Relaxing High Blood Pressure with Lavender Essential Oil

Is it possible that something as simple as lavender aromatherapy could significantly help people with high blood pressure? Yup!

This single-blind study gave 58 people who were between 40 and 64 and who had high blood pressure either placebo aromatherapy or lavender aromatherapy. Each person inhaled their aromatherapy for 15 minutes in the evening for a week.

By the end of the study, inhaling the lavender essential oil brought about significant improvement in systolic and diastolic blood pressure as well as in measures of anxiety, fatigue and sleep.

This study hints that something as simple as lavender aromatherapy can significantly improve high blood pressure and some of the things that can aggravate it.

Complement Ther Med. December 2025;95:103296.

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