8 Home Remedies for Sleeplessness

Never under-estimate the importance of sleep if you love to have a beautiful glowing skin and eyes. Always follow a regular intervals of sleep. The whole day’s work, study, hang outs or even amusement tires your system and that will be clearly shown on your face if you don’t sleep sufficiently. Enough sleep pampers your skin and you will look too fresh the next day. Sleeping sufficiently is the best thing one can do to help themselves look pretty. There are quite a large number of days in ones life when they struggle to sleep but already see 3:00 or even 5:00 on the clock sometimes.  The main reason is stress and anxiety. To preserve the glow on the face and to maintain health, it is necessary to sleep well.

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IndianBeauty.tips brings you the top 8 remedies to combat sleeplessness:-

 

1) Chamomile Tea: Chamomile plants look like daisy plants and are well known for its medicinal properties. Chamomile herb has antiseptic, anti-anxiety and anti-inflammatory properties. With all its best natural properties it is no wonder that it is used in many cosmetics, skin treatment products and in medications. Sip a cup of hot chamomile tea half an hour before you go to bed. The infusion soothes the stomach, relieves cramps and induces sleep. Chamomile possess a soothing and calming nature which is even suggested to kids. It is mildly sedative and induces sleep by calming down the stress.    teatea

2) Hot and Cold Treatment: 

Sleeplessness is often caused due to accumulation of more blood in the brain due to heavy work.
It can be relieved by pressing with a cold pack at the back of your head and on the temples.
After this just take warm water bath. By doing so, blood is evenly distributed among all parts of the body and stress is relieved to a great extent. This is a great cure for severe headache also. You can have a good night sleep.
3) Honey and Apple Cider Vinegar : Honey is believed and is proven to be a fantastic inducer of sleep. The amino acid Triptophan present in the honey is an active ingredient to which helps in promoting sleep. On the other hand apple cider vinegar is also rich in tryptophan. It aids in digestion, acts as an anti-biotic and fights insomnia. The combination of honey and vinegar is believed to act like a ‘sleep-tonic’ since ages. Honey is in fact a predigested sugar and our stomach absorbs it within few minutes. That’s the reason why its action is so instant on us.
Take two tablespoons of honey and mix in a cup of warm/hot water. Add one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to it. Stir well and sip it just before one hour before your bed time., you will notice yourself feeling sleepy within half-an-hour.
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4) Garlic cloves:- Centuries ago, many naturalists including Pliny the Elder, a famous Roman naturalist have recommended garlic in their materia medica, for combating sleeplessness, improving blood circulation, fighting baldness, tumors, for skin glow, and then the list goes on.. These natural remedies are being preserved and carried forward till date to the newer generations.

For inducing sleep it is believed that taking few fried garlic cloves or infusing raw garlic cloves in milk and having before bed will help.
Take 4 garlic cloves and in a small wok, fry them until dark and tender.
Take them one or two hours before your sleep time. Or  cut 2-3 garlic cloves into slices and add to a cup of hot milk. Sip the infusion one hour before bed. Sleep like a baby!
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5) Grape Juice, Apple Juice:- Both of these are rich in Melatonin ,  a hormone which induces sleep. This hormone is also known to cure gastrointestinal disorders, cancer, depression and headaches. It not only induces sleep but also regulates the several phases of sleep. Research has shown that it has anti-ageing properties.
Having a glass of 100% natural Grape or Apple juice one hour before bed time is all you have to do to induce a good night sleep as well as to preserve your health and beauty.
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6) Cinnamon with honey and milk:- Every 10 grams of cinnamon is constituted with 70% of Manganese. Manganese relaxes the muscles, eases the body and helps in inducing sleep.

Boil half teaspoon of cinnamon powder in a cup of water and strain.
Add one or two tablespoon honey. Take twice daily.
Cinnamon powder may also be taken with warm milk. Just sprinkle a little cinnamon powder into warm milk, sweeten it with honey and drink it one or two times a day.It improves blood circulation, helps in aiding digestion and eliminates the wastes easily, lightens your body and gives calming affect to the entire system.
You will sleep well throughout the night. This solution also have a nature of improving skin complexion.
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7) Lavender oil:- Lavender oil have soporific qualities and massaging with the oil or sometimes even the smell will induce sleep. This is often used in aroma therapy to relax the body and mind. Massage with a few drops of Lavender oil on your temples gently for a few minutes. A few drops of this essential oil may also be added to warm water tub, for the ultimate bed time bath. It also relieves from headaches, soothes the skin and is good to cure all kinds of skin conditions. This is great mood enhancer too.
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8)Raw Onion:- Native Americans reportedly used raw onions to fight sleeplessness.  It is probably because of its high glutamic acid content that it helps in inducing sleep and fighting against insomnia.

Dice a small onion into pieces and eat it raw. It is believed that it will make you sleepy within 10-20 minutes after taking raw onion. It also aids in digestion and kills worms.
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# And above all, the most important thing to be done  is to maintain a regular sleep routine. Sleep well, stay healthy and beautiful..

 

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