Sticker Pad Containing Essential Oil in Volunteer With High Blood Pressure

Chulalongkorn University

Status: Completed

Conditions: High Blood Pressure

Treatments: Device: Sticker pads containing lavender and ylang ylang oil; Device: Placebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05808556

EC 21233-20

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aims of the study were to evaluate efficacy and safety of the sticker pads containing lavender and ylang ylang oil in high blood pressure volunteers

Full description

High blood pressure volunteers were divided into the sticker group or the placebo group. The volunteers attached the pad to their shirt for 3, 7, 10, and 14 days. Blood pressure, pulse rate, adverse reactions, and satisfaction were investigated.

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age more than 18 years
• systolic blood pressure of more than 130 mmHg but less than 160 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure more than 80 mmHg but less than 100 mmHg
• no hypertensive medicine
• no dermatological diseases, immunocompromised diseases, seizures, asthma, or respiratory diseases

Exclusion criteria

• an unstable condition of other diseases
• olfactory problems
• pregnancy
• lactation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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34 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Sticker pads containing lavender and ylang ylang oil

Experimental group

Description:

The subjects in the sticker pad group attached an sticker pad (0.3% lavender oil and 0.7% ylang ylang oil) to their shirt, close to the right side of the neck, for 14 days

Treatment:

Device: Sticker pads containing lavender and ylang ylang oil

Placebo group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

The placebo group attached a sticker pad without lavender and ylang ylang oil to their shirt, close to the right side of the neck, for 14 days.

Treatment:

Device: Placebo