How You Can Cure Insomnia Naturally.

Hi, this is Dr. Harlan Mittag. I am a chiropractor, nutritionist, acupuncturist, here today to talk to you today to talk to you about how you can cure your insomnia naturally. I am president of Nutraceutical Research, Inc. and we have an herbal formula which is showing great results with people with insomnia and which also includes valerian root.

Before talking about valerian root and how you can cure insomnia naturally I just want to talk about the alternative, the prescriptive sleep drugs. In March 2007 the FDA required a strong label warning of the risks associated with taking prescriptive sleep drugs. The labels are required now to tell you that taking these drugs can cause:

severe allergic reactions, severe facial swelling, complex sleep related behaviors, memory lapses and hallucinations. Sleep behaviors may include sleep driving, driving while not fully awake after ingestion of a sedative hypnotic product with no memory of the event.

You look at all of these possible side effects and you wonder why someone would take a sleep drug when there are natural remedies like valerian root that have no side effects. So lets look at the benefits of valerian root.

Valerian root has been around since the time of ancient Rome, its not a new remedy. It was used in ancient Rome for nervousness and anxiety. Its medicinal benefits have also been confirmed by modern science.

When researchers look at the benefits of a sleep remedy they evaluate what are called sleep parameters. These are measures of how well you sleep or how good your sleep is.

Research shows that valerian shortens how long it takes you to get to sleep. It also increases how long you sleep, or the length of time from when you turn off the lights until you wake in the morning. Valerian also decreases the number of times that you wake up during the night.

Valerian root decreases the amount of movement at night or your restlessness during sleep. Finally valerian root improves the quality of your sleep or your sleep structure. Sleep structure is how long you spend in the different stages of sleep, light sleep, dreaming, and deep sleep. Healthy sleep is not necessarily how long you are out each night, but your time in the different stages of sleep.

So there is a ton of evidence supporting the benefit of valerian root for insomnia and to support healthy sleep. Valerian was approved by the German Commission E as a calmative and sleep promoting agent which is useful in the treatment of unrest and anxiety-produced sleep disturbances.

Valerian root is more effective when used in combination with other herbs like passion flower, jujube seed and l-theanine. It is even more effective with herbs that target the cause of most insomnia which is stress and high levels of stress hormones. If you would like to learn how to cure your insomnia, please go to www.CureInsomniaNaturally.com and download the free ebook Wake Up Energized. You can also look there and if you choose buy some herbal formulas which are being shown to cure insomnia naturally.