4 Herbal Medicines That Actually Work for Sleep | Dr. Janine

If you're looking for a natural solution for better sleep, I've got four of my favorite herbal medicines to sleep better. Now some of the advantages of taking herbal medicines for sleep is that they're not habit forming like a lot of the conventional meds that you may be taking or not taking for that reason that you don't want to become addicted to them, as well as there's no hangover effect. So if you take these herbal medicines that I'm going to describe in the right dosage at the right time you're not going to wake up groggy, which is again another side effect that a lot of people have unfortunately experienced when they've taken conventional meds for sleep. Okay let's go with my first herbal medicine that I love, it's valerian. Now valerian helps to relieve nervousness, so also if you've got anxiety, nervousness, tension, anxiety attacks, the valerian really helps to calm down the nervous system amazing as a sleep aid as well. My second one is skullcap. Now skullcap relaxes the entire nervous system, it's great for all types of anxiety, for stress, even for irritability because think about it some people do get very irritable when they're super stressed out and can be very helpful especially for women in perimenopause and menopause for again helping to balance out and relax the nervous system. Okay passion flower is number three on my list, this is a great herbal medicine that helps to balance the emotions, it helps with regulating your mood and helps with your nervous sensitivity. So it can also be used to decrease nicotine and drug withdrawal symptoms, so when you're trying to get off of certain substances maybe because you've been too stressed out and you've gone to the cigarettes or other substances then this herbal medicine is fantastic, the passion flower at just helping to keep the emotions steady and balanced and relaxing that nervousness. Okay and my fourth favorite herbal medicine is lemon balm. Now lemon balm when taken in the right dosage helps to induce a nice peaceful restful sleep and if you are that person who has a sensitive stomach so you've got a big presentation coming up, you're nervous about something and you find that you have to run to the washroom we've got that diarrhea, well the lemon balm is really known to help to ease those GI symptoms as they are associated with stress and becoming sort of overstimulated in your gut because you are in fact nervous. So those are my four favorite herbal medicines for sleep, I actually like to take them all together in combination to help to induce that restful night's sleep and hey if I'm a little bit stressed out they help in that regard as well, you just take the dosing a little bit differently. Now here's one thing I don't want you to ever take and that is melatonin as a supplement. It's not as healthy and natural as what you may think so I want you to learn more about that. I do have another video all about melatonin and it's called melatonin facts they'll never tell you. I'll see you there.