Sleep is an integral component of human existence, such that without sleep, you eventually die. There isn’t a whole lot that people understand about how sleep works, or how it manages to do what it does for the body. Humans simply have an instinctive understanding that sleep is an important part of their lives and it just isn’t a good idea to cut down on it so much. However, trouble getting enough sleep is a problem that is becoming increasingly common in the modern world, as shown by the statistics of how many people are buying sleeping pills. This is, of course, far from being a recent problem. On the contrary, people have been using natural sleeping aids for centuries, because getting enough sleep has apparently been a problem for people for just as long.
Most natural sleeping aids, of course, are of the herbal variety. This is understandable, as they are likely to be more easily available and the source is unlikely to bite back while someone is trying to harvest the necessary ingredient. There are modern drugs that can do the job just as well as their ancient, herbal counterparts, but they have been known to cause some side effects. Besides, with going...