The Effects of Opium Seed Oil Massage on Oxidant-Antioxidant Status and Biochemical Parameters

In this study, it was aimed to examine the effects of oxidant-antioxidant status and massage applicati on swith opium oil on some blood values. After the study, the question of whether opium oil can be used as aromatrapic massage oil was sought to be answered. Necessary permissions were obtained before the research. Thirty healthy women between the ages of 18-25 participated in thestudy. Participants in the study were applied as liquid (10 people) Vaseline (10 people) and the control group (10 people) for 8 weeks, 3 days a week for an average of 30-40 minutes. The fatty acids of the opium oil to be used before the massage were analyzed. Blood was drawn forthe 4th time from the participants in all groups: 1 day before and after the 1st session in the 1st week, after 12 sessions in the 4th week, and after the 24th session in the 8th week. Biochemical, hematological parameters, DNA damage, andsome vitamin values were analyzed from blood samples. Covariance analysis was used by making normality distribution in statistical analysis. Tukey-Kramer test was used for group differences. The level of significance was set at p 0.05. There were statistically significant differences in biochemical and hematological values between the groups (p