Research Progress of Essential Oils for Insomnia
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Traditional insomnia medications can cause headaches, dizziness and drowsiness, while aromatherapy has a long history of treating insomnia, with essential oils being a relatively new field. Essential oils, as volatile oils extracted from plants, contain a large number of sesquiterpenes, and many researchers have found that sesquiterpenes are the main component of essential oils for insomnia. The available research has found that essential oils for insomnia are effective by a variety of chemical components, targets and mechanisms of action. Therefore, this paper focuses on the main chemical components, targets, and mechanisms of action of the current essential oils for insomnia to provide a basis for future research on the treatment of insomnia with essential oils.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/jn.v12i2.276
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