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Home Remedy for Insomnia

Humans need at least 7-8 hours of sound sleep every 24 hours, to remain mentally alert and physically active during work hours. Older people may sleep less at night and have small naps during the day to fulfill the body’s requirement of sleep. But getting a restful sleep is not something that everyone enjoys. There [...]

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Do you have a rare sleep disorder

Do You Have a Rare Sleep Disorder?

Many people who have sleep disorders don’t even realize that they have them, and most people with rare sleep disorders have such interesting and bizarre symptoms that they convince themselves these things aren’t actually happening and they are instead simply a product of imaginative dreams. Just because a sleep disorder is rare, however, it does [...]

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Be Aware of the Types of Sleep Apnea and Their Dangers

Sleep apnea is a sleeping disorder where there is a 10 second or longer interval in between each breath. In order to be considered apneic there must also be a neurological arousal, which is a change in EEG frequency of more than 3 seconds, and/or the blood oxygen must be desaturated by 3-4% or more. [...]

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Sleeping your way to health

Most of us don’t realize the true value that sleep can have on our bodies and minds and the majority of us don’t get enough of it. While for some of us this is due to suffering from a sleep disorder such as insomnia, others just stay up too late and have commitments which require [...]

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Herbal Remedies for Insomnia

More than anything else, the side effects that accompany conventional drugs have been the reason behind the marked shift in the general approach towards treatment. The long list of warnings that accompany drugs for serious ailments has helped in the resurgence and acceptance of herbal remedies. Treating depression and the various symptoms like insomnia that [...]

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Set the Stage for Good Sleep

Plenty of people with rare sleep disorders wind up prescribed some form of medication, whether it’s a stimulant to keep them awake during the day or something to compel their bodies to fall asleep and stay asleep throughout the night. Sleep experts caution, however, that even rare sleep disorders may be resolved without the use [...]

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RLS – A Common Sleep Disorder

Thanks to the media, restless leg syndrome (RLS) is becoming recognized by more individuals. RLS disturbs the sleep of not only the person who has it but their bed partner as well because the individual besides RLS can also have spastic limb movements that can disturb the sleep of both individuals. The individual with RLS [...]

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Bedtime Battles: Stubborn and Spoiled or Is There a Sleep Problem?

Children of all ages can experience insomnia too; it is not just partial to adults. Why won’t my child sleep?? Often when children experience insomnia it can be for some of the very same reasons that adults experience it, a change in schedule as maybe they are going back to school after summer vacation, too [...]

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Insomnia and Facial Tension

Insomnia Chamomile is a very soothing tea to put you to sleep if you’re having trouble in that area. And a magickal remedy is to take garden violet, put it in a silver bag under your pillow, and then lay back and wait for the desired effect: sleep. Dill and dandelion also work on insomnia. [...]

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Causes and Treatment for Insomnia

What is insomnia and is it a sleeping disorder? To answer these questions you need to know what a sleeping disorder is and what does it mean when someone has insomnia. When someone is said to have insomnia they have a condition in which they are having difficulty either falling asleep or staying asleep. Individuals [...]

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