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'Sahara' wrote on '04:
My son watched a dvd titled “make your own drugs”. It was different remedies for ailments. Not at all what he was hoping for! 😆 But he brought it to me because there was a guy in England who discovered that hops, used for making beer and ale, can help with insomnia. Back in the day when they were picked by hand there was actually this thing called “hop pickers syndrome” because the pickers were often found asleep under a tree! So this guy did an experiment with 2 insomniacs, filmed them on a typical sleepless night, then again with hops in their pillows. Voila, slept wonderfully.
Okay, so I am willing to try anything. But I am not in England and hops are not abundant in Ontario, except at Brew Your Own establishments. So there I went. They have hops in pellet form and about 15 different varieties. The staff was wonderful. Took me to the back refrigerated room and brought out sample trays for me to sniff and decide which one. I went for the strongest smelling one. None of them smelt very nice, but I thought stronger would be more potent.
I made a little sachet and held it near my nose for 2 hours. Nothing except stink. Next time I tried crushing the pellets, maybe that would release what I needed. Nada. Ah well nothing ventured nothing gained. Anyone else ever tried this? Any success? Man, the things we will do to sleep! 🙂
If you want a similar situation to a hop picker, you should have used “whole” hops or leaf hops.
It's not so much the link between light exposure as it is to the CHANGE in amount of daily light that's the problem. When the delta change is the greatest is my time of sleeping problems.
