The European explorers,soldiers,and missionaries who "supposedly" discovered the "New World", in the 17'th and 18'th centuries, also discovered a host of medicinal herbs long used by Native Healers there. "Lavender" was one such Herb (or) Flower.

Lavender is an herb/flower with anti-fungal and antiseptic properties.
It has long been used to treat wounds, cuts, burns, scrapes, insect bites, and to soothe a nervous, anxious, or frightened person or baby.
It can easily be grown in the average flower garden, and has beautiful, fragrant, purple blooms.

Recently scientists have discovered that Lavender oil has a soothing effect on the psyche.
In a small six week study in ENGLAND,researchers tested Lavender Oil on Nursing Home patients.
They wanted to see if using Lavender in place of Sleeping Pills would have the same effect.
The first 4 weeks of the study involved gradually weaning the patients off of their sleeping medication. The patients were complaining quite a bit, about not being able to sleep without their medication.
The last two weeks of the study, the researchers perfumed the rooms of the patients with Lavender Oil. The patients slept as well with Lavender Oil as they did with their sleeping pills!

In JAPAN, scientists have discovered that inhaling Lavender Oil can prevent Convulsions in mice. Scientist suspect that lavender produces the production of Natural Sedatives in the brains of mice as well as humans.

Lavender played a CENTRAL ROLE in the modern Renaissance of AROMATHERAPY.
The man credited with coining that term was a FRENCH CHEMIST by the name of RENE'-MAURICE GATTEFOSSE'.

The story goes,that in 1910,he was working in his laboratory when an explosion severely burned his hands and arms.
Exactly what happened next depends on which version of the story you hear or believe, but in some accounts, he instantly plunged his arms into a large vat of Lavender Oil.
So Miraculous was the Lavender's healing powers, that GATTEFOSSE' devoted the rest of his life to researching the Medicinal Properties of ESSENTIAL OILS.
His book,"AROMATERAPIE" is considered to be the FOUNDATION WORK in this field.