Homoeopathic Medicines for sleep related disorders..

Coffea Cruda

Nux Vomica

Avena Sativa




• Avena sativa - Sleeplessness, especially of alcoholics.

• Coca - Useful in a variety of complaints incidental to mountain climbing, such as palpitation, dyspnoea, anxiety and insomnia.
• Coffea cruda- Sleepless, wide-awake condition; impossible to close the eyes; physical excitement through mental exultation. Sleepless, on account mental activity; flow of ideas, with nervous excitability.
• Kali Bromatum - Restlessness and sleeplessness due to worry and grief, loss of property or reputation, from business embarrassments.
• Kali Phosphoricum- Sleeplessness after worry, excitement, business troubles, and from nervous causes generally. Sleeplessness : from excessive mental exertion; after worry over business troubles; from nervous exhaustion; simple painless wakefulness.
• Passiflora Incarnata - Insomnia of infants and the aged, and the mentally worried, and overworked, with tendency to convulsions.

Some More Medicines..

• Absinthium - It corresponds to nervousness, excitement, and sleeplessness in children.
• Acidum Flouricum - Sleeplessness without inclination to sleep; a short sleep suffices and refreshes him.
• Aconitum napellus - Insomnia of the aged. Sleeplessness from anxiety, with constant agitation and tossing.
• Ammonium carbonicum- Sleeplessness, and sleep delayed, esp. after going late to bed. Sleeplessness till 4 a.m., and when falling asleep, perspiration.
• Ammonium muriaticum- Sleeplessness after midnight, from cutting pain in the abdomen, at two a.m.  ; or from sneezing; pain in small of back.
• Anacardium orientale- Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights.
• Arnica montana - Sleepless and restless when overtired.
• Arsenicum album - Sleeplessness, from anguish and restlessness, with tossing about (after midnight).
• Borax - Sleepiness during the day, and sleeplessness at night.
• Cactus grandiflorus- Sleepless on account of pulsation in different parts of body.
• Cadmium sulphuratum - Protracted sleeplessness.
• Camphora - Insomnia, with cold limbs.
• Cannabis indica - Obstinate and intractable forms of insomnia.
• Capsicum annuum - Homesickness, with sleeplessness and disposition to suicide.
• Causticum - Nocturnal sleeplessness, with dry heat, inquietude.
• China - Protracted sleeplessness.
• Chinum arsenicosum - Sleeplessness due to nervous causes.
• Cimicifuga racemosa - Obstinate insomnia. Sleepless, cannot rest, must change position, jerking of limbs.
• Cinnabaris -  Sleepiness in the daytime and sleeplessness at night; unconquerable desire to sleep after dinner, early in the evening (during the day). Nightly sleeplessness, without causing fatigue.
• Colocynth - Sleeplessness following a fit of indigestion.Very wakeful and sleepless.
• Daphne indica - Complete sleeplessness, caused, sometimes, by aching in the bones.
• Ferrium Phosphoricum - Insomnia from hyperaemic conditions.
• Gelsemium - Insomnia from exhaustion; from uncontrollable thinking; tobacco. Sleepless from nervous irritation.
• Hepar sulph - Sleeplessness, caused by a great flow of ideas.
• Hyoscyamus Niger - Retarded sleep, or sleeplessness caused by excessive nervous excitement, or by great anguish, sometimes with convulsions and starts.
• Ignatia amara - Insomnia from grief, cares, with itching of arms and violent yawning.
• Lachesis - Drowsiness and sleeplessness alternately every two days. Sleeplessness, chiefly before midnight, with excessive nervous excitement.
• Ledum palustre - Nocturnal sleeplessness, with restless tossing, jerking, fantastic visions and images on closing eyes.
• Mag phosphoricum - Insomnia from exhaustion or lack of brain nutrition. Insomnia from nervousness and emotions.
• Myrica cerifera - Persistent sleeplessness.
• Natrum muriaticum- Sleepless from grief. Insomnia, with unusual general animation.With sleeplessness, gloomy forebodings, exhaustion after talking, embarrassment of the brain.
• Opium - Sleepy, but cannot sleep, sleeplessness with acuteness of hearing, clock striking and cocks crowing at a great distance keep her awake.
• Phosphorus - Sleeplessness in old people.
• Plantago major - Depression and insomnia of chronic Nicotinism. Insomnia from abdominal trouble.
• Plumbum met - Nocturnal sleeplessness, with abdominal spasms.
• Psorinum- Sleepless from intolerable itching, or frightful dreams of robbers, danger, etc.
• Pulsatilla - Sleepless : for an hour 4 a.m.  ; for several hours; from over-eating.
• Raphanus sativa- Sexual insomnia.
• Sanicula- High fever every night with sleeplessness.
• Secale cornatum - Insomnia with restlessness, fever, anxious dreams. Insomnia of drug and liquor habitudes.
• Selenium- Sleepless until midnight, awakens early and always same hour.
• Senecio aureus -  Nervousness and sleeplessness.
• Silicea- Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head.
• Tabacum - Insomnia with dilated heart, with cold, clammy skin and anxiety.
• Thea Chinensis- Nervous sleeplessness, heart troubles, palpitation, and dyspepsia of old tea-drinkers. Sleepless and restless.
• Thuja- Persistent insomnia.
• Yohimbinum - Sleepless. Thoughts of events of whole past life keep him awake.

Passiflora Incarnata

Gelsemium

REFERENCES

• Allen H.C, Keynotes and characteristics with comparisons of some of the leading remdies [i.e. remedies] of the materia medica with bowel nosodes
• Boericke W., Homoeopathic Materia Medica