Abstract
It was investigated using thermography how the refined plant oil used for aromatherapy would act on the autonomous nerve, and change the skin surface temperature. Subjects were comprised of 30 healthy college students (15 each for women and men). They were seated in the room of the steady circumstances and were inhaled with vegetable refined oils (lavender, and ghetto producted in Okinawa) for 8 minutes, and then the skin surface temperature was measured successively by an infrared thermography. Moreover, the relation between the skin surface temperature and general-physical complaints, CMI, phase of menstrual cycle (week from the onset of menses), favor of these perfumes or mood change after these perfumes inhalation was examined. The skin surface temperature started to descend during the Lavender perfume inhalation in the low score group of general-physical complaints in women, while its unstable reaction that descended remarkably just after the perfume inhalation and then ascended over 3℃, was observed in the high score group. It trend to descend after the Ghetto perfume inhalation both in men and women. The skin surface temperature after the Lavender perfume inhalation was lower on the 1st week of menstruation than the other week-stages. The lower temperature had continued for 10 minutes after ceasing to inhale the perfume. The reaction of skin surface temperature by both essential oil inhalation was less in men than women.
