Even amateurs don’t know it.
Having difficulty getting to sleep at the moment or getting a full night’s sleep? Nothing better than a delicious herbal tea made from plants known to help you fall asleep. Among them, valerian, passionflowerchamomile, verbena, lavender or even hawthorn. When choosing your sleep herbal tea, it is important to like its scent and taste in the mouth but also to know how to prepare it correctly.
Often, we go as simple as possible by purchasing plants in the form of sachets sold in supermarkets, but the most effective – as a guarantee of quality – is to buy your plants in bulk and make your own drink. Herbal medicine enthusiasts like to buy their plants in organic stores, stores specializing in the sale of tea and herbal teas or even herbalists to concoct their own preparations.
Herbal medicines are coming back into fashion, as our colleagues from France 3who went to meet the managers of the Notre Dame and Herborus herbalists in the towns of Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais. “I have always wondered about the contents of tea and infusion bags. We don’t really know where the plants come from, it’s a little vague. We offer quality products with a true transparency” says Camille, former pharmaceutical trainer, from Herborus. Besides the love of plants and the satisfaction of preparing your herbal tea, there is also the way you drink it that counts…
As Pierre, co-creator of Herborus, shares: “When you make a medicinal infusion, you should not hesitate to leave it in your mouth before swallowing it, this will allow the virtues of the plant to take effect much longer.” This herbalist’s secret should be kept in mind when drinking your sleep herbal tea to increase your chances of sleeping well. It’s the same thing if you take herbal tea to digest better, to relax or to treat a cold. Whatever the method of taking an infusion, you must always respect the dosage. Plants are not harmless remedies. If in doubt, seek advice from a pharmacist or a specialist in herbal medicine.