How to use essential oils to reduce fever

When the body is invaded by foreign bacteria, the body temperature often rises, and you may even encounter many physiological problems. In particular, many people cannot retain their normal energy to work and study due to high fever, which has a great impact on their lives. Essential oil fever reduction is currently a common fever reduction technology, which can not only prevent fever, but also better alleviate the side effects of taking medicines.

How to reduce fever?

When the body is invaded by foreign germs, it often raises its temperature to fight off the infection. Fever speeds up almost every physiological process, such as heart rate and metabolism. The energy generated by these accelerated reactions can enhance natural immunity and effectively fight infection. However, some microorganisms (especially viruses) do not cause the body temperature to rise when they invade. When a person has a fever, their body temperature will rise quite high until they sweat profusely and sleep for a period of time, when the excess heat energy is discharged through sweat, and their body temperature will return to normal. Essential oils can help reduce fever in two ways.

How to reduce fever

First aspect: using sweat to lower body temperature

Some essential oils are diaphoretics and can promote sweating by themselves, achieving the purpose of natural cooling. If you need to use sweating to lower your body temperature, try basil, chamomile, cypress, juniper, lavender, rosemary, and tea. (These oils work wonders, and once your body temperature returns to normal, they won’t promote sweating anymore.) If the patient can bathe, you may choose one of the above essential oils, or use a compound essential oil and add 8 drops to bath water of appropriate temperature. In addition, giving the patient a gentle essential oil massage, such as a back massage, can be very helpful.

Second aspect: directly lowering body temperature

Some essential oils can directly lower body temperature, but they should only be used when the body temperature rises to very dangerous levels (for example, a young child's temperature exceeds 100 degrees Fahrenheit). Infants and young children may have seizures if their fever gets very high and does not go away. Essential oils that can directly lower body temperature include: bergamot essential oil, eucalyptus essential oil, lavender essential oil and peppermint essential oil.

Careful people will find that lavender essential oil and peppermint essential oil can both promote perspiration and directly lower body temperature. This is because the main effect of these essential oils is to help restore body temperature to normal. Special care must be taken when using this type of essential oil. The dosage of the essential oil must be very low, just a few drops in a bowl of lukewarm water (do not use cold water to mix the essential oil, otherwise the temperature difference between cold water and body temperature will be too great, which may cause adverse reactions). Common usage: Wipe with a sponge dipped in essential oil water from time to time until the body temperature drops to a level that is no longer dangerous.