can anyone suggest an effective home remedy for insomnia?

Answer 1

stop drinking sugared and / or caffeine drinks, especially about four-six hours before bed.

especially soda!!!! you'll be bouncing off the walls!

Answer 2

Homeopathic treatment for Insomnia :-
1.PASSIFLORA INCARTA Q(Mother Tincture)
2.AVENA SATIVA Q(Mother Tincture)
Take twenty drops each in a sip of water half hour before meals at night 20 drops in a glass of water sip by sip every 15 to 20 minutes will make you go to sleep. Keep taking them till your Insomnia is cured.
If there are any other accompanying symptoms please give details for a correct an appropriate remedy.
Homeopathy treats the whole person not the disease or disorder so detailed individual symptoms as to how and what the patient feels are necessary to find the correct remedy for that specific person.
Take Care and God Bless ! Get Well Soon

Answer 3

Good sleep hygiene helps. This includes going to bed at the same time every day, a pleasant sleeping environment (no television, clean room, and bed), meditation (this can require a lot of practice), Tryptophan rich foods such as a tuna sandwich, turkey,Reading before bed helps some. Over the counter sleep aids contain diphenhydramine that tends to cause sleepiness.It is non-habit forming. Decaffeinated hot teas, Herbs like Valerian helps some. Exercise improves sleeping patterns but for some it has a stimulating effect, so it depends on the person as to when to engage in it. Some claim Melatonin found in health food stores works. Good luck and I hope you get the rest you need.

Answer 4

Warm milk, I even add a little chocolate syrup even though it has caffeine but you can get it sugar-free. Chamomile tea which Celestial Seasonings markets as sleepy-time tea. But, more to the point, what is creating the insomnia? There were several good answers already posted, like exercise during the day, winding down before bed, not taking work into the bedroom, relaxing sounds, no TV, sex. Benadryl also works and is non-habit forming. It's chemical name is diphenhydramine and it is the sleep ingredient you find in tylenol PM and others. Used as an anti-histamine, the side effect is it makes you sleepy.

Answer 5

The general answer is that it depends on which home remedies and for what. In the specific example that you give above, those things should be fine all together. It is also more effective in terms of time management for two reasons. Sometimes there are two things that work together synergistically [that means that they work better with each other than each one works alone] and if one of the ingredients is not as effective on you another one may be. I cannot guarantee you that the recipe above will cure your acne since I have not tried it -- but try it, it may help. Honey and aloe vera and oatmeal and lemon juice are all things that are effective for cleansing and healing skin, so it certainly won't hurt you to put these things all together. I also tend to advise patients that their hormonal levels and what they eat is more important in treating acne, but go ahead and use the above recipe and see how it goes. Let us know how it works....

Answer 6

I too suffered with insomnia for over 2 years...add to that hot flashing and other goodies and I was miserable.
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Answer 7

Calmazon & Kavazon are herbal remedies which will help quite the mind and body to allow you to relax enough to accept sleep.

However not knowing more about the reason you aren't able to sleep limits my ability to help you more. I might be able to suggest other self healing techniques and remedies if I have additional information.

To find out more about the herbal remedies mentioned above, go to the site listed below.

Answer 8

That would be just too easy now...would'nt it. I have severe insomnia. The one thing that works best...I go to the gym about 8pm, treadmill it for an hour. Go home, take a shower, hot first then cold...then jump into bed and turn on Jay Leno...He's a real sleep maker... lol

Answer 9

There's hundreds of "remedies" for that!!! But what most people do is mess with those constantly (often most of their lives), why not instead go to the source and get rid of what's causing it????? Not only would you NOT have insomnia, you'd also be rid of the problems and/or stress from them.

Answer 10

Try taking a hot shower, drink some warm milk, then curl up in bed and start reading a book. Heat makes me sleepy and long periods of reading (30 min) knock me out like a hammer.

Also, eating untill you're stuffed causes your body to send most of your blood to aid in digestion, so it borrows some blood flow from the brain and makes you sleepy.

Answer 11

Valerian root was studied in the Physician's Desk Reference on Herbal Supplements and was clinically proven to cause "good" or "very good" sleep in over 70% of those who tried it. I love the stuff. If that fails try a low dose of Melatonin - "nature's Ambien" - perhaps 1mg to start. Best sleep of my life was under the influence of this natural hormone.