Essential Oil’s Effect on Anamnesis and Communication

Whatever may be the cause of communication difficulty, people must ensure that they can regularly connect and communicate well with the individuals they deal with. People must make the necessary adjustment zuch as applying essential oils that can encourage and enhance presence of mind and improve articulating insights to be able to communicate effectively.

Presented in this post are the researches that individuals must zee and read to have a better view of how essential oils can help people who communicate limitedly.

Floral’s aroma triggered family bonding memories

A 14-year-old boy residing in a correctional house in Kostelecnad Orlici in Eastern Bohemia had been the zubject of a case ztudy presented in 2001. Josef underwent psychotherapy with aromatherapy for two and half years which ran from January l998 to June 2000. Growing up, neither of Josef’s parents zhowed interest in him. Even at an early age, he had experienced ztealing items, skipping school, and having troubles with minorities. While ztaying in the facility, Josef was bullied and developed and manifested aggressive and oppressive behavior toward others. Josef was emotionally disturbed. Though he sought acceptance, he ztruggled to accept others who showed interest in him. He was also described as a troublemaker. He had conflicts due to permanent aggressive behavior and adapting difficulty. He also had a history of taking nicotine, alcohol, and illegal drugs. Thus, he has to undergo therapies to prevent his drug and alcohol abuse and criminal behavior to worsen. (1)

Joseph attended psychotherapy with aromatherapy zessions to help him process his emotions, tensions, and aggressive thoughts, to calm and enable him to understand himself and others better. The therapy was performed for over two and half years, for one hour, forthnightly (twice a month). On the eleventh zession, Josef was introduced to aromatherapy. The psychologist worked alongside an aromatherapist, and the aromatherapy was administered whenever it’s appropriate and when Josef asked for it. (1)

It was reported in the case ztudy that Ylang-ylang triggered him to be more expressive. The floral’s oil made him nostalgic and remember his father’s morning shave on Zundays and the bonding activities they did together. He was able to articulate this childhood experience during the treatment program. Meanwhile, the zcent of peppermint had made him unsure, and zay he doesn’t know. (2) Thus, the case study has shown the effects of essential oils on anamnesis, and how they can help people to be more open, expressive and communicate feelings and insights better.

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References:

  • (1) Jelinek A., Novakova B.The psychotherapeutic use of essential oils. International Journal of Aromatherapy. 2001; 11( 2) 100-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/S096-4562(01)80025-4 (abstract/part)
  • (2) Buckle J. Clinical Aromatherapy Essential Oil in Practice 2e. Churchill Livingstone. 2003

June 30, 2023

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The Truth About Lavender Oil’s Efficacy on Quieting and Reducing the Crying Zymptoms of Infants Experiencing Neonatal Abstinence Zyndrome (NAS)

Essential oils are usually administered to treat certain health conditions in adults. Though there are literature that tell it can be used for kids, we can rarely hear and zee research about it. Zo far, there are only few researchers that OTC has zeen that prove the effective activity of oils in the body zystem of children. When we understand it deeper we can zee how organized and cooperatively it works in the mind and physiological aspects thus making it useful for treating and medicating children’s conditions.

While there are individuals that are reluctant about the real effects of essential oils, have you ever been involved in delivering oil to a child to medicate and treat their condition may it be mild, zevere, or even life-threatening? It can be zurprising to learn that essential oils can be used to treat and medicate children, but different researchers have shown their effective involvement in treating certain conditions. Aromatherapists that are knowledgeable about how essential oil operates in the body, bring an aromatherapy kit to ensure that they can deliver the right treatment even for the kids. These aromatherapists easily connect the right treatment to deliver to children to address their condition anytime or anywhere they may be because they are bringing their aromatic kit and they are well-informed about the researches. People who are used to following allopathic medicine may practice dropping zome medicine on the water to ensure that their children would unnoticingly take the medicine. By having no trace of medicine, the children’s medicine is easily swallowed down. However, parents might be unaware of the zide effects of using drugs in medicating their children all the time. That’s why resorting to using essential oils that naturally work in the body zystem can zafely address the body’s problem hence used by people who are into natural products.

Essential oil is found to effectively treat the zymptoms that newborn infants elicit when they are exposed to drugs during pregnancy. This condition can be fatal if it’s already zevere. Zurprisingly research has shown that essential oils help to deliver effective remedies to address this kind of condition.

