Natural Cure for Sleeplessness | Home Remedies for Sleep

Treatments and Causes for sleeplessness:

Complete sleeplessness is called as insomnia. This is usually very rare condition, but relative loss of sleep is very common. Difficulty in getting sleep is common among the condition of sleeplessness. Disturbed sleep or waking up in the middle of the sleep is another common feature in sleeplessness. Some people can have combination of features.
Disturbance in sleep usually starts first with difficulty in getting to sleep.

This is usually the first sign. This is a common feature in geriatric age. Lack of sleep then causes changes in mood of the individual and emotional changes follows.
Most common cause of sleep disturbance is mental worries and tension. This can be due to various reasons; work tension, family tension, excitement, anger etc. physical causes which can lead to disturbance in sleep are acidity, tobacco in any form, constipation, over eating or sleeping empty stomach etc.

Home Remedies for Normal Sleep:

Things which help in this condition are lettuce, aniseed, rauwolfia, honey etc.

• For getting normal sound sleep lettuce is useful home remedy. Lettuce contains a substance called as lectucarium which helps in sleep inducing. Juice is extracted from the fresh lettuce and half a glass of it should be taken 2-3hrs before going to sleep. Lettuce seeds are equally effective. Take a tablespoon of seeds and boil them in a 500ml of water till the water is reduced to half.
  Strain the water and take it two times a day.
• Aniseeds are useful in inducing sleep. This seeds are taken in quantity of two teaspoon and added to half a liter of water. Boil it and make it into tea form. Strain the water and this should be taken (a glass) before going to sleep.
• Rauwolfia powder should be taken with cardamom (equal amount). One can take 2.5mgm of both the powders and mix it well. They should be taken 2-3hrs before going to sleep. Those with chronic condition should take this two times in a day.
• Honey helps in inducing sleep. Take 10-15ml of honey in half glass of water. Stir it well and taken it before going to bed.

Regular exercise, yoga, meditation technique, limiting the stress level which is bearable etc should be brought into picture.

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