[Avodah] Aromatherapy

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:54:23 -0500
Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

...

> Well, there is a whole industry today of scents one can buy for the sole
> sake of their lingering effect. The intent is, for examples, to bring
> a calm or an alertness that lasts beyond the length of the candle /
> scented oil. (I am not saying this works or doesn't work; I never tried
> it. Perhaps it's a placebo effect -- but mah bein placebo le-actual in
> a case like this?)

Or perhaps it has no effect at all; self-reporting is notoriously
unreliable.

Yitzhak
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