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Essential Oils for Pain

Essential Oils for Pain

Pain is a signal to the brain that the body was injured and needs to be looked after. Are you dealing with pain right now? Then this article about essential oils for pain is for you to help relieve the discomfort you are feeling!

What a Pain!

Pain is a feeling that the body uses as a sign to say something is amiss in a particular area. Pain can be described as stabbing, aching, pinching, steady, to name a few. Some pain can be annoying, much like a headache, but other pain can be crippling to daily life.


Pain also brings a plethora of other symptoms, which are drowsiness, weakness, dizziness, and even nausea. In addition to physical symptoms, it also brings emotional effects such as anger, mood swings, irritability, and depression. Pain effects daily life and have profound impacts on relationships, jobs, and independence.


Pain is categorized as chronic or acute pain. Acute commonly is less in strength and short-term and happens when the body is injured, and then the pain is triggered. Chronic pain can be mild or severe, lasts longer, and maybe a consequence of a disease and can require more treatment.

What Causes Pain?

Pain is when nerves encounter injured tissues that send signals to the brain along the spinal cord. The nerves that carry the messages are called nociceptors.


The brain controls the action of what to do after the signal is received. For example, when a hot object or surface has touched a message through the spinal cord will cause the prompt contraction of muscles to prevent further damage to tissues within the skin. This reaction happens so fast that it occurs before the signal can reach the brain, and then the pain is felt afterward.


How the brain enacts pain varies from person to person with how the nociceptor and the brain interpret the pain. The mind can also release chemicals, for instance, dopamine, that counters the undesirable pain effects.


A study shows that the costs of the effects pain places in the United States were between $560 and $635 billion in missed days of work, lost wages, and treatment costs.

How Essential Oils Help Relieve Pain

With so many different types of pain ranging from the tiny amounts of pain caused by bug bites to pain after receiving a burn, essential oils help to reduce the inflammation, help relax the muscles, help reduce the stress that can be brought about by pain, and muscles and joint pain. Essential uses in roll-ons, massage blends, and even diffuser blends help calm the body down and help reduce brain signals to trigger more pain within the body.

Essential Oils for Pain

Eucalyptus - Eucalyptus globulus / Eucalyptus radiata- Eucalyptus has been used by the native peoples of Australia for its effects on pain from the muscle and joints. Eucalyptus includes a variety of impacts on the body, including anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, and antispasmodic. It also has cooling effects to help combat stress and mental exhaustion shown in a study published in 2013 showed eucalyptus on inflammatory and pain on patients after total knee replacement.


Eucalyptus is also demonstrated in a study done for aromatherapy effectiveness in reducing pain, in which eucalyptus was revealed to reduce pain.

Lavender - Lavandula angustifolia / Lavandula officinalis - Lavender makes for an excellent choice in relaxation and pain relief as lavender has been proven in a study to help pain a variety of different pain, as seen in this study here.


Lavender possesses many abilities to help it decrease inflammation and reduce the pain that is felt through the nervous system in a study published in 2013.

    Lemongrass - Cymbopogon citratus / Cymbopogon flexuosus -     Lemongrass helps boost the body's hormones and helps to stabilize     and reset the body's biological clock to overcome jet lag quickly that     may occur. Also, lemongrass helps boosts the nervous system and     can be used in the bath for soothing muscular nerves and pain.     Lemongrass has an outstanding reputation for keeping insects away,     controlling perspiration and for treating athletics' foot.


    Lemongrass is also great at reducing inflammatory within the body to     help with swelling and reducing pain felt from sprains, muscle aches,     or skin inflammation, as seen in this study.

Peppermint - Mentha piperita - Peppermint has been used for a long time in products such as toothpaste and candy for its minty fresh flavor. Peppermint also possesses abilities to help combat pain and headaches that may occur from pain-related causes.


Some of the components of peppermint include the chemical called menthol, which has analgesic, digestive, antimicrobial, and antispasmodic properties as seen in this study. Making peppermint an excellent choice in relief from pain with its analgesic properties to help reduce pain.

Rosemary - Salvia rosmarinus / Rosmarinus officinalis - Rosemary has been used extensively within kitchens in the Mediterranean and other places within the world. Rosemary possesses many abilities to maintain focus, mental clarity, the removal of toxins, and its ability to provide pain relief and anti-inflammatory properties. Studies have shown rosemary to possess analgesic effects to help relieve pain within the body.

Marjoram - Origanum majorana - Marjoram is native to the Mediterranean region and has been used for many years for reducing stiffness, swelling, sprains, and spasms shown in a study published in 2014.


Studies have also shown that a blend of lavender, clary sage and marjoram used at a 3% concentration were significantly effective at reducing menstrual cycle pain length from 2.4 to 1.8 days.

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