Useful for times like these!
Several spices are known to have soothing and calming effects when their aroma is inhaled.
The most available in the kitchen [to smell]are probably cinnamon, saffron, holy basil [tulsi] or maybe our simple basil.
Other essential oils that may help are mentioned below [there are many more]
If you have to buy essential oils, then preferable choose the brands of the company NOW [good quality and reasonably priced[only for external use: smelling]
A well-known, RELIABLE brand sold in Israel is doTERRA, which is alas quite expensive[multi-marketing, a practice I don’t like!]
SOME 80 % of ALL essential oils are synthetic, according to the American Botanical Council
Stay away from these!
Lavender: you can use this from your garden.
Further: essential oils of:
Chamomile
Rose
Frankincense
Patchouli
If you have personal experience with other spices for this purpose, let me know.
medicine from harold jitschak bueno de mesquita 
Hoping you are well Dr. deMesquita. If you wish to spend a few minutes checking into this, I understand that research has been done showing that Doterra is actually very inferior, as are probably NOW, to the essential oils we can obtain right here in Israel from https://www.avaroma.com/. You can speak directly with Avraham Sand himself and he can provide for you the information about the huge difference in quality between the ‘real’ oils he produces and the imitation stuff the large companies sell.
Chodesh tov, and may you and your family stay safe.
Sincerely,
~Rivka Ester Rothstein
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EO quality is a very big problem. The company you mentioned may be excellent, I suppose.
There are very few real independent tests on essential oils as far as I tried to find out.
All of them are from the companies themselves, mostly declarations of the systems they use.
I mention NOW as this company has been shown to have in general very high standards for their supplements and therefore I “suppose” that they will not want to lose their name with “sub-standards” products in the field of EO.
Unless you have opposite proof for this I will keep it this way
DOTERRA seems to be a good company but as I write their marketing bothers me and causes a ?’bit” of suspicion., but this is my very personal idea.
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