Sleep Apnea & Insomnia: Effective Homeopathic Options

Sleep is important. It helps our body recover from the day’s activities and enhances memory and brain function. Without it, we would literally go crazy! To help you get a good night’s sleep, we have outlined the common symptoms and some homeopathic remedies that treat insomnia.

If insomnia is the only symptom you have, one of the following remedies may bring relief. However, once you are sleeping well, don’t continue to take it each night as each remedy will cause insomnia if taken in excess.

Arsenicum Album (Ars)

Key Symptoms: Nearly always anxious and restless. Anxiety, fear, or worry prevents sleep. Frequent starting or jumping which wakens from sleep. Sleeplessness from physical exertion.

Supporting Symptoms: Lying awake with restlessness, tossing and turning. Cannot lie still in bed – has to get up and wander around from restlessness. Going from bed to bed to try and sleep. Can only sleep with head raised. Hard to fall asleep after waking.

Coffea Cruda (Coff)

Key Symptoms: Coffee is well known for producing sleeplessness but because of homeopathy’s ‘like treats like’ effect, it will relieve insomnia when given in crude form. The type of symptoms it relieves are those produced by coffee: sleeplessness from rapid thoughts or an active mind; constant flow of ideas; physical restlessness; nervous energy; excitement. Can also be used to counteract the effects of a caffeinated product that has been taken too close to bed-time.

Supporting Symptoms: Unable to sleep from the excitement of a surprise, good or bad news. Palpitation with sleeplessness, waking with every sound or from frequent starting, sleeplessness from an itching anus.

Gelsemium Sempervirens (Gels)

Key Symptoms: Sleeplessness from anticipatory anxiety. Dull, drowsy mind – hard to think yet difficult to go to sleep. Insomnia from exhaustion. Hard to get fully asleep.

Supporting Symptoms: Yawning with tiredness, sleeplessness with teething, from itching on head, face, neck, and shoulders. Sleeplessness during withdrawal from alcohol.

Ignatia Amara (Ign)

Key Symptoms: Intense, repeated yawning or frequent sighing. Sleeplessness from a recent disappointment or grief.

Supporting Symptoms: Waking easily from sleep or from the jerking of a limb. Itching of arms with yawning. Yawning produces tears in the eyes or threatens to dislocate jaw. Child wakes from sleep with screaming and trembling after being reprimanded before bedtime.

Lycopodium clavatum (Lyc)

Key Symptoms: Waking from hunger – must get up and eat. Restless sleep and anxious dreams with frequent waking. Feeling unrefreshed in morning.

Supporting Symptoms: Unable to get comfortable in any position. Falling asleep late and waking early. Sleepy all day and sleepless at night from an active mind. Children who sleep all day and cry all night. Child wakes terrified with screaming / night terrors.

Nux Vomica (Nux-v)

Key Symptoms: Frequent yawning, irritability from loss of sleep. Falling asleep before normal bedtime and then waking at 3–4am with alert and active mind, falling asleep as daylight approaches only to then wake with difficulty. Feeling tired, weak, and not wanting to get up.

Supporting Symptoms: Sleeplessness from the excessive consumption of coffee, alcohol, or medications. Tendency to lie on back with arms under head. Sleeplessness from mental strain and stress or excessive study. Drowsy after meals an in early evening. Grogginess on waking in morning. Weeping and talking in sleep.

Phosphorus (Phos)

Key Symptoms: Short naps with frequent waking. Frequent waking from feeling too hot. Sleeplessness from excitement or anxiety.

Supporting Symptoms: Sleeplessness in old people. Sleepless before midnight. Sleepy all day, sleepless and restless at night. Sleeplessness with sensation of bubbling in blood.

Sulphur (Sulph)

Key Symptoms: Waking between 2-5am and unable to go back to sleep. Difficulty in falling asleep from itchiness of skin or perspiration. Drowsy by day and sleepless at night.

Supporting Symptoms: Wakes up singing from happy dreams. Waking at night from a rush of blood to the head. Constant flow of thoughts that prevent sleep. Sleep disturbed by headache.

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