Hey guys, Dr. Axe here, doctor of natural medicine, and founder of draxe.com. Today
I want to talk to you about essential oils for sleep, and essential oils that can help
you get a better night sleep, and even help with things like insomnia. If you're a person
who really at night is looking to relax, and just sleep deeply throughout the entire night,
you're going to want to learn about these specific essential oils.
So there are three main essential oils I'll talk about, and then a few others that can
help support the body in sleep. And those three oils are lavender essential oil, roman
chamomile essential oil, and vetiver essential oil.
Lavender oil is one of the most and popular essential oils. It's been used now for thousands
upon thousands of years. It's referenced in Egyptian medicine, Chinese medicine. It's
also referenced in the Bible, and Jewish medicine. So again, we know lavender oil contains certain
types of compounds that actually help really relax the body. So if you're looking to get
a good night sleep, lavender essential oil is probably the number one essential oil that
can really help your body start to relax and wind down at night. So I recommend lavender.
Number two, probably my favorite essential oil for helping the body relax is roman chamomile.
Now roman chamomile works in a very interesting way to where it not only helps the brain relax,
but it also causes your digestive system to relax. There are studies done on women that
during times of their menstrual cycle, it actually helps with abdominal cramping.
Also studies have been done on patients with IBS syndrome. They found that it helped calm
the digestive track, and reduce symptoms of leaky gut and inflammatory bowel disease.
So chamomile helps relax the brain, but also your muscles and even your organs. So chamomile
essential oil is absolutely incredible, probably my number one essential oil that can help
you sleep at night.
Jumping back to lavender, there's some great studies on that as well. In fact it was shown
to be the number one essential oil for helping people that were struggling with insomnia.
So again, if you're having trouble sleeping at night, doing that combination of lavender,
plus roman chamomile, plus my next oil, vetiver oil.
Now vetiver oil of all oils works most directly on the nervous system. If you're having issues
with your brain constantly going and you can't turn it off, vetiver oil really helps calm
the nerve system. This is why vetiver oil is also very good for those struggling with
neurological conditions, whether it's be dementia, also like ADHD and autism. It really helps
again, calm the body and calm the nerves. So when you think of wanting to calm your
body down, if you're worked up at all, vetiver oil is one of the absolute best oils for that.
So again, if you want to get a good night sleep tonight, number one should be lavender
oil, roman chamomile oil, and then vetiver oil. What I would do is take about two drops
of lavender, two drops of chamomile, one drop of vetiver, and rub that on your neck, and
on your forehead, and sometimes I even take just a little drop, and rub it right below
my nose, so I'm breathing in those vapors.
Now another thing my wife Dr. Chelsea likes to do at night is we actually have a diffuser
by our bed, so she diffuses a blend that goes for about the first three hours of sleeping
of those essential oils. We've absolutely noticed we sleep a lot deeper, we fall asleep
faster by using these essential oils. So again you can simply buy a diffuser on Amazon.com
and have those oils diffusing even while you're sleeping at night.
And then a few other essential oils that can help with sleep, one of my favorites is ylang-ylang.
Ylang-ylang is a floral oil, and it's been shown to be a natural aphrodisiac. It's been
shown to help your body improve your mood, and it's also been shown to help your body
in practicing forgiveness. So if you're a person who, that's part of the reason you're
not sleeping is you're struggling with some sort of emotion bound up inside of you, ylang-ylang
is one of those essential oils that helps your body release those locked up, and bounded
up emotions. So ylang-ylang is great for that.
Two other oils that are also good for releasing tension stress, orange essential oil is fantastic.
In fact in clinical studies at Vanderbilt University it was shown to actually help patients
reduce fear and anxiety. Also vanilla essential oil is another great one. It also was shown
to improve and boost moods.
So again, if you want to get a better night sleep lavender, roman chamomile, and vetiver
essential oil are fantastic, and then adding another essential oil to that like a ylang-ylang
is the ideal combo for you to get a better night sleep.
Hey guys, I hope you've enjoyed this video. By the way if you want to learn more about
essential oils, make sure you subscribe here to the page. I'm always putting up more information
about healing herbs and oils. Also if you go to my website draxe.com, that's D-R-A-X-E.com,
I've got a free essential oils guide that I think you'd absolutely love. It goes over
a bunch of essential oil recipes, how to make your own homemade sleep serum at home that
you can use for a better night sleep.
So again, this has been myself Dr. Josh Axe talking about the best essential oils for
a great night sleep.