Skipping the Chemicals

Skipping the Chemicals

Essential Oils You Should Keep Handy For Treating Anxiety

by Ellie Mitchelle

Essential oils are used every day for a variety of applications, from easing muscle aches to helping reduce anxiety episodes. If you suffer from the panic, sweating, headaches, and paranoia that anxiety can cause but you don't want to use traditional medicine as treatment, essential oils can be very beneficial to you. Here are just a few of the common essential oils you can use to treat your anxiety symptoms on a regular basis so you can be more comfortable.

Chamomile

Known for its soothing abilities, chamomile is an essential oil that can instantly help calm your nerves and slow your panicked thoughts. Chamomile also has properties in it that can boost your depressed mood and give you energy. german chamomile works well as a sedative to help you sleep at night. Place a few drops of chamomile essential oil on a small pad that you can slip inside a locket for your necklace or key chain so you can keep the scent close to you when you are feeling anxious or overwhelmed for almost instant relief.

Lavender

With its pleasant scent, lavender is an excellent topical essential oil you can mix in with your regular daily shampoo and conditioner, or even your lotion. Lavender not only helps calm your nerves, it works to soothe tight and stressed muscles and can help reduce headaches for better clarity. You can also put lavender oil in a humidifier to emit the scent throughout your home for lasting anxiety relief.

Bergamot

Studies have shown that bergamot essential oil can reduce blood pressure, and help balance out the hormones that trigger anxiety within minutes, making it a very potent anxiety treatment to have around for manic episodes. Apply bergamot to your bath water to enjoy its potent scent or apply a few drops of the effective essential oil to your temples for quick relief. If the oil is irritating to your skin when applied directly, add a few drops of coconut oil to help dilute it for topical use.

Unless otherwise directed, never take an essential oil internally, using it on pressure and pulse points or in water instead. Some of the herbs in essential oils, such as lavender and chamomile, can also be found in anxiety-reducing teas to give you an alternative method of relief. Talk to a natural health practitioner about other essential oils you can use to help treat your anxiety and its many symptoms so you can find better relief and enjoy life.


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Skipping the Chemicals

I have always struggled with allergies, and it has been a huge challenge in my life. When I was a baby, I was allergic to milk and grains, which made it hard for my parents to give me the nutrition that I needed. As an adult, I have also been diagnosed with allergies to several medications, which has made it hard to get medical care. Fortunately, a few years ago I found an alternative solution to my woes. My friend recommended a natural health care clinic, and I was able to use it to avoid common medications that I was allergic to. This blog is all about the benefits of skipping the chemicals and using natural health care remedies.

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