More and more often we hear about sleep disorders and people who sleep poorly, cannot sleep, wake up during the night or even suffer from insomnia.
It happens to many people that they cannot sleep or cannot get to sleep when even in the evening it starts to get very hot. Some relief we can find after a nice cool showerbutif the evening is very humid after a short while we start sweating again and goodbye sleep! Unfortunately, climate change has increasingly led to very humid weather, and instead of having cool, breezy evenings we usually have muggy, hot evenings. All this clearly affects our ability to fall asleep and enjoy a good, restful sleep. One natural remedy that allows us to sleep placidly and get up relaxed but not dazed is to make use of plants with relaxing and sedative action.
La VALERIAN has sedative and calming properties, promoting sleep, also indicated in cases of gastrointestinal spasms of nervous origin and in mild states of anxiety due mainly to intellectual fatigue and stress.
PASSIONFLOWER AND LEMON BALM known for their sedative and balancing effect on the nervous system and for their tonic-relaxing properties.
L' EXCLAIM Anxiolytic and anti-stress action , improves sleep quality and reduces falling asleep time.
The WHITSPIN mild hypnotic in that it tends to promote physiological sleep as the evening hours approach but does not induce torpor during the day; it is a very useful plant in those somewhat anxious people who, when in bed, begin to feel their hearts "beating faster" and are unable to fall asleep.
La CAMOMILE has a weakly sedative effect but good anti-inflammatory, spasmolytic activity, indicated in states of irritability, pain intolerance, tendency to anger, neuralgia, insomnia, dental pain in children, painful spasms,gastro-intestinal colic , gastroduodenitis, gastro-duodenal ulcer,irritable bowel , meteorism. Useful in headache, insomnia, dysmenorrhea ( painful menstruation), sedative of the nervous system.
TIME ZONE SYNDROME
l Jet lag is a chronobiological problem, similar to issues often induced by the need to work overnight or in shifts. When one travels across a number of time zones, the biological clock is altered relative to the destination times and in contrast to the alternating light and dark to which one is accustomed. Sleep disturbances are related to an imbalance in melatonin secretion.
Melatonin is a hormone produced by the pineal g land (or epiphysis), a gland located at the base of the brain. It acts on thehypothalamus and has the function of regulating the sleep-wake cycle.
Melatonin administration can be very effective in reducing jet lag symptoms. The use of melatonin against jet lag is even more recommended for those who travel east because for our bodies, it is easier to delay the circadian rhythm than to move forward in time.
The effectiveness of melatonin is intensified if this natural remedy is administered in combination with other sedative plants.
A FEW TRICKS FOR BETTER SLEEP
Don't play sports in the evening, give up afternoon naps and avoid looking at tablet and TV screens after a certain hour (because they "high" melatonin levels) . But there are other techniques to promote rest. "First of all, you have to respect your rhythm"If you are a "lark," that is, you're perky early in the morning, you need to go to bed early. The opposite is true if you are an "owl" and are more active late at night."
Be careful not to overdo herbal teas: they are water, they fill the bladder, so in the middle of the night the instinct to urinate disturbs sleep. It can be helpful during the day to often observe a soothing image that will be spontaneously recalled from the mind in the evening when needed." Even sleeping in the nude can be a weapon against insomnia: our circadian rhythm naturally drops our body temperature when we sleep. Pajamas, by disturbing this natural drop in temperature, may hinder sleep.