Lavender
The Essentials
The classical Persian calming aromatic: anxiety, tension headache, and restless sleep in one small flower.
Read the whole guide on one page →Silexan (a standardised oral lavender oil) has clinical-trial evidence for generalised anxiety comparable to low-dose lorazepam.
Aromatherapy inhalation and pillow sachets are the traditional entry point — no supplement required.
Skip concentrated essential-oil ingestion outside of clinician-guided Silexan-style products.
What Else to Know
Lavender — ostokhoddus in Persian — is the classic calming aromatic of Persian and Mediterranean medicine. You know the perfume before you know the plant: violet spikes carrying centuries of use for anxious nerves, difficult sleep, and tension headaches.
Known to botanists as Lavandula angustifolia.