Essential oils

When I say bigger things I mean things like organ failure and cancer. My husband has PTSD and did CBT for a long time and it really helped.

Oh I see what you mean now. I work in a research facility so I hear a lot of ideas get tossed around like "meditation can heal brain tumors" and such, and while I think that'd be brilliant I don't think we can put too much stock in that kind of thing yet. But I use a lot of those kind of radical therapies and they have a wide range of capabilities for treatment.

that is all due to the relaxing smell. honestly a heartbeat pillow could have the same effect. the oil it self isn't a medicine. i appreciate what you do, but you know the oil doesn't have any healing properties. the smell relaxes them and the relaxation is the healing factor.

For the record, in this case we did try a number of other options first, and the lavender spray was the only treatment that allowed him to maintain a semi-normal sleep schedule. If the only factor was relaxation, then one of the other treatments (medication, sound machine, meditation, massage) should have worked the same as the lavender, but none of them were nearly as effective.

yes, but as a psychologist you know what triggers a relax state over a troubled mind can be several factors. this here may be a childhood sense of security. even if he doesn't remember, it could be a perfume that his mother wore or a plant growing at his childhood home. the mind does crazy things, smells being one of them. smell is one of the most powerful forces when i comes to memory. it can bring us back to many good times and many bad times. i think lavender brings him to good times. i used to have jasmine at my house as a kid. anytime i smell it i am transported to the house i lived when i was 5. it puts me in a comfortable space. i know artificial smells wouldn't work because the chemicals in that wouldn't smell quite right AND the chemicals could disrupt sleep.