We must not forget that with a full stomach it is impossible to go to bed, it is harmful not only for health, but also for sleep. Because the circulatory system and stomach function during deep sleep.
Several remedies to get rid of insomnia
Use of essential oils
Take an aromatic bath for the night with the addition of peppermint. You can turn on an aromatic lamp or drip oil on a pillow.
Acupressure. Mass the point in the center of the heel, at a distance of 1 centimeter from the edge.
Yoga. Five minutes of breathing. Let's exhale through one nostril, beforehand having closed another nostril a finger. After exhalation, close the first nostril and exhale through the other nostril. This is the breathing cycle. We continue in turn 4 of these cycles in one direction, and then in the other. Then for three minutes we speak mentally the sound "Oommmm". And in the end, we lie on our back and do five cycles of breathing "2 to 1", here the exhalation should be twice as long as inhaling. Turn over to the right side, perform 5 cycles of respiration "2 to 1", then on the left side and perform 5 cycles of this breath.
Physical stress. Let's try, as much as possible to strain the muscles of the whole body, for this hand, squeeze into fists, stretch the legs, press and feet, feel a lot of physical stress. Hold on for about 15 or 20 seconds, then relax. If necessary, repeat. This tension, and then relaxation, switches the body from heavy thoughts and soothes it.
To prevent insomnia, you must follow the usual rules, namely:
- Lie down and wake up at one time.
- Sleep in a darkened room, on a comfortable bed.
- During the day, do not make yourself a period of short sleep.
- Before going to sleep do not arrange for yourself any complicated mental activity.
- No stimulating drugs, cigarettes and alcohol.
It is better to go to bed early and get up early. If you have only a short period of insomnia, for example, under stress, and if you change the diet, use dietary supplements, it will help restore normal sleep. If the diet is properly formulated, the body fat will gradually return to normal and the weight will stabilize, and then you will be able to sleep well.
Often people who are engaged in mental work and elderly people suffer from insomnia. Most of these people, in order to stay constantly toned, drink strong coffee or tea in large quantities. This of course affects health badly. An organism that is weakened by a constant lack of sleep can no longer fight alone and with minor disabilities. People who suffer from insomnia, become irritable, distracted, inattentive. And over time they can develop diseases such as diabetes, obesity and hypertension.
But, nevertheless, insomnia needs and can be treated. For this purpose, use medical chemicals, which are prescribed by doctors, as well as natural. These natural products are very popular. All this is due to the fact that what the folk medicine offers has a mild effect, has fewer side effects. Most of these folk remedies can be used by people who suffer from some diseases. If the drug dues are correctly drawn up, it will help to get rid of insomnia, and of concomitant illness.
If you do not want to sleep, do not try to fall asleep and do not lie down. Do not sleep during the day if you do not want to. Do not go too early. Observe the diet. After 18:00, do not drink toning beverages, such as hot chocolate, tea, coffee. Twice a week do sports and every day in the mornings or throughout the day do gymnastics. And before bedtime, avoid heavy loads. Well relaxes before going to bed cycling or walking. Do not go to bed in an irritated state. Try to relax for the night, it can be good water procedures, meditation, easy massage, interesting, just not an exciting book.
Create your own sleep preparation rules and follow them. Teach your body to go to bed at one time. If, despite everything, you can not fall asleep, you need to listen to quiet music. Before going to bed in the bedroom, you need to create comfortable conditions - if the air in the bedroom is dry, put the humidifier, remove extraneous sounds that prevent you, air a room before bed.
As a sleeping pill, do not take alcohol, although some people can recommend it in small doses. In some cases, alcohol may contribute to better sleep, but this is only an apparent improvement. Sleep becomes shallow, short, and alcohol can cause frustration, morning headaches, reduces performance throughout the day, which only exacerbates insomnia.
Insomnia. Treatment of insomnia with folk remedies
Insomnia is a disorder of sleep when there is a disturbance of falling asleep or accompanied by premature awakening or intermittent superficial sleep.
Recipes of traditional medicine for insomnia
1. 50 grams of dill seeds cook on low heat for 15 or 20 minutes in a half-liter of Cahors wine or in port. We insist, wrapping the infusion for 1 hour, then strain and squeeze. We take before going to bed for 50 or 60 grams. This harmless means provides a good sleep.
2. Two tablespoons of cannabis seeds finely rastolchhem and sift. We will pour a glass of boiled hot water. We insist, wrapped up for 30 or 40 minutes. We drink before going to bed for 2 admission. First we will drink ½ cup 2 hours before bedtime. Then in an hour we will drink the remainder along with the precipitate. We drink necessarily warm. We accept 2 weeks. This remedy for periodic insomnia.
3. 2 teaspoons of hop cones to a glass of boiling water. We insist, having wrapped this agent for 4 hours, then we will filter. We drink a glass of remedy for insomnia, for the night.
- 1 part of the crushed cones of hop will be filled with 50 grams of alcohol. We insist in a dark place for 2 weeks. Then strain, press. We take 5 drops of tincture per 1 tablespoon of water. We take before meals 2 times a day. The second time we drink at night. We apply for insomnia.
4. Lavender oil. Before going to bed, oil the whiskey. 3 or 5 drops of lavender will be dripped into sugar and we will suck before going to bed. This will provide a good sleep.
