Panic Attacks Treatment - Aromatherapy For Panic Attacks

Panic attacks are times when your brain sends out the anxiety signals to your sympathetic system without any apparent cause and you get the sudden onset of symptoms like racing heart, choking, sweating etc.
The panic attack phenomenon is still, at best, little understood and the treatment given is in the form of symptomatic treatment such as anxiolytic medication like benzodiazepines and and in the form of psychiatric counseling.

Since the pathophysiology of anxiety is little understood, there is a firm role of trying out unconventional treatments for panic attacks, as very often allopathic treatment (conventional doctors) is unable to treat the root cause of panic attacks and only helps with the symptomatic relief during the attack.

Thus the patient continues to have panic attacks and therefore goes on towards unconventional therapies.

For now I shall just give you a list of some of the unconventional therapies for anxiety and panic attacks and then go on to discuss aromatherapy. These are:
1) Yoga and meditation
2) Hypnotherapy
3) Herbal therapy
4) Aromatherapy
5) One move technique - advocated by 'panic away'

Aromatherapy is a the treatment or prevention of disease by use of essential oils. Essential oils are aromatic extracts from plants which are volatile in nature. Despite the name, aromatherapy also refers to the use of these oils in the form of massages. Their mechanisms of action like all other unconventional therapies is still unproven. It is claimed by experts that they work by two mechanisms :

1) Their direct effect on the brain in the 'limbic system' and the 'olfactory system'.

2) By the direct pharmacological actions of the oils (since they are chemicals after all).


The three oils that I know about in usage, as the treatment of anxiety and panic attacks are:
1) oils of lavender

2) oils of rose

3) oils of angelica

The efficacy of these as treatment of panic attacks and anxiety is still a matter of opinion. And the opinion prevalent among most medical professionals is that some aromas have demonstrated effects on mood and relaxation and may have related benefits for patients who have panic attacks.

Final word: While these treatments for panic attacks are considered the last resort by many medical professionals, they should be given a higher status based on their utility and popularity, which the conventional therapies, despite vast usage in the treatment of panic attacks, have failed to gather.

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If you are serious about knowing about more unconventional natural therapies as treatment of panic attacks you should log on to http://panicattackss.blogspot.com/. It will enlighten you with the causes, features, treatments of panic attacks and disorder.


Parting line- Always be positive and hope for the best.