Preliminary Study On The Natural Incense Of Four Aromatic Plants For Anti-Anxiety Healthcare

Healthcare garden is a new garden form,which is to protect people’s health and to strengthen health-care functions.The number of white-collar workers in anxieties is constantly increasing;meanwhile,some essential oils have been approved to relieve anxiety.But the research about how to apply aromatic plants in the garden is little currently.The paper main focal points are: study aromatic plants essential oil effects and apply them in the healthcare garden to relieve anxiety;find out those effective aromatic plants that are suitable to be plants locally and easily to be managed;provide theoretical guide for further application.Based on the current anti-anxiety research results,four aromatic plants which can relieve anxiety and also are suitable to be planted in Shanghai were selected for the experiment.In October,a group of volunteers were recruited to participate in the test.Their heart rate,blood pressure,SAS data were recorded before and after they smelt the four plants.Then,the date statistics and analysis were used to study if aromatic plants in vivo aroma improves effectiveness of relieving anxiety.And it will provide theoretical basis for further researches.The experimental contents and results are shown as below: 1.Dynamic headspace sampling method was used to put TA Tenax stainless steel sampling tube into thermal desorption instrument.Also gas chromatography-mass spectrometry(GC-MS)and gas chromatography / Gas Chromatography Spectrometry are used for component analyzing.Four species of aromatic plants in vivo aroma constituents were analyzed,which were compared with corresponding aromatic plant essential oils,it is found that the main chemical composition of the same plant oil and of the vivo aroma has common phenomenon.2.Researched smell test data from wormwood,myrtle,basil and rosemary,which is shown that aromatic plants has positive effect on relieving the white-collar’s anti-anxiety.Specifically,the data compared between before and after the text of blood pressure,heart rate and SAS data(P<0.05)is significant.After study the comprehensive analysis,rosemary has the best antianxiety result,which is 77.9%.Followed by myrtle of 70.6% efficiency,then is basil (68.1%),the last one is wornwood,which is 64.7%.