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Aromatherapy for Depression

Try these easy home remedies for depression to help lift your spirits and lighten your load




Using aromatherapy for depression really can help lift your mood, especially in partnership with other happiness-boosting activities such as exercise and healthy eating.


If you're sad, tired, irritable or just generally not yourself, these recipes might be just the pick-me-up you need.


Aromatherapy home remedies for depression can help ease that awful sense of being "stuck" that often comes with depression. They're also useful for relieving some of the various symptoms of depression.


For example, aromatherapy depression home remedies can help...

home remedies for depression

  • ease anxiety
  • relieve tension
  • reduce stress
  • calm fear
  • quiet restlessness
  • soften irritability
  • relieve insomnia
  • boost low energy
  • improve poor concentration

Aromatherapy won't "cure" depression, but it does trigger a positive emotional and physical response by stimulating your body's limbic and endocrine systems, which are important in regulating depression.


Click here for more information on how these systems affect mood.


It's best to use aromatherapy for depression to support other treatments if your depression is severe or unmanageable. Please do not use information from Easy-Aromatherapy-Recipes.com to diagnose or treat a medical or psychological condition. Click here to see full disclaimer.


Best Essential Oils for Depression

Benzoin, bergamot, chamomile, cinnamon, clary sage, cypress, frankincense, geranium, ginger, grapefruit, helichrysum, jasmine, juniper, lavender, lemon, lemongrass, orange, palmarosa, patchouli, peppermint, petitgrain, pine, rose, sandalwood, spruce, vanilla, vetiver, ylang ylang

Aromatherapy for Depression
Make Your Own Aromatherapy Inhaler

natural remedies for depression This portable little aromatherapy inhaler is great because you can carry it in your bag or keep it in your desk (keep an extra one in your car - it's great for road rage!) and use it whenever you need a lift.


Pour a teaspoon of coarse sea salt in a very small dark glass or PET plastic bottle and add 10 drops Bergamot, 5 drops Grapefruit, 4 drops Sweet Orange and 1 drop Geranium essential oil.


To use, take three long, slow, deep breaths of the aroma. If you're really stressed out or miserable, take a short break, then take three more deep breaths. You can do this up to three times.


citrus depression home remedies Citrus essential oils are particularly good for lifting spirits, and their uplifting effects are amplified when you combine them with the nerve-soothing properties of lavender and chamomile or the hormone balancing effects of geranium or rose essential oils.


Look for other mood-improving recipes containing these essential oils in the bath oil, bath salts and massage oil sections.


Need Ingredients?

aromatherapy depression recipes ingredients
You can find an excellent selection of essential oils at Mountain Rose Herbs(organic and plain.) They also have some nice little glass bottles for storing your aromatherapy recipes. (Just remember to use dark glass - essential oils are light sensitive.)


Herbal Remedies for Depression

In addition to using aromatherapy for depression, you can also help ease symptoms by using herbal and homeopathic remedies for depression. Native Remedies carries some very helpful herbal remedies for depression.

  • Melancholy Lift: A homeopathic remedy temporarily relieves feelings of melancholy, sadness, grief and weepiness.
  • Mood Tonic Tissue Salts: Optimize the nervous system, lift mood and reduce anxiety.
  • SAD Sooother: A homeopathic remedy temporarily relieves feelings of sadness related to the winter season.

What Next?

Look through the bath oil, bath salt and massage oil recipes. There's a lot of aromatherapy home remedies for depression that can help! Here's a sample for you to check out... Choose one or two depending on the symptoms that are bothering you the most and give them a try - it really can't hurt!


Tension Tamer Bath Salts

Happy Aromatherapy Bath Oil

Stress Relief Massage Oil

Aromatherapy Diffuser Recipes

Aromatherapy Remedies Main Page

Aromatherapy Recipes Homepage from Aromatherapy for Depression


Still Looking for Home Remedies for Depression?

Try using the search box below to find more natural remedies for depression.


Just type the word "depression" (without the quotes) into the search box, click on the search button, and every page on this site that contains the word Depression will appear. You can also do this to find aromatherapy recipes using any of the essential oils for depression.



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Best Essential Oils for Depression

Mountain Rose Herbs is my favorite supplier.

Here's some quick links for buying essential oils to help with depression.

Benzoin

Bergamot

Chamomile

Cinnamon

Clary Sage

Frankincense

Geranium

Ginger

Grapefruit

Helichrysum

Jasmine

Juniper

Lavender

Lemon

Lemongrass

Orange

Palmarosa

Patchouli

Peppermint

Petitgrain

Pine

Rose

Sandalwood

Spruce

Vanilla

Vetiver

Ylang Ylang

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