Herbal Sleep Support

The following 6 herbs, in combination, are an excellent natural sleep aid:

Theanine

This amino acid comes from green tea. It not only improves deep sleep but also helps people maintain a calm alertness during the day.

Wild lettuce

Wild lettuce alleviates anxiety and insomnia, as well as headache, muscle, and joint pain. Wild lettuce also helps to calm restlessness and reduce anxiety, and may help decrease restless leg syndrome.

Jamaican dogwood

The extract acts as a muscle relaxant and also helps people to fall asleep while calming them.

Hops

Hops (present in beer) has a long history of being used for pain, anxiety, and insomnia.

Passionflower

Herbalists have used this to treat muscle spasms, colic, dysentery, diarrhea, anxiety, menstrual pain, and to help increase men’s libidos. It also helps in pain management.

Valerian

Valerian is commonly used as a sleep remedy for insomnia. A number of studies show numerous benefits, including an improvement in deep sleep, speed of falling asleep, and quality of sleep without next-day sedation. It increases in effectiveness with continued use.

These herbs can be used every night or as needed and can be taken with other sleep medications

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