Insomnia and Homeopathy

Homeopathic remedies will help a person with insomnia or sleep disturbances improve naturally, without drugs. 
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The Importance Of Sleep!
A good night's sleep is critical for healthy brain function, normal neurotransmitter levels, hormonal health, energy and wellness.  Sleepless nights rob precious energy from our bodies for rejuvenation and can lead to chronic diseases. Beginning with STRESS, too much caffeine, too much intellectual stimulation which includes studying late at night - all of these deplete mental and physical energy and rapidly.  Most adults need 7 to 8 hours of quality sleep for optimum body functions. Teenagers need even more, as doing growing children, usually 10-12 hours.  Many teenagers and colleges students are severely fatigued from lack of adequate sleep.

Adequate sleep is essential for proper neurotransmitter function, hormone production, liver detoxification function, overall healing and ongoing health!

Homeopathic Remedies For Insomnia And Sleep Disturbances

• Arsenicum Album
  Insomnia and chronically anxious and restless sleep;  sleep prevented from anxiety, fear and worry. Tossing and turning in bed, lying awake, can't fall asleep. Hard to let go of thoughts.  Fear of disease, health worries, death. Movements wake from sleep.  Worse after midnight or around 1 am. Chilly, better with warm, better with hot drinks.

• Calcarea Carb
  Sleepless at night and very drowsy during the daytime. May sleep for a short duration, and experience sleeplessness post 2 am. At night, a heated sensation, agitation and pulsating in the head appears due to insomnia. The person often feels exhausted in the morning with a desire to sleep, and the head may feel heavy.

• Chamomilla
  For disturbed sleep resulting from frightful dreams. The person wakes suddenly with a start; and be weeping or fearful. These episodes occur several times at night resulting in disturbed sleep. The person is sleepless till about 2:00 am. Sleeplessness from illusions of sight and hearing. The person may be highly irritable and sleepy during the day.

• Cina
  Cina is for  insomnia in children. Its use is considered when the child cannot sleep and tends to scream and kick off bedclothes. The child is cranky, irritable and restless. Cina is also indicated in children who sleep for a very short time, or in cases where a child experiences night terrors and wakes up screaming and frightened.

• Cocculus Indicus
  Insomnia that stems from mental or physical exhaustion or from cares and worries about loved ones or the family. This remedy is well-suited to worn-out people who care for others and work night-shifts. There can be an irresistible inclination to sleep in the morning with spasmodic yawning. Dreams are vivid, anxious and fearful. It may be useful for children who have a fear of ghosts that prevents sleep.

• Coffea Cruda
  Insomnia with rapid thoughts, overactive mind. Can't sleep due after surprise news, including both good or bad news.  Physically restless, nervous energy, over excitement. Worse with coffee, drugs, emotional stresses.

• Gelsemium
  Insomnia from anticipation; anxious about the future; anticipation anxiety.  Sleepless from exhaustion because it is hard to fall asleep.  Person feels dull, drowsy, eyes and limbs are heavy.  Can be sleep from itching.

• Graphites
  Drowsiness during the day, and early in the evening but then difficulty in falling asleep at night. Sleep is very light indeed; more like dozing than a deep sleep. Graphites may help where it is difficult to fall asleep before midnight on account of a rush of anxious thoughts and digestive problems. Eventually, a deep sleep arrives in the morning just as the alarm is about to go off. There may be dreams of death and fire and constant talking during sleep. It can also be a very good remedy for bed-wetting in children.

• Hyoscamus niger
  This is a good remedy for insomnia in over-active children who wake up frightened from imaginary fears or visions. They may wake with convulsions and there can be loud moaning with sleep-talking & grinding the teeth. Eventually they become drowsy and fall into a deep sleep.

• Ignatia
  Insomnia from grief. shock or disappointment.  Constant sighing and yawing.  Sensation there is a lump in the throat, hard to swallow. Can have hysterical reactions to grief. Arms and legs jerk in sleep, restless sleep.  Trembling. Worse from caffeine.

• Kali Phos
  For Insomnia due to stress or worries. Sleeplessness (mainly during the latter part of the night), excessive yawning, a sad, gloomy disposition, extreme fatigue both on mental and physical level and sudden waking from sleep in children due to night terrors are the common symptoms that indicate the need for Kali Phos.

• Lycopodium
  Insomnia and restless sleep, anxious dreams.  Wakes from hunger.  Aggravated by too much eating or fatty foods. Digestive system is upset easily, gassiness, bloating.  Hard to wake in the morning, wakes up tired.

• Nux Vomica
  Insomnia with waking between 3 - 4 am.  Sleepless from mental strain, too much study, business worries. Irritable, yawning.  Worse from coffee, alcohol and over indulgence. Sleepy after meals.  Walks and talks in sleep.  Sensitive to noise and stimulus.  Usually chilly, worse from cold.

• Opium (Papaver somniferum)
  This remedy is very helpful for insomnia from slight noises, where the bed feels too hot and there is moaning and jerking of limbs in sleep. There is great sleepiness on reading or concentrating, but once lying in bed there is an absolute inability to go to sleep. Once finally asleep it is filled with anxious dreams & nightmares or pleasant and fantastical dreams. Sleep is stupefying, and it is really hard to get up and out of bed in the morning.

• Passiflora Incarnata
  For treating insomnia in older persons. This medicine is prepared from a plant named ‘passion flower’. The person needing this remedy remains wakeful and restless at night. Mental worries may also be present with insomnia. This medicine is also indicated for insomnia in infants.

• Phosphorus
  Insomnia and sleeplessness from excitement or anxiety.  Better with short naps. Sleepless in older people.  Waking from feeling to hot in bed.

• Pulsatilla Nigricans
  For insomnia appearing during the first half of night. The person stays awake and restless during the first half of the night. A fixed thought keeps revolving in the mind that prevents sleeping. An extreme restlessness is present along with sleeplessness. The person eventually falls asleep during the late hours (towards dawn). The person wakes up feeling tired and may experience excessive yawning and sleepiness during the daytime.

• Rhus Tox
  A useful medicine to treat disturbed sleep that results from chronic pain. The person needing Rhus Tox suffers from chronic pain in the joints or back (mostly during rest time). Worsening of pain during rest interferes with sleep, and  the person keeps on tossing in bed with restlessness from pain.

• Sulphur
  Insomnia with waking between 2 am to 5 am, many ideas can prevent sleep. Often impatient, quick, competitive personality.  Thirsty, runs on the hot side.  Worse becoming hot or overheated. Better warm and dry weather.

• Valeriana officinalis
  Sleepless with nightly itching and muscular spasms from excitement, worse on waking. Disturbed sleep with tossing and anxious and confused dreams.

• Zincum Metallicum
  For restless legs syndrome that leads to troubled sleep. The person needing this medicine experiences restlessness of the feet or lower limbs. They keep on moving them constantly, and this uneasiness is worse at night. The lower limbs also feel heavy. In some cases drawing pain and cramping in legs arises. Formication (sensation like insects crawling over the skin) of feet at night may also be present.

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