This Lavender Lemonade Recipe Will Get Rid Of Anxiety And Headaches

Flavoring your lemonade with lavender is a great way to utilize the amazing medicinal properties of lavender. Lavender is a wonderful aromatic herb that calms the senses.

Pure lavender oil is an incredible essential oil to use for your own health and wellness. It’s among the gentlest of essential oils, but also one of the most powerful, making it a favorite of households for the healing properties and uses of lavender essential oil. Lavender oil has a chemically complex structure with over 150 active constituents, which explains its effectiveness at helping with a lot of health ailments. Lavender oil possesses amazing anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, antidepressant, antiseptic, antibacterial, antimicrobial, antispasmodic, analgesic, detoxifier, hypotensive, and sedative properties.

Florida researchers have found that lavender oil benefits include reducing anxiety and lowering pulse rates in nursing students taking stressful tests. And in hospital settings, lavender aromatherapy has been demonstrated to decrease pre-surgery distress and to be more relaxing than massage or merely resting.

Lavender essential oil has medicinal properties as well. It has been shown to reduce depression, improve insomnia and ease labor pains. And anecdotal evidence suggests that lavender oil benefits those with headaches, hangovers, sinus congestion and pain relief.
“Much prior research on lavender has focused on the administration of lavender via an olfactory route. The anxiolytic activity of lavender olfaction has been demonstrated in several small and medium-sized clinical trials.46-53 The efficacy of aromatherapy of lavender is thought to be due to the psychological effects of the fragrance combined with physiological effects of volatile oils in the limbic system.54 These calming effects of lavender oil and single constituents may be the origin of the traditional use of lavender. Lavender oil olfaction has been shown to decrease anxiety, as measured by the Hamilton rating scale,51 and can increase mood scores.

DIY Lavender Lemonade with Lavender Essential Oil Ingredients

• 1 cup raw honey
• 12 cups pure water
• 1 drop lavender essential oil
• 6 lemons, peeled and juiced
• Lavender sprigs for garnish

Directions
Mix all ingredients together and chill. Add more water or raw honey if needed.

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I wonder if one could switch the honey out for stevia. my wife has a diffuse thing and she uses lavender before bed it really helps me relax........i think.

Big time fact Baby1 ! Yes it does work, I have my own lil collection of oils. I like Cypress, Tangerine, and Bulgarian Lavender.. Cedar is nice too. That's why I love spending summers up in the Cascades, all the smells of the forest just get me off !!! Funny story, I was painting this lady's house a few summers ago, she had all these lavender bushes out back and I felt like that mellow painter dude with the fro on PBS,.. just as peaceful as hell on this ladder brush stroking on clouds. We have nurseries here in the Willamette valley that grows big ol' fields of that stuff, really zones ya out when you drive by there. Lol !