Insomnia Remedies

6 Insomnia Remedy!

Natural ways of treating insomnia Insomnia is a low mortality and high morbidity disease characterized by decreased ability to initiate or maintain sleep. It can be caused by a variety of factors, but in this article I would like to discuss the natural was of treating insomnia as against the use of sleeping pills which I intend to disapprove. Sleeping pills may be an easy way to cure insomnia but only in the short term and for transient types of insomnia. They lead to various side effects which decrease their utility in the long run. They lead to increased day time sleepiness (narcolepsy), sort of a hang over, also have properties of drug tolerance, drug dependence, eventually leading to withdrawal episodes. Those we would now discuss the natural ways of treating insomnia: 1)      Diet modifications: in today’s medical literature, almost all the diseases have been found to have an association with diet. Hence the tried and tested formula of low calorie, high fiber diet appears here also. Try to have a healthy diet, not only for this disease but also for your general health. Addition of red meat and vegetables rich in magnesium would also help. 2)      Relaxed sleeping atmosphere: make sure that your surroundings stay quiet, low light conditions and a relaxed state of mind is very important for optimal sleep. If surroundings noise level is outside your control, go in for a set of ear plugs. For relaxed state of mind, do not watch television, play games just before sleeping 3)      Decreased caffeine in your life: caffeine is a brain stimulate present in coffee, tea, cola drinks. Avoid these as much as possible because these are partly responsible for the general sleeplessness. Another agent you need to look out for is alcohol. It is also responsible for insomnia in certain people. 4)      Maintain a regular schedule f sleep: this is perhaps the most important part of the whole discourse. A regular schedule of sleep, for example, 8 hours sleep at night no sleeping during the day should be strictly enforced for the whole lifestyle modification to take effect. It ensures that your circadian rhythm (the biological time keeping mechanism of your body) stays right. 5)      Exercise: a little bit of exercise during the dy ensures that you are tired enough to go to sleep the moment you lie down. Apart from this exercise is usually required at all ages to ensure weight control. 6)      Yoga and meditation: This field of unexplored potential. It is not known how yoga helps in maintaining proper functioning of body but it is a great way to dispel insomnia and for that matter any chronic non organic disease. Meditation is self explanatory as it helps to relax the mind before sleeping.   Those as we can see clearly with this many ways to counter insomnia sleeping pills should be seen as only a supplementary therapy, rather than a cure in itself.. hope you like it... thank you