Aromatherapy: Jasmine is like valium

Aromatherapy: Jasmine is like valium
Düsseldorf - The jasmine fragrance Vertacetal-couer binds to the same receptor in the brain as benzodiazepines, barbiturates and propofol anesthetic. At least inmice, physiologist in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (2010, doi:10.1074/jbc.M110.103309) demonstrated a sedative effect.

The aroma therapy, the conditional and mood disorders treated by different scents,is the school of medicine is not taken seriously. Perhaps wrongly, as the inhaledfragrance materials reach the circulation in the brain, where they could well have an effect.

The group led by Olga Sergeeva from the University of Duesseldorf can now showthat Vertacetal-coeur (or the chemical variation PI24513) the activity of a (known by19) variants modulate the GABA receptor.

The variant is located in the sleep-wake center of the hypothalamus. The activity of the "sleep active" receptors was increased in the experiments by the same extent as benzodiazepines, barbiturates or propofol.

This does not necessarily mean that Jasmine could be (in appropriate doses) as a sedative or even used as a narcotic. A certain calming effect was howeverobserved in experimental animals that were exposed in a plexiglass cage of ahigher concentration of fragrance.

Press release by the University of Bochum
The mice presented one each activity and sat quietly in the corner, the researchers report that even when people can imagine an anxiolytic, sedative, arousal andaggression-depressants or sleeping abutting effect. Can not prove by experimentalstudies. Require reform of clinical trials