How to Use Lavender Essential Oil to Improve Your Health and Life

Lavender essential oil is one of my most favorite essential oils, and is in fact often the only one I always have on hand. Its uses are so varied and wonderful that having it around is nearly like having your own medicine cabinet in a tiny amber bottle. Its health benefits are many and varied making it one of the most used essential oils available on the market.

Lavender essential oil is the perfect tonic to improve the state of the nervous system. Its calming and relaxing properties are well known. The scent alone has the ability to remove nervous restlessness and exhaustion, and increase the mind's ability to think clearly. It has been used to successfully treat migraines, headaches, emotional stress, anxiety, and depression long before there were ever drug treatments for such things. To benefit from using lavender essential oil for this purpose you can put a few drops in a clean spray bottle with water and spray some around your home. This is also a great way to help you relax before going to bed. In addition you can put a drop of lavender essential oil on a cotton ball and tuck it in the corner of your pillow case, or purchase an eye pillow with scented with it to put over your eyes to help you relax.

Lavender essential oil has been widely used as a treatment for insomnia for centuries. In addition it helps to reduce different types of pain quite successfully such as muscle pain, rheumatism, sprains, backache, and lumbago. If you have sore joints massaging them with an oil such as sweet almond that contains a few drops of lavender essential oil can be the best remedy.

Lavender essential oil has also been used to treat the common cold, and other upper respiratory ailments. One option for using lavender essential oil for this purpose is either to use it in a vaporizer or inhaler such as would be used if someone had a cold or a cough. Another option is to apply the essential oil directly to the skin of the chest, neck and back. Remember a little goes a long way! Also test it out on a small patch of skin to be sure you will not have an allergic reaction.