Cannabis Essential Oil: A Preliminary Study for the Evaluation of the Brain Effects

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2018, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Gulluni, Nadia ^a   Re, Tania ^a,b   Loiacono, Idalba ^a   Lanzo, Giovanni ^c   Gori, Luigi ^a,d   MacChi, Claudio ^e   Epifani, Francesco ^f   Bragazzi, Nicola ^b   Firenzuoli, Fabio ^a,c  

^a Referring Center for Phytotherapy (CERFIT)   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Azienda USL 11   (Italy)

^e Don Carlo Gnocchi IRCCS Foundation   (Italy)

^f SYNLAB ACADEMY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 CARENE; 9 EPI CARYOPHYLLENE; ALPHA PHELLANDRENE; ALPHA SELINENE; BETA BISABOLENE; BETA PINENE; BETA SELINENE; CAMPHENE; CANNABIS; CARVACROL; CARYOPHYLLENE; CINEOLE; DELTA CADINENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; GAMMA MUUROLENE; GERMACRENE B; HUMULENE; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MYRCENE; OCIMENE; PARA CYMEN 8 OL; PARA CYMENE; PINENE; SABINENE; TERPINENE; TERPINEOL; TERPINOLENE; TRANS ALPHA BERGAMOTENE; TRANS GAMMA CADINENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BREATHING RATE; CANNABIS SATIVA; DELTA RHYTHM; DEPRESSION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INHALATION; MALE; MOOD; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 85040597527     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2018/1709182     Document Type: Article

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