Is Tea the Perfect Natural Home Remedy for Curing Insomnia?

You want sleep, and you want it now. But many of us don’t want to eat prescription pills to force ourselves to sleep.

Instead, natural home remedies for curing insomnia can help you get to sleep in a more peaceful and replenishing way.

One of the best ways to get a more restful night’s sleep is to drink a nighttime tea before closing your eyes for the night.

Drink Tea to Cure Insomnia

Drinking tea can be part of your nighttime routine, as tea is a fantastic natural sleep aid.

Having an evening routine will signify to your body that it’s time to wind down and let the pressures of the day rest. Your body, once adapted to this routine, will respond by lowering it’s heart rate and settling in for slumber.

Some teas that are known sedatives are: Chamomile, Sage, Skullcap, and Valerian. Having a steaming cup of one of these teas can be a soothing way to slip into sleep.

One of my favorite tea recipes:

1 cup of water
1 tsp. dried chamomile flowers
3 lemon balm leaves
honey to taste

Boil the water then add the chamomile and lemon balm for about 60 seconds.  Remove from heat and let the leaves steep for a few minutes.  Strain the tea into your cup and add a small bit of honey if you’d like to sweeten it a bit.  In about 30 minutes you will start feeling this tea start to cool and  cure your insomnia.

Homeopathic health stores have several types of teas and if you find the right concoction for yourself it can really knock you out at night!

Keep some on your bedside table and if you happen to wake up during the night slurp some down and get right back to your sleep.

A Silk Filled Duvet – a Simple Solution to a Perfect Nights Sleep

Finally the secret of a blissful nights sleep is here. If you are one of the millions of people who wake up in the middle of the night being too hot, too cold or just plain uncomfortable – help is at hand! A silk filled duvet can change the way you sleep forever.

You may reckon this is a bold statement, but read on. Silk filled duvets are not anything new in fact they have been around for thousands of years. The Chinese have long known the incredible properties and benefits of sleeping under silk. Silk bedding used to be the sole privilege of the Emperor but fortunately today we can all delight in what was once reserved for royalty.

Silk is a natural fibre and as such has many benefits over more the conventional duvets. Unlike down and polyester duvets, a silk duvet “breathes”. Conventional duvets work by reflecting our body heat back to us, thus making a physical barrier between ourselves and the outside room. The result is a bit like a pressure cooker – heat builds up until we become uncomfortable and the covers are thrown off. Silk duvets are completely different in that they allow some of our body heat to dissipate. Because of this we are kept at a more even temperature throughout the night, and as a result have a better sleep.

Not only are silk duvets revolutionising the way we sleep, they are also excellent for us. Silk duvets that have been manufactured by hand using 100% pure mulberry silk, and layered in an intricate grid pattern have some incredible properties. Because mulberry silk is a natural fibre dust mites find it an inhospitable environment to live in. This is of fantastic benefit to asthma sufferers and is altogether a healthier environment for sleep. Silk duvets will last for years and if cared for correctly will outlast any conventional duvet. Properly cared for silk will not get brittle like down over time, nor will it clump like polyester making cold sports.

When purchasing a silk duvet beware of imitations. Long fibre silk duvets are preferable to small fibre. Long fibre silk duvets are essentially layers and layers of silk that have been built up in an intricate grid pattern. These layers are then stitched between a cotton outer to make a duvet. The more layers of silk, the warmer the duvet will be. Some manufacturers sell chopped or small fibre silk. These duvets consist of thousands of silk off cuts that have been stuffed into a duvet. Because the silk has not been layered the heat regulation capacity of the duvet is dramatically reduced.