Sleep has become more and more of a concern for many people as COVID has progressed. Many people are experiencing increased stress in a variety of areas of their lives - financial, with regards to job security, fears about health, emotional and relationship stresses and many more.
Stress causes an imbalance in your body and it often shows up in the area of our sleep and it is an extremely common cause of sleep problems. Symptoms that may be experienced include difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, frequent waking, daytime fatigue, irritability, moodiness and brain fog, to name just a few.
Sleeplessness and increased fatigue creates a lot of stress on the body, which is often compounded by more sleep issues and difficulty sleeping. Most commonly, people turn to pharmaceuticals because they feel there is no other option. However, pharmaceuticals have their set of side effects or adverse health risks and do not address the underlying cause.
If you have already put in place good sleep hygiene habits and you continue to struggle with sleep homeopathy is an incredible option for sleep issues because it addresses the underlying cause rather than just fix the symptoms.
There are many homeopathic remedies for sleep concerns which can be used safely and easily at home. There is no concern with addiction or allergy or interaction with other medication when using homeopathic medicines.
Using a six C, or 30 see potency is a good place to start.
1. Nux Vomica - Sleeplessness from overwork whether mental of physical. Insomnia after mental strain or use of alcohol, coffee or tobacco. Sleeplessness from excessive study late at night.
Sleepy in the evening, hours before bedtime: waking at 3 or four AM ideas crowd on him especially with thoughts of business, lists of things to do: then falls into a dreamy sleep at daybreak from which he is hard to rouse: wakes tired.
All complaints worse from morning sleep.
Nux is irritable and hypersensitive.
2. Cocculus Indicus - Sleeplessness from vexation, grief, anxiety, and prolonged loss of sleep.
Worn out and exhausted but when the time has come for sleep they cannot sleep.
Ill - effects from long nursing and from night watching.
Extreme irritability of nervous system. Great for new moms or those who have been taking care of others.
3. Coffea Cruda - The kind of lively sleeplessness some persons experience after drinking coffee, from sudden emotions, pleasant surprises, exciting or bad news (e.g. can't settle after a party)
Simply wide awake. Unusual activity of mind and body. Full of ideas, i. e. cannot sleep.
4. Chamomilla vulgaris - Sleepy, but cannot sleep. Restless. Chamomilla is irritable; capricious; uncivil. Frantic with "cannot bear it!" - in adults and teething babies. Pains that drive him out of bed at night, with twitchings of limbs.
Pain that comes on at night, so violet that he cannot keep still: in a child, it wants to be carried: an adult, gets up and walks the floor.
5. Arsenicum Album - Sleeplessness after midnight.
Sleeplessness with restlessness and moaning.
Tossing: uneasiness. Attacks of anxiety drive him out not bed.
Arsenicum is anxious, restless, usually chilly; fastidious. Constant thirst for small sips.
6. Ignatia amara - Sleepless from grief, care, sadness.
7. Kali phos - sleeplessness from constant stress or nervous strain. Helps to restore brain power in those who have over-studied or feel weak mentally.
These are but a few homeopathic remedies for sleeplessness.
If your sleep issues are related to a chronic health condition or mental health issues it is best to see a Registered Homeopath for help with addressing underlying cause of sleeplessness. In addition, prolonged sleep concerns can also best be addressed by a Registered Homeopath as they can work with you to help correct the underlying imbalance impacting your sleep. If you find that there is some relief, but it's not consistent you may want to consider booking an appointment with a homeopath to help you address these issues at a deeper level and get a better fit homeopathy is capable of addressing underlying imbalance related to stress which in turn can actually decrease and eliminate your sleep issues.
