Research: Lemon oil for morning sickness

Research: Lemon oil for morning sickness

Lemon essential oil can help with “morning sickness” A 2014 controlled, double blind randomized clinical trial aimed to determine the effect of inhaled Lemon essential oil on nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. 100 pregnant women (6-16 weeks) with moderate nausea and...
New Research: Aromatherapy massage for diabetic neuropathy

New Research: Aromatherapy massage for diabetic neuropathy

Massage with essential oils significantly alleviated neuropathic pain in diabetes patients. Diabetic neuropathy is a painful condition resulting from nerve damage in people with diabetes mellitus (https://www.niddk.nih.gov/…/nerve-damage-diabetic-neuropath…). Zehra...
New Research: Peppermint helps with pregnancy itch

New Research: Peppermint helps with pregnancy itch

Peppermint helps with pregnancy itch! About 1% of pregnant women experience severe itching in the late stages of pregnancy. This can be extremely unpleasant. However, using a steroid cream may not the ideal choice because of potential side effects, and many pregnant...
Powers of Aromatherapy: Pain Management Meta-Analysis

Powers of Aromatherapy: Pain Management Meta-Analysis

Powers of Aromatherapy: Pain Management There is in-vitro research, there is clinical research and then when there is enough clinical data, researchers compile meta-analyses. These put together all the results of previous studies to see if there are consistent...
GC-MS analysis: what it can and cannot do

GC-MS analysis: what it can and cannot do

We asked Alexis St-Gelais, one of the founders of Phytochemia, to shed some light on gas chromatography – mass spectrometry analysis (GC-MS). He covers the basics, and then examines in detail what GC-MS can… and can’t do. Providing a GC-MS analysis is rapidly...