5. Wash your feet with hot water before going to bed. This procedure will relieve fatigue, improve sleep, calm the nervous system, give energy.
6. In the disorder of the nervous system, when insomnia is used, infusion of seeds of water-lily is white. To do this, 60 grams of mature dried seeds will be poured into powder and brewed in half a liter of boiling water. We insist 20 minutes. Infusion of drinks a day for 2 times. We continue the course of treatment until we improve sleep.
7. Take the flowering tops of Artemisia vulgaris and the grass of Heather ordinary in the same proportions and mix. A tablespoon of the mixture will be filled with a glass of boiling water and we insist 30 minutes. We take an hour and a half before bedtime.
8. When insomnia is good to use fruits and flowers of hawthorn blood-red. Take 40 grams of flowers we fill with 200 ml of boiling water, take 1 tablespoon 3 or 4 times a day. Or take 20 grams of ripe fruit, pour 200 ml of boiling water. We drink like tea.
9. It causes a good sleep and calms the nervous system with infusion from the tops of Artemisia vulgaris. Take 5 grams and pour 200 ml of boiling water. We take ¼ cup 4 times a day.
10. Take a dense fabric and sew a small bag. We shall densely fill it with motley grass: thyme, cones of hops, mint, oregano, St. John's wort. We put it under the pillow for the night. Inhalation of aromas stimulates a good sleep and quick falling asleep. In the afternoon, put the bag in a plastic bag to increase the duration of the herbs.
Folk methods for the treatment of insomnia
Recipes with honey
There is no more effective sleeping pill than honey, besides it is absolutely harmless. You can visit the steam room, use an oak broom, it also calms the nerves.
Three teaspoons of apple cider vinegar stir in a cup of honey. We take 2 teaspoons of this mixture before bedtime and you can fall asleep in 30 minutes after you have gone to bed. If weakness and severe fatigue, then you can repeat in the middle of the night the reception of such sleeping pills. Honey has a good soothing and tonic effect, and in combination with apple cider vinegar it will be even more effective for insomnia.
We will collect on 2 parts of leaves of peppermint and flowers of lavender, on 3 parts a rhizome with roots of Valerian officinalis and flowers of a camomile chemist's. Two tablespoons of the mixture for 15 minutes, we insist in a glass of boiling water. We drink infusion for a day with sips for insomnia.
Fruits of caraway seeds, rhizomes of valerian officinalis, fennel fruits, leaves of peppermint, chamomile flowers, mixed. We take 10 grams of the mixture with a glass of boiling water, heated in a water bath for half an hour, let it cool for 10 minutes, strain it, squeeze the raw material and add the boiled water to its original volume. We take in the morning for 1 or 2 cups, in the evening for a glass.
We mix 5 grams of calendula flowers, motherwort. 10 grams of collection boil for 10 or 15 minutes in 200 ml of water, we insist 1 hour. We drink before going to bed for 100 ml.
Combine 5 grams of valerian and 10 grams of oregano, mix and take 10 grams of collection and boil in 100 ml of water for 10 or 12 minutes. We insist 1 hour. Let's drink 100 ml at night.
We mix 10 grams of rhizomes of Leonurus, valerian, white mist flowers, peppermint, hawthorn flowers. Take 1 tablespoon of herbs, we insist in 200 ml of boiling water for half an hour, drink a glass in the morning and before going to bed.
Mix 20 grams of peppermint, cones of hops, rhizomes of valerian, three-leafed watch. A tablespoon of salt will be poured into 200 ml of boiling water for half an hour. Drink 3 times a day for 100 ml in the morning, in the afternoon, at night.
Take 25 grams of valerian roots, 25 grams of hop cones, mix. A tablespoon of the mixture will be made with a glass of boiling water. We take before going to sleep a glass.
Take 25 grams of flowers primrose, melissa leaves, rosemary leaves, lavender flowers, mix. 2 tablespoons of this mixture, we insist on a glass of boiling water for 15 minutes. Drink sips for the day with insomnia.
Broth of young twigs of heather is drunk, like tea with insomnia, nervous breakdown, with atherosclerosis.
For 20 grams of grass fragrant violets, fruits of barberry, melissa leaves, lavender flowers, veronica grass. Herbs are mixed and take 1 tablespoon of the mixture, we pour 1 cup of boiling water. When insomnia we take 1 or 2 glasses in the evening.
30 grams of valerian roots, 10 grams of buckthorn bark, chamomile flowers, 20 grams of peppermint, stir. We make a tablespoon of the collection with a glass of boiling water, we insist 15 minutes in a warm place and strain it. We take before going to bed 1 glass for insomnia.
Tincture of oats
Spirituous tincture of green plants of oats is a fortifying and tonic. We accept for insomnia and overwork.
Tincture of fennel fruits
A tablespoon of fruit is insisted in a half liter of boiling water.
Infusion of celery
We take 34 grams of celery root, pour cold water, which is pre-boiled, cool and insist for 8 hours. We take 3 times a day for 1 teaspoonful. This means deepens sleep and increases its duration.
Insomnia can be cured by folk methods of treatment, using these simple recipes. And then you can get rid of insomnia and your sleep will be long, strong and calm.