Night Terrors

You wake up in the middle of the night gripped by a feeling of dread, the covers tangled around you as though you’ve been trying to fight something off in your sleep, but you can’t remember the bad dream that woke you. If this has ever happened to you, night terrors could be to blame. Also called sleep terrors, incubus attacks, and pavor nocturnus, night terrors are a kind of parasomnia disorder characterized by feelings of dread or terror which occur in deep (Stage 3 or 4) non-REM (NREM) sleep. Unlike the much more common nightmares–...

Tea To Sleep

If you have difficulties falling asleep or getting good quality sleep, you might consider taking a herbal tea to sleep. For people who are leery of taking prescription sleeping pills, which often have potentially dangerous side effects, a herbal tea to sleep has several advantages. While synthetic sleep aids are targeted to have a specific and powerful effect on the brain, natural sleep herbs are thought to holistically regulate brain chemistry in a way that is gentler on your body and encourages the onset of natural sleep rather than artificially...

Artemisia absinthum

Artemisia absinthum Absint-alsem (Dutch), Absinthe, Ambrosia (Ancient Greek), Assenzio Vero (Italian), Gengibre Verde (Spanish, ‘green ginger’), Green Muse, Grune Fee (German, ‘green fairy’), Hierba Santa (Spanish, ‘sacred herb’), Rihan (Arabic), Sage of the Glaciers, Wermod (Saxon), Wor-mod (Old English) FAVORITE USE(S): For inducing incredibly vivid and vibrant dreams FAVORITE TIME(S): 30 minutes to 1 hour before going to bed I’ve been familiar with wormwood for a long time now.  In fact, I think it may be one of my favorite plants!  I actually...

Silene capensis

Silene capensis African Dream Root, Undlela Ziimhlophe (White Ways/Paths), Ubulawu FAVORITE USE(S): For the induction of  powerful, visionary dreams. FAVORITE TIME(S): Early in the morning, before breakfast This amazing South African plant is one of those dream herbs that is only recently beginning to come in to the public eye.   I stumbled across it when researching other dreaming herbs, and unfortunately have not been able to find all that much information about it since.   I was able to find out that this beautiful plant, and its root are regarded by the...