Essential oils for depression include lemon balm, patchouli, rose, and damiana. Lemon balm has calming properties to help combat anxiety, mild depression, restlessness, and irritability. Patchouli also helps with feelings of relaxing to calm stress and anxiety. Breathing in patchouli helps ease depression. Rose has medicinal benefits. When used as aromatherapy, it is a mild sedative that works as an antidepressant. Damiana leaves are used to make a tonic herb that is used for those with mild to moderate depression or nervous exhaustion. It contains stimulating and restorative properties that make it valuable with anxiety and depression occur to together. It soothes and strengthen the brain and nervous system.
These essential oils are more natural approaches to combating depression. As always, make sure to check with your physician with symptoms you are experiencing.
