MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'aromatherapy'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:14:45 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4775406&cid=t_202050_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2Fmaterial-world-part2-220307.mp3 One of my first posts about nonsense taught in universities was about the University of Westminster (April 2008): Westminster University BSc: “amethysts emit high yin energy”. since then, there have been several more revelations. Jump to follow-up Professor Petts The vice-cnancellor of Westminster, Professor Geoffrey Petts, with whom the buck stops, did have an internal review but its report was all hot air and no action resulted (see A letter to the Times, and Progress at Westminster). That earned Professor Petts an appearence in Private Eye Crystal balls. Professor Petts in Private Eye (and it earned me an invitation to a Private Eye lunch, along with Francis Wheen, Charlie Booker, Ken Livingstone . . ). It also earned Petts an appearence in the Guardian (The opposite of... DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4775406 Tue, 03 May 2011 08:10:00 +0100 4775406 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159040&cid=t_202050_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D4188%26utm_source%3Drss%26utm_medium%3Drss%26utm_campaign%3Dyet-more-dangerous-nonsense-inflicted-on-students-by-edinburgh-napier-university As promised in my last post about Edinburgh Napier University, I wrote to the vice-chancellor of the university, Professor Dame Joan K. Stringer DBE, BA (Hons) CertEd PhD CCMI FRSA FRSE, to invite her to respond. 7 February, 2011 Dear Professor Stringer, I should be grateful if you could let me know about your opinion of the degrees that you offer in Aromatherapy and Reflexology I have posted on my blog a bit of the material that was sent to me as result of recent FoI requests. See http://www.dcscience.net/?p=4049 I submit that degrees like this detract from the intellectual respectability of what is, not doubt, in other respects a good university, but since you are mentioned in the post, it’s only fair to give you the chance to defend yourself. In fact you’d be very welc... DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159040 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:08:06 +0100 5159040 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4433110&cid=t_202050_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D4049 In 2009 I asked Napier University Edinburgh for details of what was taught on its herbal medicine "BSc" course. At first it was refused, but then (as often seems to happen when threatened with exposure) the course was closed, and Napier sent what I’d asked for without waiting for the judgement from the Scottish Information Commissioner, Some samples of the dangerous nonsense that used to be taught on Napier’s herbal medicine course (now closed) have been exposed in “Hot and cold herbal nonsense from Napier University Edinburgh: another course shuts“. That sadly doesn’t mean that Napier has stopped teaching nonsense. It offers a 3 year Honours BA degree in "reflexology" (the only other place in UCAS is the University of Wales Ins... DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4433110 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:54:39 +0100 4433110 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3865233&cid=t_202050_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2F10-things-we-want-to-do-this-weekend-11%2F It’s almost our favorite time of the week. Yep, that’s right – Le Weekend. We’ve got big plans for the next few days (see below). How ’bout you? Eat cucumbers. This vine vegetable is sorely under-appreciated. We’re going to eat a cuke-centric dish at least once this weekend. Eat energy bars. We don’t always have time to cook delish dinners, so we’d better be prepared. Bake a batch of cookies. It’s almost time for our summer-long baking hiatus to come to an end, and we won’t even break the bank on fancy baking gear. Try aromatherapy. Or at least buy some nice-smelling soaps. We’re thinking lavender. Sleep. We know we say this a lot, but this weekend we’re dismissing our alarm clocks. We’re going to need o... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3865233 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:44:09 +0100 3865233 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3808654&cid=t_202050_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Ffeel%2Faromatherapy-natural-cure-or-placebo%2F A drop of lavender on your pillow for good sleep; a bit of peppermint oil on your temples to help you wake up. Aromatherapy has long been popular, but pricey “aromatherapy bars” and premium products containing high-quality, pharmaceutical-grade essential oils are all over (and expensive), so a lot of us are wondering: Is it worth it? The short answer is that none of aromatherapy’s health claims are proven, so all the health claims that you find on aromatherapy products are only anecdotal. The Food and Drug Administration says there’s not enough proof to claim medical benefits of essential oils. (Fragrances aren’t under FDA jurisdiction, but products that claim medical benefits –for example, curing insomnia or helping someone quit smoking – do require FDA a... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3808654 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:54:11 +0100 3808654 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2785660&cid=t_202050_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Faromatherapy-insomnia-good-bad-and.html Yesterday the Sleep Education Blog reported that smells can affect the emotional content of dreams. What about insomnia – can smells improve the quality of your sleep?Aromatherapy is one form of complimentary and alternative medicine - or CAM. It involves the use of fragrant, essential oils from plants. Most often the essential oils are inhaled or applied to the skin; they may be added to bathwater or to a lotion.How does aromatherapy work? The National Cancer Institute reports that there are different theories. One theory involves smell receptors in the nose; these receptors may respond to the scent by sending chemical messages to the brain.A 2006 review reported that essential oils may enter the bloodstream; it suggested that aromatherapy may act like a drug.Is sleep-related aromathera... