Valerian Tea
Jan. 16th, 2026 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootInsomnia has been a real difficulty recently, so I decided to try some Valerian tea from the local herbalists. Tried a cup when I got it yesterday, conked out within 30 minutes. Interesting! Lots of images and faces, surface dreams. Last night I tried again, and it took a while, possibly because of the earlier siesta, though I entered a properly relaxed state very quickly. Sleep, when it came, was very deep and lasted til 9 this morning.
Dreams of a younger person, very devoted, beside me. Baths, people submerging into their baths under the water, cluttered room, a very beautiful combination of black and green around me. This tea also combined Chamomile. The best sleep I had was in Crete, after cups of Chamomile flowerhead tea, but this stuff was sold loose at the old market in Chania. Dude had gone into the hills, gathered it and dried it, there you go. It worked extremely well. Russ buys it here for me and it does work, though nowhere near as effectively.
This tea combines Chamomile with Valerian, and it's good but it feels more... active. Like Chamomile brings you calm sleep, Valerian brings you deep sleep. Also, winter sleep and summer sleep are never the same. Lack of them is, though; you get scratchy and weird and make mistakes. I'll continue to use it but will probably wait until our guests go home on Sunday in case it makes me sleepy throughout the day. They'll be here this evening, one may well be very tired, the other requires delicate handling. Might see if they want to try the tea.
Oh, and the visit to the doctor? Pfff.
Dreams of a younger person, very devoted, beside me. Baths, people submerging into their baths under the water, cluttered room, a very beautiful combination of black and green around me. This tea also combined Chamomile. The best sleep I had was in Crete, after cups of Chamomile flowerhead tea, but this stuff was sold loose at the old market in Chania. Dude had gone into the hills, gathered it and dried it, there you go. It worked extremely well. Russ buys it here for me and it does work, though nowhere near as effectively.
This tea combines Chamomile with Valerian, and it's good but it feels more... active. Like Chamomile brings you calm sleep, Valerian brings you deep sleep. Also, winter sleep and summer sleep are never the same. Lack of them is, though; you get scratchy and weird and make mistakes. I'll continue to use it but will probably wait until our guests go home on Sunday in case it makes me sleepy throughout the day. They'll be here this evening, one may well be very tired, the other requires delicate handling. Might see if they want to try the tea.
Oh, and the visit to the doctor? Pfff.
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