Insomnia are due to psychological disorders; grief, stress, depression, and anxiety.
Herbs help to get sound sleep by calming down & nourishing the nervous system.
Ayurvedic Causes of Insomnia: In the Ayurvedic teachings, insomnia is a fire disorder and its health restoring strategies encompass cooling off the burning in vata (nerve humour) and pitta (fire). The treatment concentrates on cooling off this bad junction by re-balancing pitta.
Herbal remedy’s sleep-insomnia
Require a good night's sleep, consider trying the following eight sleep-promoting herbs. These 8 herbs help to get sound sleep by nourishing the nervous system, sedative, pain relieving, relaxing, reduce stress. calming, improves depression, reduce anxiety, and sleep inducing.
A traditional herbal remedy for sleep disorder has calming effect on the nervous system also effective in treating nervous digestion.
Calamus root sleeps herbal [Acorus calamus L.]
Calamus root - used as a sedative and painkiller.
Calamus was first to be discovered by the Indian herbalists. The dried root has been use to treat memory impairment, melancholia, insomnia, and epilepsy. In Europe, in the late 1800s, physicians used calamus extract for stomach upset, but also use them as a sedative and painkiller. In North American, some Indians cultivated calamus and used it as a hallucinogen.
Chamomile sleep herbal [Anthemis nobilis]
Chamomile - enjoy its effects as a treatment for sleeplessness.
It has proven a very effective sleep aid, and it can be administered in a variety of ways, including being brewed as a tea and used in a sachet placed under your pillow. Unlike some herbal sleep remedies, you do not need to use chamomile regularly to enjoy its effects as a treatment for sleeplessness. It can use on the spot to provide quick relief for sleeplessness and anxiety. Chamomile tea, which is making from the dried flowers and leaves of this common plant, often proves most effective when sipped a half an hour to forty-five minutes before going to bed. Chamomile can prove especially helpful in relieving the symptoms of mild insomnia (also known as transient insomnia).
Valerian root sleep herbal [valeriana officinalis]
Valerian root - for its ability to promote relaxation, sleep, and improve stress symptoms.
It is the use as a sleep aid to help insomnia and other sleeping problems. Herbal remedy that is being promoted for its ability to promote relaxation sleep, and improve stress symptoms. Valerian is a central nervous system relaxer, and as such has been use as a calming sleep aid for over 1,000 years. When taken in the proper dosage, Valerian can induce restful sleep without grogginess the next morning, unlike prescription drugs.
Valerian has a wide range of uses in the home medicine cabinet. It is an effective stress reducer, and has benefited in cases of nervous tension, depression, irritability, hysteria, panic, anxiety, fear, stomach cramping, indigestion due to nervousness, delusions, exhaustion, and, of course, nervous sleeplessness. It also appears to have real benefits in cases of sciatica, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, shingles, and peripheral neuropathy, including numbness, tingling, muscle weakness, and pain in the extremities. Testing has revealed that it eases muscle cramping, rheumatic pain, migraines, uterine cramps, intestinal colic, and stress-related heart problems and hypertension. It has shown some benefit in behavioral problems in both adults and children. It is the use to treat attention-deficit disorders, hyperactivity, anxiety headaches, and bedwetting, and it has shown some promise in helping reduce thumb sucking and nail biting in children. It has a stabilizing effect on blood pressure and can help regulate arrhythmias.
Lastly, Valerian is useful as a digestive aid, is helpful in cases of gas, diarrhea, and cramps, and alleviates the pain of ulcers. In the respiratory tract, it is believing to be of benefit in reducing the discomfort of asthma attacks. Valerian often seems only to work when taken over longer periods (several weeks), though many users find that it takes effect immediately.
Jatamansi sleeps herbal [Nordostachys jatamansi DC]
Jatamansi used for treating insomnia, mental instability, and is used as a memory enhancer.
Its root is the use in Ayurveda. The plant is finding in Himalaya. Jatamansi is the use for treating insomnia, mental instability, and is the use as a memory enhancer. Paste if applied externally helps in inflammation, burning sensation and inflammation due to injuries. Internally, it helps in indigestion, flatulence, liver diseases, breathing difficulty, dysurea and for mental alertness. Hair oil helps to promote hair growth and calms anxiety. It is the use in Ayurvedic formulations for headache, loss of memory, improves renal function, regulation of blood pressure, aphrodisiac, and induces sleep. It is helpful in general debility and weakness caused by insomnia. The plant has a rich history of medicinal use and has value for centuries in Ayurvedic (Indian) and Unani (ancient Greco-Arab) systems of medicine. The scientific literature contains primarily phytochemical and animal studies of the plant's activity on the nervous system.
