender aroma is reputed to assist with relaxation. However, while there is much anecdotal evidence to that effect, the empirical literature is very inconsistent. Failure to employ adequate placebos, proper blinding, objective measures, or screening of prior beliefs about aromatherapy means that many previous findings could have been influenced by expectancy biases....

Aromatherapy is currently used worldwide in the management of chronic pain, depression, anxiety, some cognitive disorders, insomnia and stress-related disorders. Although essential oils have been used, reputedly effectively, for centuries as a traditional medicine, there is very little verified science behind this use. The pharmacology of the essential oils and/or their single chemical constitu...

BACKGROUND Pruritus is one of the commonest problems in patients with end-stage renal failure undergoing hemodialysis. Pruritus is an irritating symptom which can directly affect the life quality of patients with chronic renal failure. However, available treatments have failed to relieve the symptom and kidney transplant remains the definite treatment of the problem. A recently proposed treatme...

The purpose of this research is to identify any significant difference between two forms of alternative medicine (aromatherapy and music therapy) and the body’s ability to relax unaided, in an attempt to discern if one has greater efficacy. We hypothesized that aromatherapy would be more effective than music therapy at reducing biomarker levels which correlate to anxiety. Ten students (five mal...

Abstract
 Excessive nausea and vomiting that occurs in pregnant women can cause electrolyte imbalances, weight loss, dehydration, ketosis, nutritional deficiencies. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of giving lavender aromatherapy reduce first trimester women. The analysis used this research is dependent independent sample t-test. results showed a significant decrease interventi...