Valerian, when it must be used
There Valerian It is an officinal plant commonly used as sedative in inconvenience and sleep disorders, but also in states of agitation due to anxiety and psychological stress (such as nervous asthma, hysteria, excitability, hypochondria, headache and migraine, stomach acidity and gastritis , emotional diarrhea and nervous colitis).
In fact, Valerian can reduce some of these symptoms and you can take the one in tablets, candies, herbal tea, mother tincture (a herbal preparation obtained by maceration of Valerian in water and alcohol, also called “hydroalcohol extract”)).
It can be purchased in the pharmacy, parapharmacy or herbal medicine.
- Supplements, Two administrations per day are recommended for a total of 300-500 mg of extract, for at least a month. If you want to act on sleep, one of the two daily doses must be taken about 30 minutes before bedtime. If it is used to check the anxiety, it can be administered in the morning and late afternoon.
- Tablet, they contain a variable dose between 45 and 300 mg of dry extract. To find out the amount of dry extract by weight, just check the information shown on the package, which can also include advice for hiring.
- Mother tincture bottle, It is generally recommended to take 40 drops.
- In drops, It is suggested in variable doses depending on the problem you want to solve; they can be diluted in water.
Some known side effects are due to excessive and continuous use and they are migraine, insomnia, excitability, bradycardia (decrease in heart rate), increase in pressure.
Who should not take Valerian
In addition, there are some subjects who should not use Valerian as pregnant women or breastfeeds; Not even children under the age of six should use it.
Furthermore, it must not be taken simultaneously with other drugs such as barbiturates, since the risk is to create an excessive state of sedation.