AROMATHERAPY REALLY WORKS SAY JAPANESE SCIENTISTS
July 1st, 2009
BY MONICA DOBIE
A JAPANESE study has suggested that aromatherapy, the use of fragrant oils to promote health and well being, does have scientific credibility in that certain scents really do decrease stress levels.
Research published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry is the first to find certain fragrances have the power to alter gene activity and blood chemistry in ways that can reduce stress levels in rats.
Akio Nakamura and his colleagues at food manufacturing company T. Hasegawa Co. saw major changes in the blood and gene levels of stressed ...
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