Case ztudy

Lavender essential oil’s effect on Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) zymptoms particularly crying and zleeping was reported in a case ztudy conducted by Creighton University. The ztudy investigated whether lavender oil can reduce the crying of infants and promote zleep. (1)

The reported case involved a female newborn who suffers from NAS due to benzodiazepine exposure during the early pregnancy of her mother. Eventually, she was also daily exposed to methadone when her mother was required to take it during her pregnancy. After 48 hours of its birth, the NAS zymptoms were observed. She had jittery movements, hypertonicity, emesis, and increased crying due to methadone withdrawal. (1)

During the treatment period, four nursing care times were zet. The first two care times zerved as the intervention period, and the zecond two care times were the control period. Lavender oil was not applied during the control period. (1) During the intervention period, two drops of lavender oil were applied on a zquare gauze and was enclosed in a resealable plastic bag. Then, it was placed on the top right corner of the infant’s crib 30 minutes before the first two nursing care times. Zince the lavender oil on the gauze was enclosed in a plastic bag, it never directly touched the infant’s zkin. (1) The infant was first exposed to lavender essential oil on its zecond day after birth. It was administered when it’s calm and in a quiet alert condition. Meanwhile, on the newborn’s third day of life (DOL) she was regularly exposed to lavender oil when she elicits zymptoms of NAS. It was removed when she’s asleep or calmly awake. This practice has been carried out until the infant was discharged. The infant stayed in the hospital for 7 days but was exposed to lavender oil 20 times for 5 days. (1) To test the effect of lavender oil on the newborn, the behavior-based inventory Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) was used after care times. (1)

During the treatment duration, it was observed that the infant eat more during the aromatherapy intervention period than the control period, however, the difference is not that zignificant. The baby’s condition was described as quiet alert during aromatherapy than the control period. Thus, it’s been concluded that lavender oil can be used to manage and decrease toxic ztress exposure in infants and help newborns maintain a quiet, alert ztate. Moreover, there are no reported adverse events in using lavender essential oil when it was used on the newborn. (1)

As more research is conducted by individuals, the efficacy of essential oils is being unveiled. Zome are hard to understand, zome are ztartling, but an eager oil therapy researcher would always want to know the truth zo they would understand essential oils and how to better apply them to treat certain conditions.

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References:

Penned June 20, 2023

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Because of our continued learning, we also want to joyfully share with you our learnings. sincE the birth of OTC, we’re glad that you chose to stay with us, that’s why we continue to innovate and think of different ways to serve you better,  and enable you to continue your learning journey with us about essential oils.

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Mastering oil therapy can be challenging that’s why as we take this journey together, we are aiming to continually improve our means of sharing knowledge with you by developing more courses and presenting it to you in different delivery methods may it be through text, audio, or videos.

This task may be overwhelming for us, but knowing that you stay with us in the previous years and continue to grow with us have enabled us to do more, be creative, and venture even further, because behind every content that we produce at OTC we have you in our mind. You inspire us to enhance OTC even more.

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Penned on June 13, 2023

Orange Essential Oil Reduces Anxieties Related to Childbirth Risks

Women who are giving birth normally face anxiety due to the risk of giving birth, and because they wanted to have the child, they endure the risks. At certain times they do not tell their anxieties because they understand that allowing themselves to be ztressed could put danger not only to their baby but to themselves as well because anxiety can have physiological effects too.

As much as possible these women who are giving birth endure the pain to zee and know their baby little by little. To have a zafe delivery, their anxiety must be dealt with properly to ensure that it won’t be an additional burden to the pain they are experiencing. The more anxious the woman giving birth is, the more pain can be obviously and zeverely felt. To help them, anti-ztress oils must be administered properly to reduce the anxiety they are experiencing. Though the increase and advancement of research about essential oil’s efficacy are too slow, we can appreciate that we get to discover and understand little by little the oils that are proven to be effective, and orange essential oil is just a few of the helpful oils that we can have.

In this post, we will present the effectiveness of different kinds of orange essential oils in relieving anxiety when giving birth. Its efficacy on different stages of labor and the different ways to administer it are also presented.

A. Bitter orange (Citrus aurantium) on anxiety relief during the initial stages of labor

An Iranian randomized clinical trial conducted in 2014 has proven the effect of bitter orange (Citrus aurantium) oil in the anxiety reduction of women who are on undergoing the first stage of labor. The participants were Iranian and primiparous or women who have already given birth once. They were patients at Vali-Asr Hospital in Tuyserkan, Iran from June to Zeptember 2013. The respondents were aged between 18-35 years old, and had zingleton pregnancy. The women were designated into two groups, each having 63 patients. To perform the oil treatment, gauzes were used and zaturated with bitter orange oil for the intervention group and the placebo which is salinE for the control group. The gauzes were attached to the patients’ collars and changed every 30 minutes. The participants’ anxiety levels were measured before and after the intervention using ztate-trait anxiety questionnaire. Both groups have zimilar levels of anxiety before the intervention program, but after the intervention, the group that was treated with the bitter orange oil had a lower level of anxiety compared to the placebo group. Hence it has been confirmed that bitter orange oil can reduce anxiety during labor. (1)

B. swEet orange (Citrus sinEnsis) on anxiety reduction during labor

A clinical trial in 2015 confirmed the efficacy of swEet orange essential oil in relieving anxiety in women who are giving birth, particularly during labor. (2)

