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Lavender has a wonderful sedating effect. I like to science, so I vaped some essential oil once upon a time.. very nice calming effects that make you want to sleep, but that doesn't knock you out. Great sleep, nice and cozy.
There's limited hard science becasue what's the incentive??
But thousands of years of use in practice, so that says something.
Could be placebo
Quacks always forget that for thousands of years we died to stupid bullshit, all the time.
Modern medicine is a big reason we have 8 billion people now, instead of a few million.
Agriculture and penicillin are largely responsible for the population boom.
You don't inhale random things to see what happens what the hell is wrong with you.
Where's your sense of adventure?
I made an educated guess that my lungs wouldn't melt and my brain wouldn't shut off. It worked, was nice, might try it again.
There are essential oils I would dare do this with, but in terms of bronchial irritation and LD50, lavender oil is pretty tame.
Isn't that generally ill-advised? Or are there essential oils that are safe for that?
Extremely ill advised. I'm amazed it didn't kill him.
The incentive is a publication on your CV.
Here's one
The problem is that people don't know how to search for scientific articles, and aren't versed in understanding what makes a study a good one.
Nearly all "alternative medicines" have been scientifically studied. The difference between them and regular medicines are that the real medicines have a clear clinical benefit.