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Valerian Tea: To ease your anxiety

By Staff

If your are anxiety or sleeplessness, before rushing to a doctor, have few sips of Valerian Tea! Amazingly, you will feel refreshed relaxed. Now let us see what is Valerian?

Valerian is an herb with sedative properties used to ease insomnia and anxiety. Long term use of the herb may have addictive properties.

Valerian roots, either in tea or coffee is an effective herb to release all the stress. Valerian is relaxing and sleep inducing, relieves spasms, calms the digestion, and lowers blood pressure. It is useful for severe insomnia and insomnia accompanied by pain, cramps, intestinal pain, wind, menstrual pain, tension, anxiety, and over-excitability.

Valerian can bring on a restful sleep without morning sleepiness or other side effects or dangers of addiction. Studies have shown that Valerian has an extremely beneficial effect among poor or irregular sleepers, and in people having difficulty falling asleep.
The advantage with Valerian is that it brings the medical effects without any side effects. Biologically known as herbaceous perennial Valeriana officinalis, Valeria grows wild throughout Europe from Spain to Iceland, onto the Crimea, and all the way to northern Asia and into China. Many countries produce the herb commercially.

Like many other stress relaxing medicines, Valerian does not make you feel drowsy or drugged. It just relaxes the joints and muscles. So next time, when your stressed out, think of Valerian Tea, and for sure, few sips will re-energize you.

Story first published: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 12:18 [IST]