Essential Oil Recipe to Lower Blood Pressure

Name: Essential Oil Recipe to Lower Blood Pressure
Total time: 3 min
Ingredients: 13 drops Lavender essential oil; 6 drops Marjoram essential oil; 10 drops Ylang Ylang essential oil; 1 drop Neroli essential oil; 45 ml Sweet almond oil; 5 ml Jojoba Oil

Recipe Categories - Massage Oil; Circulatory Problems; Scientific Studies

By pixie

This essential oil recipe to lower blood pressure was used in a scientific study and shown to be effective.

28 people were given a weekly massage with a blend of lavender, marjoram, ylang-ylang, and neroli. They also used a body cream with the same oils once a day. A placebo group of 28 people were given a weekly massage and body cream with an artificial fragrance and a control group received no treatment at all.

The essential oil group and the placebo group showed significant differences in systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and sleep quality, with a reduction of 12-15mmHg in systolic blood pressure in the essential oil group.

Ingredients

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The dilution of this recipe is 3%. This dilution is suitable for chronic conditions like aches and pains.

	13 drops Lavender
	6 drops Marjoram
	10 drops Ylang Ylang (You might want to reduce this to 8 drops to stay within dilution safety guidelines)
	1 drops Neroli
	45 ml Sweet almond oil
	5 ml Jojoba Oil

Warnings - Ylang ylang oil is best avoided by babies and young children.

Ingredients

13 drops Lavender
6 drops Marjoram
10 drops Ylang Ylang
1 drops Neroli
45 drops Sweet almond oil
5 drops Jojoba Oil

Instructions

Mix all of the oils in a dark glass bottle. Rub the blend into your legs, arms and stomach once a day before going to bed.

If you want to stick as closely as possible to the approach used in the research study, you should also have a one hour massage using this blend once a week.

This recipe has the same ratio of oils that was used in the research study, but I would suggest using 8 drops of Ylang Ylang instead of 10. The concentration of Ylang Ylang in the original recipe is 1%, which is slightly higher than the maximum recommended safe concentration for Ylang Ylang of 0.8%. If you reduce the amount of Ylang Ylang to 8 drops, the recipe will meet safe dilution guidelines and will still be very close to the recipe that was used in the study.

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