On average an adult needs 7 hours of sound sleep every day. During sleep, our bodily systems go through anabolic metabolism processes. These processes help building organs and tissues; restore various systems related to immunity, nervous, muscles, skeleton; impacting mood, memory, and cognitive performance. For an example, anabolism mineralizes bones and helps them grow. Sleep is any shorter duration or poor quality sleep causes serious damage to our health. Some of the common symptoms of sleep disorder are psychological stress, heartburn, chronic pain, attention and focusing problem.
Taking care of your sleep
Sleep disorder is a common life style problem today in developed as well as fast developing economies. We all have heard of insomnia! In India alone, nearly 10 million cases are reported every year. Stress at workplace; consumption of caffeine, alcohol, nicotine; intrusion of social media in dark hours; late night work shifts; all these are hampering our natural sleep cycle. Taking care of sleep is absolutely important. And that does not mean popping in some pills. If you are experiencing trouble sleeping you should consider sleep therapies. There are many of them; but the one that you can start right now is taking chamomile tea regularly before going to bed. Chamomile is daisy-like white flower. Dried petals of chamomile flower are, generally, mixed with green tea leaves. Chamomile flower tea is a traditionally advised herbal infusion in various cultures across the globe for treating sleep disorders, anxiety and inflammatory condition; it is clinically approved too.
How chamomile helps sleeping
Chamomile extracts and tea possesses qualities of mild tranquillizer and sleep-inducer. The flavonoid and apigenin in chamomile tea bind benzodiazepine receptors in the brain. Alike any anti-anxiety drug, like xanas, apigenin binds cell receptors providing mild sedative effect. However, unlike many anti-anxiety drugs, apigenin in chamomile has no addictive effect and other terrible side effects following withdrawal of the consumption. Apigenin, present in chamomile, provides moderate feeling of relaxation; changes negativity in mood! Also, regular drinking of chamomile infusion leaves a soothing effect on nervous system reducing depression and anxiety. Other than apigenin, chamomile extracts and chamomile tea contains ingredients like, glycoside, flavonoid, coumarin, farnesol, herniarin, germacranolide and nerolidol. Many of these active ingredients are also capable of binding GABA receptor and BDZ receptors causing sedative effect on brain. Many of them are in the process of identification.
How to make chamomile tea?
Many people make chamomile tea with fresh flowers. However, it is more common to use mix of dried petals and green tea leaves. For a cup of chamomile tea, you need to take 3 to 4 tablespoon of tea leaves. 4 tablespoon will make the tea a little stronger. Pour boiling hot water in the tea pot let the leaves soak for 5 minutes. You can add mint; or for sweetness, you can add a honey. Finally use a strainer while pouring from tea pot to cup and serve. To avoid all these hassles you can simply use chamomile tea bags. They are cleaner and quicker way to get your cup of chamomile infusion. With the mix of green tea leaves, chamomile tea bags are real health boosts. Te-a-me teas offers chamomile infusion bags prepared from the best quality Egyptian chamomile petals. These infusion bags are conveniently packed so that you can carry them anywhere you wish.
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