How to Make Lavender Lemonade to Get Rid of Headaches and Anxiety

Why Lemons & Lavender Are the Perfect Mix ?

Lemonade, though known as a sweet summery beverage, offers therapeutic benefits all by its lonesome thanks to its fruity contents. Lemon juice is a great source of many nutrients, from folate to vitamin C (the latter can help with migraines), and lemons can give the immune system a boost. Pretty much anything citrus-based is widely known in aromatherapy as an antidepressant and can help improve concentration.

With the addition of lavender, lemonade becomes especially helpful for stressed-out minds. Lavender essential oil has been used for centuries as a soothing scent, and researchers have found proof that the herb reduces anxiety, slows pulse rates, and calms our entire body. Lavender oil is gentle and powerful, and it works as an anti-inflammatory, antidepressant, detoxifier, and sedative.

Benefits of Lavender 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, antifungal, antidepressant, antiseptic, antibacterial, antimicrobial, antispasmodic, analgesic, detoxifier, hypotensive, and sedative properties.

Lavender oil possesses amazing properties:

Anti-inflammatory
Anti-fungal
Antidepressant
Antiseptic
Antibacterial
Antimicrobial
Antispasmodic
Analgesic
Detoxifier
Hypotensive
Sedative properties

Lavender Lemonade (With Lavender Essential Oil)
To create your own lavender lemonade, the recipe is an easy one. Mix the following ingredients together:

1 cup raw honey (or 3–4 cups sugar)
12 cups pure water
1 drop lavender essential oil, available at health food stores
The juice of six lemons
Lavender sprigs for garnish
Once the ingredients are well combined, cool the lemonade in your refrigerator until it's perfectly chilled. If you prefer your drink sweeter, add more honey, or take down the sweetness with added water.

How to make lavender lemonade to help relieve headaches and anxiety

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Article originally published in LivingTraditionally.com republished with permission.

Anxiety is the third most common mental health issue worldwide, and everyone suffers from a headache once in a while. Doctors can prescribe medications to help us fight back, and while it can be useful for some extreme cases, not everyone is going to benefit from medications.

There are natural ways to combat anxiety and headaches. The most delicious way is easily this lavender lemonade.

Lavender Oil

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.

You can choose to use the oil of lavender or the flower whichever you feel is more suitable for your health and well-being.

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.

Benefits of Lavender 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, antifungal, antidepressant, antiseptic, antibacterial, antimicrobial, antispasmodic, analgesic, detoxifier, hypotensive, and sedative properties.

Lavender oil possesses amazing properties:

Anti-inflammatory
Anti-fungal
Antidepressant
Antiseptic
Antibacterial
Antimicrobial
Antispasmodic
Analgesic
Detoxifier
Hypotensive
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.(1)

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.(2-9) 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.(10)

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.

Clinical Trials on Lavender Aromatheraphy

The following are selected examples of clinical trials on lavender aromatherapy:

Dunn and colleagues demonstrated anxiolytic activity of lavender oil aromatherapy in patients in intensive care units. Subjects received at least 1 session of aromatherapy with 1% lavender essential oil. Significant anxiolytic effects were noted in the 1st treatment, though 2nd and 3rd treatments did not appear to be as effective.(3)
Alaoui-Ismaili and colleagues found that the aroma of lavender is considered by subjects to be very pleasant and is correlated with changes in the autonomic nervous system.(12)
Tysoe and colleagues conducted a study of lavender oil in burner use on staff mood and stress in a hospital setting. A significant number of respondents (85%) believed that lavender aroma improved the work environment following the use of the lavender oil burners.(13)
Diego and colleagues demonstrated that people receiving lavender oil (10%) olfaction for 3 minutes felt significantly more relaxed and had decreased anxiety scores, improved mood and increased scores of alpha power on EEG (an indicator of alertness), and increased speed of mathematical calculations.(14)
Lewith and colleagues investigated the effects of lavender aromatherapy on depressed mood and anxiety in female patients being treated with chronic hemodialysis.(15) The effects of aromatherapy were measured using the Hamilton rating scale for depression (HAMD) and the Hamilton rating scale for anxiety (HAMA). Lavender aroma significantly decreased the mean scores of HAMA, suggesting an effective, noninvasive means for the treatment of anxiety in hemodialysis patients.
Lavender aromatherapy, with or without massage, may also reduce the perception of pain and the need for conventional analgesics in adults and children, though more rigorously controlled trials are needed.(16)″
DIY Lavender Lemonade

Ingredients

1 cup raw honey
5 cups pure water
1/4 cup dried lavender. dried, organic culinary lavender
6 lemons, peeled and juiced approx.

Lavender sprigs for garnish

Directions

Pour 1/2 the water in a pan, bring to boil and remove from heat
Add honey and dried lavender let steep for approximately 20 minutes.
Strain mixture and pour into larger container.
Add lemon juice and the remaining water. Stir well.
Refrigerate.

Other Ways You Can Use Lavender for Anxiety and Headaches

Mix 5 to 6 drops of Lavender essential oil to your bath water if you have dry skin.
Diffuse 10 to 12 drops of Lavender into the air during your workday for natural stress relief.
Add 2 drops of Lavender per ounce of your favorite lightly scented, unrefined organic oil (like almond oil or olive oil) for a body oil with all the benefits of lavender for improving your skin, relaxing your mind, warding off insects or helping you sleep.

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Dr. Great Success