Passion Flower sleeps herbal
Passion Flower has a wonderfully calming and sedative action.
It has been describing as sedative, hypnotic, anxiolytic, and antispasmodic. Sources reveal the ability of passionflower to decrease aggressiveness, restlessness, hypermotility (unable to stop or slow down physical movement), and to raise the pain threshold. There are several other applications of passionflower; these include neuralgia (nerve pain), seizures, spasmodic asthma, nervousness, palpitations, high blood pressure, and pain. Other non-nervous systems related conditions for which passion flower may be of use include stomach upset, menopause symptoms, burns, and hemorrhoids (topical application). Outside of its use in the central nervous system as a calmative, it appears to have some antibacterial and antifungal effects.
As mentioned earlier, the passionflower has a wonderfully calming and sedative action, and it acts as a muscle relaxant. When one uses passionflower extract before going to sleep, one can wake up feeling completely refreshed and alert as never before. This is because passionflower has a sedative and antispasmodic action, and this relaxes spasms and tension if any in one's muscles.
St John's wort sleep herbal [Hypericum]
St John's wort is used for depression, anxiety, and/or sleep disorders.
It is today most widely known as an herbal treatment for major depression. In some countries, such as Germany, it is commonly prescribing for mild depression especially in children and adolescents, where cost is a concern. Standardized extracts are generally available over the counter; however, in some countries (such as Ireland), a prescription is required. Extracts are usually in tablet or capsule form, and in teabags and tinctures. St. John's wort has been use for centuries to treat mental disorders and nerve pain.
St. John's wort has been use as a sedative and a treatment for malaria, as well as a balm for wounds, burns, and insect bites. Today, St. John's wort is the use by some for depression, anxiety, and/or sleep disorders. In Germany, more than fifty percent of depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders are treating with Hypericum.St. John's Wort can limit the effectiveness of many prescribed medications such as blood thinners, birth control pills and some anticancer medications.
Skullcap sleep herbal [Scutellaria lateriflora]
Skullcap is a nervine and sedative; so useful for insomnia.
Skullcap is a powerful medicinal herb; it is the use in alternative medicine as an anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, slightly astringent, emmenagogue, febrifuge, nervine, sedative and strongly tonic. Some valuable constituents found in the plant are scutellarin, catalpol, other volatile oils, bitter iridoids, and tannins. Scientific studies are proving this a valuable plant in many areas for mental disorders. Skullcap is the use in the treatment of a wide range of nervous conditions, including epilepsy, insomnia, hysteria, anxiety, delirium tremens, withdrawal from barbiturates and tranquilizers. A medicinal infusion of the plant is the helpful to promote menstruation; it should not give it to pregnant women since it can induce a miscarriage, and the infusion is useful in the treatment of throat infections. The infusion is helpful for nervous headaches, neuralgia and in headache arising from incessant coughing, pain, and inducing sleep when necessary, without any unpleasant symptoms following. Skullcap is currently being use as an alternative medicine to treat ADD and a number of nerve disorders. It should be use with caution, because in overdose, it causes giddiness, stupor, confusion, and twitching.
Ashwagandha sleep herbal [Withania somnifera]
Ashwagandha has sedative effect and can be used to encourage restful sleep.
Indian Ginseng" directly opposes the reaction of stress by reducing the amount of Cortisol released by the adrenal glands of our body. Long-term production of Cortisol has the adverse effect on our health like high blood pressure, Stomach Ulcers, Immune depression, and Insomnia. Ashwagandha also has a sedative effect, which claims the adrenaline fueled anxiety that accompanies stressful life styles, thereby dealing with another factor that is a result and a cause of stress indeed. Ashwagandha has often been use to treat primary anxiety states. If your sleep is disturbed, this sedative effect can use to encourage restful sleep, again helping the body or recover from the effects of stress. This ayurvedic herb has use in India as an adaptogen for centuries. It is helping to increase the body's resistance towards adverse influences. It is the use for Stress, general debility, depression & moodiness, aging, fatigue (temporary and chronic), anxiety, depressed immunity, sexual debility in males, infertility, memory loss, and hormonal imbalances. Take with lots of liquid, milk, honey and ginger when under weight, bone weakness and premature aging are present.
Are Herbal remedies safe?
Remember that herbs are medicines, thus it too has some side effects. Herbal remedies can also interact with other medicines. It is best to get registered herbal practitioner’s advice before taking it, particularly if the treatment is for pregnant women, breast-feeding mother, child, or older people.