Half of the night felt awake again and therefore irritated during the day, unfocused and tired? Then active ingredients from nature could help. Homeopathy offers medicines that gently ensure better sleep.
- Sleep disorders are common – you can naturally treat them with homeopathic drugs.
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Sleep disorders are a real common ailment. According to the DAK health report from 2017, 80 percent of all employed people in Germany are affected. But many children and the elderly also suffer from sleep disorders. The reasons for this can be very different.
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Sleep problems can have many causes
Stress and worries are often the reason why we lie awake at night, ponder for hours and therefore cannot find sleep. In addition, external factors such as noise, heat, cold or a sleeping area that is not optimally equipped can cause restless nights. Shift work and jet lag also prevent you from sleeping, because the unusual times are confusing your internal clock.
Sleep disorders can also be the result of certain diseases. Mental illnesses such as anxiety disorders, dementia or depression are also often associated with sleep disorders. Cardiovascular diseases, cancer, pain disorders and sleep apnea also often reduce the quality of sleep. Sleep disorders are typical in times of hormonal changes, such as occur during menopause, during puberty or during pregnancy. Certain medications, as well as drug and alcohol abuse, can also cause sleep problems.
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Homeopathy for sleep disorders
So sleep disorders often occur as a result or symptom of another cause. Before you use chemical sleeping pills that suppress this symptom, you should first try to find out the possible causes. If the reasons are easy to see, you can try to turn them off as much as possible.
Sometimes small changes can bring real improvements. This is especially true if the sleep disorders occur only briefly for a few days. Homeopathic medicines can be used to support this, which have a regulating effect and bring the body back into balance, particularly with few side effects. The homeopathic drugs are selected according to the respective cause and the observed symptoms of the sleep disorder.
Important: In the case of severe sleep disorders that last for weeks, a doctor should always be consulted for further clarification.
Sleep disorders due to inner restlessness
Argentum nitricum: If nervousness, fear of exams or stage fright cause sleep problems, the person concerned is very restless, is afraid of being late or failing, often complains of diarrhea and keeps rolling back and forth in bed, homeopathic silver nitrate can have a regulating effect.
Ignatia: For acute grief, such as lovesickness, but also loss and grief, as well as a feeling of deep disappointment, Ignatia is considered the right medicine. The patient usually suffers silent here, cannot fall asleep and has the feeling that a heavy load is pressing on the chest or there is a lump in the throat.
Staphisagria: Sleep disorders caused by anger, anger, anger and indignation can be treated gently with Staphisagria. In addition to sleep disorders, there are typically other psycho-vegetative complaints, such as abdominal and stomach pain, nervous tremors or an irritable bladder, as well as a tendency to cystitis in women.
Aconitum napellus: Aconite has proven effective for nightmares and awful waking up after acute stressful experiences such as a traffic accident, a natural disaster or a house fire. The blue monkshood is an important shock agent in homeopathy. Typical symptoms that speak for Aconitum in sleep problems are fear, rapid heartbeat, fast pulse and severe restlessness.
Menopause sleep disorders
Sepia: The large women's remedy sepia can also help with low side effects in the event of sleep disorders during the menopause. This is especially true if the person concerned also complains of exhaustion and overwork
Cimicifuga: Problems with falling asleep and staying asleep during the menopause can be treated well with Cimicifuga. Black cohosh is a classic homeopathic medicine for the treatment of menopausal symptoms, as some ingredients have an estrogen-like effect.
Sleep disorders due to overwork and jet lag
Nux vomica: Persistent stress and overwork, often coupled with too much coffee, nicotine and alcohol, can prevent you from getting down in the evening enough to fall asleep easily. This is where the Brechnuss can give gentle help.
Coffea: If overexcitement, sensitivity to noise and joyful experiences ensure that the person is really pumped up and sleep is therefore disturbed, this speaks for the gift of Coffea.
Cocculus: Time shifts caused by long flight times, shift work or the night waking of sick relatives disturb the sleep-wake rhythm and often lead to jet lag. Although the person is dead tired and feels completely exhausted, it is difficult for them to fall asleep or wakes up after a short time and cannot sleep through the night, so that they feel tired, weak and irritated during the day.
Sleep disorders in children
Chamomilla: When children have their first teeth, it often leads to sleepless nights. A cheek is often red and hot. The infant is restless, tearful, irritable, screams and kicks and wants to be carried around all the time. Here chamomilla can calm down and relieve teething pain.
Zincum: Zincum is considered a medicine of the nervous system. The main symptoms are daytime tiredness, pronounced physical restlessness, dizziness and headache. It can be used well for schoolchildren who roll back and forth in bed at night and grind their teeth.
Complex remedy for sleep disorders
Because sleep disorders usually do not appear as a single symptom, but often occur in connection with other complaints, it may make sense not to rely on a single remedy for the treatment, but to use a homeopathic complex remedy. These are harmoniously coordinated preparations that combine several different individual agents. This also extends the spectrum of action.
Proven homeopathic complex remedies in connection with sleep disorders are available, for example, for menopausal symptoms, teething problems in children as well as for restlessness and exhaustion.
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