The scent of a rose

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Another good news about the benefits of aromatherapy. Breathe in the scent of roses: German scientists have proven that the scent of the queen of flowers has a beneficial effect on the state of memory.

Experts from the University of Lübeck conducted an experiment: when students were preparing for exams, the room was intensely scented with the scent of roses. Scientists used the splash of a large concentration of the scent of roses, because a person's nose very quickly adapts to strong odors and begins to ignore them. Then, on the night before the exam, the students' room was again filled with the scent of the queen of flowers. It turned out that the smell of roses helps to restore memories, because students "scented" while cramming tickets and while sleeping, students passed exams better than those who slept as usual.

The familiar scent helps the dormant brain remember events and facts that the person has learned during the past day.

The hippocampus is involved in the mechanisms of emotion formation and memory consolidation, that is, the transition of short-term memory to long-term memory. Researchers have suggested that this part of the brain is activated and becomes more sensitive during sleep, and under the influence of aromas, memories are revived, transforming memory into long-term memory. Scientists have long known that sleep is a determining factor in the assimilation of new knowledge. Robert Stickgold, a Harvard psychiatrist who was not involved in the study, said that "the achievement of the scientists is that they have shown not only how important sleep is for declarative memory, but also determined when and how memorization occurs."

But, as noted, since people quickly become accustomed to fragrances, it is necessary to apply this memory enhancing system only when necessary.