How to fall asleep easily.

One of the troubles, that I hear from my athletes is that they have a poor quality of sleep. Since sleep is essential in sports recovery, I decided to write a short article about how easily you can induce sleep.

Athletes often travel to play outside of their hometown and they have troubles falling asleep in a hotel, in a different bed. They often watch Netflix at night or play games. Yes, this is still ongoing issue, and I'm here to tell you, that there is a nice and easy solution that you can do to induce sleep.

There is one herb, that I came across, when I was writing my applications and it is a common herb and not really known as sleep inducer. However, this is one of the qualities of that herb, that it can relax you and make you drowsy, so you can easily fall asleep and wake up refreshed.

This herb is called Sage.

This is a common old-fashioned traditional herb that is used in medicinal healing for centuries. It's easily available in form of a tea. You can even buy fresh sage in your supermarket, and chop it up and make a tea out of it.

Uses of sage in natural medicine:

• Menopausal hot flashes- Sage is used as a cool tea to reduce hot flashes in women, who experience menopause.
• Perspiration – Drinking hot sage tea at at night will make you perspire and can aid in detoxification of your body. Drinking cool sage tea in the evening or during the day will reduce perspiration. So if you suffer from profuse perspiration- drinking sage tea may be something that you can try to decrease sweating. I am not such a huge proponent of this approach, because I think that detoxification is needed for the body to regulate toxin elimination. If you sweat profusely, you might need this cleansing mechanism or try making changes in your diet. It also my show that your electrolytes are out of balance.
• Antimicrobial agent- Sage decoction (that is strong tea) is used often as a gargle in case of tonsillitis or cases of Gram-positive bacteria infection such as Staphylococcus aureus.
• Decreases milk production in lactating women – Due to volatile oils, sage tea is contraindicated in pregnancy, because it contains thujone, one of more potent alkaloids, that can harm developing fetus.

Contraindication of using sage is pregnancy, and lactation.

Sage is common herb in natural healing and its unknown aspect of inducing sleep is not well researched. But when you start drinking tea you will feel drowsy and sleepy within probably 15 minutes. It's worth trying it out and see if it's working for you.

There are some cases that people dread going to sleep, because they know that they will not sleep and will wake up super tired - this needs a different approach.

Please let me know in your comments what other heath issues you want me to address.

Disclaimer. This article is written solely for educational purposes. It should not be construed as medical advice. If you suffer from insomnia or any other related issues please see your medical provider. This article is not replacement for medical visit.