The fresh, sweet-smelling, floral, herbaceous lavender has more to claim than just its rep of rendering olfactory bliss. Lavender medicinal uses are extensive and have been an indelible part of aromatherapy for ages now. Often categorized as alternative medicine, lavender helps to ease a string of mental, emotional, and physical complications. Apart from brightening your mood and pepping up your spirits, lavender can be therapeutic in treating bruises and burns, alleviating depression and anxiety, and healing scars and sores. Figure out all about the medicinal uses of lavender in the sections below.

Benefits Of Lavender

• The soothing aroma of lavender helps to calm down anxiety and tension and induce sleep. Hence, aroma therapists often use it to treat insomnia.   
• Not only this, lavender helps to mollify backaches, ease sprains and joint pains, and relax tensed muscles.
• Because of its balming effect, lavender helps to calm nervous tensions, cure migraines, and overcome depression.
• Besides, lavender oils is deemed effective for treating respiratory illnesses like cold and cough, asthma, flu, laryngitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis, throat infections, etc.   
• In addition, being endowed with antiseptic and antifungal properties, lavender tots up as a wonderful nature drug against skin ailments like acne, psoriasis, skin inflammation, etc. What's more, lavender can also be used to heal wounds, cuts, and burns too.

Other Medicinal Uses Of Lavender

• Massaging lavender oil mixed with rosemary, thyme, and cedar wood oil can help to reduce hair fall and eliminate lice.
• Eating lavender ice cream can help to boost blood circulation.
• Because of its medicinal properties, lavender could help to lower your blood pressure considerably.
• Lavender is good for your gastrointestinal health. Not only does it help to boost the secretion of gastric juices, and bile, but also relieve symptoms of indigestion.
• Lavender also helps to boost urine production and is one of the best nature cure against urinary disorders.

Side Effects Of Lavender

• While lavender is usually deemed good for health, at times it can trigger complications like constipation, headache, and over-appetite.
• It can also trigger allergic reactions, cause skin rashes, and even lead to breast enlargements in males.

Lavender has been used as a medicine from ancient times and its medicinal uses have been accepted by all.

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