Topical application of peppermint and eucalyptus oil in ethanol can reduce pain and increase cognitive performance.

“The key takeaway from the study is and here I'm paraphrasing from the study of that the combination of peppermint oil eucalyptus oil and these are basically in a ethanol suspension again people are not drinking these essential oils I want to be very clear they're applying these to the to the skin around the area that's in pain and particularly the temple and the foreheads increased cognitive performance I didn't talk about that but this is the ability to maintain cognitive functioning while in pain you know here we're talking about headache up until now just as kind of pain but that pain can be”