Home remedies · Sleep, nerves & head
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Bedroom at 16 to 19 degrees, genuinely dark, no screen in the last hour.
Body temperature has to fall for sleep to start; a cool room helps. Light in the evening shifts the internal clock later.
It does not replace treatment of sleep apnoea or a persistent sleep disorder.
No restriction. With snoring and breathing pauses the sleep needs investigating, however good the room is.
Get seen at once: the sudden, worst headache of your life, headache with fever and a stiff neck, with weakness, speech or vision trouble. Likewise dizziness with double vision or an unsteady gait. Sleeplessness over weeks with loss of drive is something to discuss, not to endure.