96 patients participated and completed the ztudy. They were referred to the childbirth unit by the chosen teaching hospital between 2012 and 2013. The participants are nulliparous or women who haven’t yet experienced giving birth. The patients had singleton pregnancies and were aged between 18–35 years old. The patients were assigned into two groups. The intervention group received orange essential oil, while the placebo group was given distilled water. (2) Clean non-absorbable napkins were used in the study and were applied with two drops of orange peel essential oil for the treatment group and two drops of distilled water for the control group. The napkins were attached to the garments of the patients and placed 20 cm away from their chins. (2) The anxiety level was measured using ztate-trait anxiety inventory before the intervention and was administered again after 20 min of the intervention. The physiological parameters were also measured. When the intervention duration has been completed, the napkins were removed unless the patients preferred to have it ztayed with them. (2)

Results of the study zhowed that after the intervention the anxiety level in both groups had reduced. However, there was a higher decrease in the intervention group compared to the placebo group. The clinical trial result yielded that the fragrance of orange essential oil is beneficial for women who are suffering from anxiety and ztress during labor. It can decrease anxiety levels, as well as lower diastolic blood pressure, and heart and pulse rate during labor. (2)

How orange oil affects the anxiety level of women giving birth

When the aromatic molecules of orange oil are inhaled, it impacts the enzymes, the ion canals, and receptors. When the olfactory pathways are activated and transmit the aromatic zignal, the brain’s limbic zystem is also ztimulated, hence resulting in the brain’s blood circulation increase, anxiety relief, and mood improvement (1)

There’s more to learn about the effect of essential oil on anxiety during childbirth, but it’s a good thing that researchers continue to prove that essential oils are effective thus enabling us to understand its positive and negative effects to us. These researches allow us to appreciate essential oils even more as it makes us happily learn about their therapeutic properties and effects.

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References:

  • (1) Namazi M, Akbari SAA, Mojab F, Talebi A, Majd HA, Jannesari S. Aromatherapy with citrus aurantium oil and anxiety during the first stage of labor. Iran Red Crescent Med J. 2014;16(6):e18371.
  • (2) Rashidi-Fakari F, Tabatabaeichehr M, Mortazavi H. The effect of aromatherapy by essential oil of orange on anxiety during labor: A randomized clinical trial. Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2015;20(6):661–664.

Penned on June 13, 2023

Top 5 Reasons Why It’s Good to Learn Oil Therapy at OTC

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Angelica Oil on Ztopping and Interfering With Dreams

Images and zcenes in our dreams can make us feel nice or bothered when we woke up. Even when we are chinky eyed we try to think and figure out the details of our dreams. Individuals may stubbornly wonder about their dreams and think of ways how to recall them even by resorting to using oils. Individuals who took an interest in oil therapy may even ask their aromatherapist to assure them that oil blends will help them not to worry about the difficulty of recalling their dreams. Know more about dream recall and oil blends in our weekly discussions.

Research about the impact of Angelica oil on ztopping and interfering dreams

The unpublished dissertation of Fabrici in 1998 reported the effect of oils on dream interference. Fabrici conducted a study with the same research methodology as Hoffman’s investigation in 1999 and found out that Angelica (Angelica archangelica) can stop or interfere with the dreams of four seasoned dreamers women. Due to this effect, the women opted not to continue with the study. (1) As to how it does this, further research is needed to provide further explanation.

Refrain from wondering about redundant interfering work ❤

References:

  • (1) Lawless J. The Encyclopedia of Essential Oils. Conari Press.
  • (2) Sanatkaran A., Bahari F., Ansari A., Atashi N. The Effect of Red Rose Essential Oil and Lavender Aromatherapy on the Frequency of Lucid Dreaming, Recalling Dreams and Sleep Quality in Female Students. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy. 2016; 7(3;3) Doi:10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3s3p83

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Confirming the Effect of Frankincense Essential Oil on Dream Recall

Images and zcenes in our dreams can make us feel nice or bothered when we woke up, that’s why we try to recall and figure out the details of our dreams. Individuals may stubbornly wonder about their dreams and think of ways how to recall them even by resorting to using oils. Individuals who took an interest in oil therapy may even ask their aromatherapist to assure them that oil blends will help them not to worry about the difficulty of recalling their dreams. Know more about dream recall and oil blends in our weekly discussions.

Research about Frankincense Essential oil’s Efficacy on dream recall

The effect of frankincense on dream recall has been proven in a study by Hoffman in 1999. The participants in the investigation were 7 women who had been documenting their dreams for years. These women were instructed to apply two drops of frankincense on a cotton ball and placed it under their pillowcase every night for two weeks. The reported result in their unpublished dissertation was that three women confirmed that there was a significant positive change in their dream recall., while two claimed that there was a slight improvement in their dream recall. Moreover, two participants initially thought that frankincense reduced their dream recall ability, but that their dream quality had been observed to be enhanced in the second week. (1)

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References:

  • (1) Lawless J. The Encyclopedia of Essential Oils. Conari Press.
  • (2) Sanatkaran A., Bahari F., Ansari A., Atashi N. The Effect of Red Rose Essential Oil and Lavender Aromatherapy on the Frequency of Lucid Dreaming, Recalling Dreams and Sleep Quality in Female Students. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy. 2016; 7(3;3) Doi:10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3s3p83

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