Natural Treatments for Insomnia

There are three Types of insomnia and they are classified according to the length of the problem:

Transient Insomnia.- Lasts less than 1 week, usually just a few days.

Short Term Insomnia.- Lasts someplace from one week to three weeks.

Chronic Insomnia.- Lasts for three weeks or further.

Transient and Short term insomnia have several similar causes and they are:

Short term stressful situations such as being without a job, marriage, divorce and any other problem that might keep your mind very busy to let you fall asleep.

Jetlag or change of work shifts can disturb your sleep clock and keep you from having a good night sleep.

Excessive, piercing and disagreeable noises can disturb your sleep and give you a hard time falling back to sleep.

Several types of sicknesses may prevent your body's ability to fall asleep or to have a uninterrupted night of sleep.

Alcohol, drugs or medication withdrawal could also originate insomnia.

One more cause of transient and short term insomnia is not being able to sleep in high elevation places.

Chronic Insomnia Causes are either psychological or physiological:

The most frequent psychological problems that may lead to insomnia consist of:

Anxiety.- Anxiety is a generalized mood condition that happens devoid of an identifiable triggering stimulus.

Stress.- Stress is a biological term which refers to the consequences of the failure of a person or animal to react properly to emotional or physical threats to the organism.

Schizophrenia.- Psychiatric analysis that describes a mental sickness characterized by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality.

Mania (bipolar disorder).- Serious medical condition characterized by exceptionally elevated mood, energy, unusual thought patterns and occasionally psychosis.

Depression.- Refers to a state of depleted mood and aversion to activity.

Physiological insomnia Causes are:

1. Chronic pain syndromes.

2. Chronic fatigue syndrome.

3. Congestive heart failure.

4. Night time angina (chest pain) from heart disease.

5. Acid reflux disease (GERD).

6. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

7. Nocturnal asthma (asthma with night time breathing symptoms).

8. Obstructive sleep apnea.

9. Degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease (Often insomnia is the deciding factor for nursing home placement.)

10.Brain tumors, strokes, or trauma to the brain.

Any of these conditions need to be treated by a doctor and have to be thought as a priority before trying to treat your insomnia.

There is not such thing as Insomnia remedies, even if there are pills and products that claim to cure insomnia, the truth is that to prevent insomnia you need to take care of the cause and not the actual insomnia. Pills that put you to sleep not only could be extremely addictive but they don't help to cure the causes and in term you still don't sleep properly.

First you have to identify what kind of insomnia you're suffering from and then you need to have the adequate therapy for the cause of it. Since there are several types and causes for insomnia, each cause needs to be treated separately and in term the insomnia will vanish and you can truly get the rest that you require.

Insomnia Therapies