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Dream Herbs: A History of Plants and the Sleeping Mind

Humans have always been interested in their dreams, not just in interpreting them after the fact but in cultivating them, in finding ways to make the dream space more accessible, more vivid, more legible. And across cultures that developed this interest, certain...

Passionflower: Beauty, Anxiety, and the Sleep Connection

Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) is one of those herbs that manages to be both visually extraordinary and medicinally significant. The flowers are among the most complex and architecturally remarkable in the plant world: intricate structures that appear almost...

How to Build a Relaxing Bedtime Ritual with Herbs

Sleep is the thing most modern adults are deficient in and the thing most of them have complicated feelings about: the frustration of lying awake, the anxiety about not sleeping, which then makes sleep less likely. An herbal bedtime ritual does not solve all of this,...

Valerian: An Honest Look at the Great Sleep Herb

Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) has been used as a sleep and anxiety herb in European medicine for at least two thousand years. Hippocrates used it. Dioscorides described it in his materia medica. The medieval herbalists relied on it. It is one of the most...

California Poppy: The Gentle Sleep and Anxiety Herb

California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) carries a misconception it has been trying to shake since it first became known in herbal circles outside of its California native range. It is not an opium poppy. It has no opioid compounds and no opioid activity. Its...

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