question about sniffing lavender oil?!

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Please do ** NOT ** inhale ANY types of fumes or chemical vapors or solvents. My friend has a Traumatic BRAIN INJURY (TBI) from huffing at the age of 12, now in her 30s.

Other risks of huffing include sight loss/blindness, heart/liver/kidney damage, seizures, limb spasms, hearing loss and even death, all of which can happen after the very FIRST time of use. For more information about the dangers of sniffing fumes - National Inhalant Prevention Coalition: http://www.inhalants.org

This site abeit the url (uniform resource locator) is ".com" which means commercial or for-profit, warns that lavender should ONLY be used topically (on the skin, if at all) and NEVER taken by mouth or get into the mucus membranes such as the mouth or inside the nose and "how to (possibly) use lavender oil safely": http://www.livestrong.com/article/273597… Some people are sensitive to lavender, too, such as myself.

Edit: Lavender oil may not be a typical inhalant, however, especially since it may have calming effects, there is a fine line, and it may be toxic if inhaled as the above site mentions :)

it is not dangerous at all, and it will not get you high. it's simply aromatherapy; the smell is what makes you feel good. that said, they mean sniff as in inhale the smell, NOT literally inhale the liquid! that would burn and cause a headache. you can also try rubbing some on a taper candle or dripping it in an oil diffuser, or put it on your pulse points. you can smell it all day long if you please!


EDIT: in response to the commenter talking about the brain injury and such, lavender oil is not a chemical or solvent, and no one is talking about huffing.

Lavender is considered the most useful of all essential oils. Lavender is known to help relieve headaches, insomnia, tension and stress. Its therapeutic properties have been well chronicled all over the world.

Originally an inhabitant of the Mediterranean countries, this perennial herb has long been recognized for its exotic perfume and medicinal properties. Used in past by the ancient Romans for its healing and antiseptic qualities, the name itself comes from the Latin "lavare" or "to wash". Tibetans still make an edible lavender butter to use as part of a traditional treatment for nervous disorders. Today, the essential oil of lavender is widely used across Europe and North America for a number of illness and medical problems.

Lavender is just a beautiful herb in your garden. It has gray-green, pointing leaves that grow in a bushy, spreading manner. It is crowned with tall spikes of beautiful pale violet flowers during summer. As an ornamental flower, lavender is unique, sporting exotic fragrance, beauty and a rich harvest of sweet smelling blooms. Old English Lavender, a popular inhabitant of a cottage garden, can grow up to two to three feet high, producing fragrant grayish leaves and blue/purple flowers. The more compact variety Hidcote, has darker blue flowers, grows to around a foot high and is very pretty in any flower or herb garden. The easiest way to propagate lavender is to cut softwood cuttings in the spring. However, as lavender benefits from a light pruning in early autumn, these clippings make excellent new plants too, as long as you protect them from frosts and winter bite.

Lavender - http://www.aromatherapy-blends.net/laven…

If it got you high then there would be a lot of old women with blue rinses walking round going out of their head.

Sniff it as much as you like