How About Ayurveda As A Herbal Treatment For Insomnia?

by Anne Rivera

Insomnia might not be a deadly sickness but suffering from insomnia long-term could be serious enough to greatly decrease the quality of one's life. You could spend your nights just lying in bed hoping to fall asleep and find yourself in the mornings more tired than rested. Your concentration goes down when you're at work and you find that you're not able to do your best. You can hardly enjoy the time you're spending with your family and friends as you would either be thinking about the struggle to come that night, or you find yourself unable to focus on what your loved ones are saying. That's why it is important to find a treatment for insomnia as soon as you've suffered from it several nights and you realize it's not going away. A strategy that has worked well for many people is to rely on Ayurveda as a herbal treatment for insomnia.

Why should we believe in Ayurveda?

There are indeed pills that doctors often prescribe that to help you get to sleep, but the question is, why rely on strange chemicals and pills when a very reliable natural method already exists? Ayurveda has existed already in India for five thousand years. Throughout that length of time, you could be sure that treatments for many sicknesses have already been perfected. The system for Ayurveda wouldn't last as long as it has if it was a system that didn't produce results, right?

How exactly does using Ayurveda as a herbal treatment for insomnia work? It has to do with how the method of Ayurveda sees the human body and nature itself. Everything in nature is made up of 5 elements. These are: Akash or Space, Prithvi or Earth, Agni or Fire, Vaayu or Air, and Jal or Water. These elements compose our bodies and the mixture of these elements determines the doshas, which regulate our bodies' functions. Because of imbalance in these doshas and toxins in our bodies, we develop such things as sicknesses. Therefore, it's up to the proper balancing of these doshas and the removal of the toxins that the sicknesses we have are alleviated.

The herbs used in these herbal treatments for insomnia include Ashwagandha, which is good for the mind, and Brahmi, more commonly known as Bacopa Monera, which is now also used in memory enhancing drugs. Because of the efficacy of the herbs used, pharmaceutical companies in the pills that they produce also use these same herbs. That's a testament to how much knowledge these Ayurveda specialists have, and how modern science actually adheres to these age-old beliefs.

Though Ayurveda as a herbal treatment for insomnia already works well, the efficacy of the treatments is further improved through the use of prescribed massages and breathing methods that the Ayurveda practitioners have developed. The massage makes use of an Ayurveda specialist's knowledge of the doshas to improve the balance of the human body. Truly, with the wide range of Ayurveda methods proven to be effective against insomnia, and with the increasing availability of these treatments even in Western society, it would really be worth it for someone suffering from insomnia or whatever afflictions to at least give these more natural methods a try.