Insomnia
Insomnia is the inability to sleep or difficulty in remaining sleeping at night.
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- Keep to a well-balanced diet and do well to avoid alcohol, white flour and its products, sugar and its
products, tea, coffee, chocolate, cola drinks, fatty and foods, additive-containing foods, too much salt and
strong condiments. Breakfast should consist mainly of fresh and dried fruits, whole cereals, seeds and yogurt.
Eat a large meal of salad at lunch and protein-based foods for dinner or vice-versa. Milk can be taken at
bedtime as its amino-acid tryptophan induces sleep.
- Take 2 teaspoons each cider vinegar and honey in 1 glass water before retiring.
- To induce sleep, take a glass of warm milk plain, or add to the milk (1) 1 teaspoon honey or (2) a pinch of
nutmeg or (3) some crushed almonds, and a pinch each cardamom and nutmeg or (4) mix together the milk with ¼
cup water and 1 clove chopped, fresh garlic and boil until 1 cup liquid remain. Drink the remaining juice.
- Drink onion juice.
- Drink sage tea to induce sleep.
- Skin a nutmeg of its outer layer and pound till fine. Mix with a little water to make paste and apply to
the temples of the forehead.
- The nutmeg paste can also be mixed with a little ghee and applied around the eyes and forehead before
bedtime.
- Mix 1 cup celery juice with 1 tablespoon honey. Take it at bedtime for a restful and relaxing sleep.
- Grind fresh fenugreek leaves to make 2 teaspoon juice. Add 1 teaspoon honey and take the mixture
daily.
- Steep for ½ hour mint leaves in 1 teacup water. Drink the mixture.
- Eat a mixture of 1 ripe, mashed banana and 1 teaspoon powder of fried cumin at night.
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