Lamiaceae · flower, essential oil

Lavender

Lavandula angustifolia

Human clinical trialsUse with caution

Flower and a specified oral oil preparation are mapped to human anxiety-related trials. Aromatherapy evidence is softer and not equivalent.

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Safety first

Flower tea is gentle. Internal essential-oil capsules used in adult anxiety trials are a drug-like preparation — not a dropper of aromatherapy oil in water. Do not ingest ornamental or spike lavender oils.

Tradition vs trials

Traditional record. European tradition uses the flower as a gentle nervine tea and the oil as a fragrance and topical.

Trial literature. Adult trials of a standardized oral lavender oil (often discussed as Silexan-type products) report anxiety-scale changes. This catalog does not treat every lavender oil as that product.

Practical ranges

Educational ranges — not a prescription. Culinary use is not an extract.

oral lavender oil (adults)
Specified trial products often use 80 mg/day of a defined L. angustifolia oil in capsules; this is a researched product range, not kitchen oil
EMA HMPC — Educational range only — not a prescription. A licensed clinician individualizes product, dose, and duration.

Pregnancy, nursing, children

Pregnancy. Flower tea is traditionally used; internal essential oil lacks adequate pregnancy data.
Nursing. Flower tea is traditionally used; internal essential oil lacks adequate lactation data.
Children. Do not give internal essential oil. Weak flower tea is traditional in some European practice; still a clinician decision.

Contraindications

known lavender allergy
do not ingest non-specified aromatherapy oils

Key interactions

CNS depressants · caution
Additive sedation possible with internal oil.

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