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2785660 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:02:00 +0100 2785660 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2781668&cid=t_202050_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fsmell-of-sleep-dreams.html A new study examined how your sense of smell may affect your dreams.The small study from Germany involved 15 volunteers. They were studied using sensory stimulation during the sleep stage of rapid eye movement sleep – or REM sleep.The study compared two smells with a control condition. One smell involved hydrogen sulphide – the smell of rotten eggs. The other smell involved phenyl ethyl alcohol – the smell of roses.Results show that the “olfactory stimuli” significantly affected the emotional content of dreams. The smell of roses yielded dreams with a more positive tone; the smell of rotten eggs was followed by dreams that had a more negative tone.But the smells were not directly included in the dream content; volunteers did not dream about smelling a rose or rotten eggs.The auth... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2781668 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:14:00 +0100 2781668 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2757923&cid=t_202050_117_f&fid=34808&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthebeautybrains.com%2F2009%2F09%2F01%2Faromatherapy-grass-is-relaxing%2F Mid Brain reports: Back in the 1960s people smoked grass to relax.  Now you can sniff a fragrance and get the same effect. Actual aromatherapy? Cosmetics Design reports on a new fragrance compound based on cut grass that actually has stress reducing properties. According to the article, the technology (known as “Serenascent”) is a specific mixture of hexanals, hexenols and pinenes. The technology is currently incorporated into a room spray that can be used on bed linen or clothing; but according to the scientists behind Serenascent, the formulation can be added to shampoos, fragrances and soaps. What I found most interesting about this story is the fact that the scent doesn’t just help you to relax by reminding your of a pleasant scent, like the cutting the grass on a w... thebeautybrains.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2757923 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:01:29 +0100 2757923 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2570471&cid=t_202050_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D1864 Hilarious. (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2570471 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:28:20 +0100 2570471 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2160356&cid=t_202050_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F02%2F04%2Fusing-aromatherapy-for-mental-and-emotional-health%2F Midweek Mental Greening During my sophomore year of college, my roommate’s mother gave her a pretty big gift basket full of assorted lavender-scented items like body wash, lotion and room and pillow sprays. The gift was supposed to help promote sleep (something we both seriously lacked), but it pretty much just sat on a shelf until the night before midterms started. For whatever reason, my roommate decided that was the night she wanted to try out every single product. And I agreed with her. Apparently common sense was something we both lacked back then, too. Have you ever tried to explain to a professor you missed his midterm because your roommate doused herself and your room in lavender? It’s…interesting, to say the least. Obviously, I didn’t know much about aromatherapy at... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2160356 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:16:47 +0100 2160356 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1825837&cid=t_202050_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FjFP5u3z9uU8%2F An article in today’s Morning News of northwest Arkansas describes a multi-sensory room for adults with “severe intellectual disabilities.” The room is equipped with a “clear plastic, 5-foot-tall column of illuminated bubbles, an aroma generator and a projector that throws a variety of soothing images on the wall,” along with a giant vibrating pillow, a “vibro-acoustic mattress.” Specialty stuff indeed—-though the article begins by noting that some of these devices borrow a page from the likes of aromatherapy devices, recordings of rainforest sounds, beanbag chairs, and other 1980s trends, and got me thinking about how Charlie tends to address many sensory needs with the stuff around us: Polar fleece blankets and hooded jackets of course, but... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1825837 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:39:24 +0100 1825837 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1788642&cid=t_202050_125_f&fid=34820&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dentalblogs.com%2Farchives%2Fadministrator%2Flavender-aromatherapy-to-ease-dental-stress%2F A recent study by researchers at King’s College, London, analyzed the anxiety level of 340 dental patients before their visits. A “significant difference” was found between those who smelled lavender before their visit and those who did not, according to Dr. Koula Asimakopoulou. The procedure the patients were to undergo had no impact on the findings. Lavender comes in essential oil form and has been used to treat migraines and anxiety in the past. With this new research, dentists can easily help patients be more at ease during dental appointments. Formerly known as “aspic,” lavender essential oil was used in France as early as the 15th Century. SOURCE: Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2822105/Lavender-calms-patients-nerves-at-the-dentist.html AGORA... dental blog for dentists about dentistry blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1788642 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:00:40 +0100 1788642