natural remedies to help with anxiety

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can anyone recommend any?

I cut out booze and caffeine some time ago and I exercise daily but my anxiety seems to be horrible right now. I am up for something natural if it helps

Chamomile tea. Also if you get some bottled lavender and sprinkle some on your pillow case it can help you sleep better.

valeriana before going to sleep, lemon balm tea and also warm bath with essential oils and magnesium salt is amazing

candles (the non articifial kinds tho) instead of bright light - especially in the evening - is v calming.

peaceful music - jazz/ harp/ piano...

hope that helps

I make a tincture of St. John's Wort and have been taking it twice daily for over a year. I believe it helps. There was a study done which showed that it was as effective as anti anxiety meds.

I buy dry organic, then powder it in my blender. Then soak it in organic vodka in glass jars for months. Strain with an unbleached paper coffee filter into a glass jar. 2.5 eye droppers in water morning and night

A weighted blanket.

This might not qualify
as natural,
but it's not chemical.

Got mine
soon after my diagnosis.
Sleep thru the night
most nights now.

Not relating to nights and sleep,
I've gotten help for years
in keeping the door
shut on anxiety
from acupuncture.

I’ve found the audiobook Free Yourself from Anxiety: A Mind-Body Prescription by Erin Olivo helpful. You might also want to include meditation in your daily routine.

You could try Hyland's Nerve Tonic. It helps my girlfriend alittle with stress & anxiety thou she also takes prescribed meds. Here's a link to it off Amazon. I ordered more for her alittle while ago before I read this post because she's really low on it https://smile.amazon.com/Hylands-Stress ... onic&psc=1

Be careful with St. John's Wort - it can increase the risk of cataracts in susceptible people. To reduce that risk, and this is *not* a joke, try eating pumpkin (the canned, precooked stuff is really nice if you season it with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and a dash of clove, and eat it warm with a little butter). The orange pigments in the pumpkin are antioxidants and seem to be quite effective in protecting the lens of the eye.

This all comes, by the way, from direct personal experience - a little over a year on SJW, then noticed clouding of lenses and began to panic. Most aldose reductase blockers have unpleasant side effects (that's the most effective orally dosed protectant against cataracts - known so far) but the carotenoids in pumpkin flesh don't seem to. PS, carrots do help, but there's a wider range of pigments in pumpkin. Also PS, I can now look directly at illuminated fluorescent lights and see no haze whatsoever, whereas a year ago they were shrouded in fog due to lens clouding.

Anecdotal, but the thing is: a statistically significant dataset is simply a meta-anecdote with a consensus.

I tried St. John's Wort before & it made me more moody.

Hi nick!

Oh yeah, it can do that. Its dose-response curve is a nightmare, its effects can be extremely variable, and what's worse, if you need a high dose for efficacy, it's just as hard to discontinue as many of the Rx meds are. I had to taper... [i]then[/] I noticed that all the streetlights had halos. And I am a very cautious beast and was taking it only once every other day!

But it does work for some folks. So it's good to know what it might do that you don't want, and how to prevent that if you can...

i'll have to try!! ! i spend too much time in front of my laptop > <

I sometimes drink passion flower tea. It comes in droplets and pills as well. It really calms my nerves.

I almost don't want to say this, but most natural remedies are just placebos. Still, whatever works for you. CBT is a good way to go if you can access it. Mindfulness also (really the same thing). If you haven't seen this website, it's very usefulGet Self Help

^ like aspirin (from willow tree bark),
quinine (from cinchona tree bark),
antibiotics such as streptomycin, vancomycin, aureomycin, erythromycin, lincomycin, and clindamycin - among many (derived mainly from various soil bacteria),
the antifungal Amphotericin B and its relatives (derived from bacteria as well),
vinblastine, vinorelbine, vincristine, and vindesine (anticancer drugs from the ground cover plant Vinca major),
taxol (anticancer drug derived from the Pacific yew),
and the cyclosporine immunosuppressant/transplant drugs (derived from soil fungus)?

(and many more)

No placebos there.

Sorry - I trained as a PhD chemist/biochemist, even if I haven't been at the lab bench for 30+ years at this point. Just because the principal active compound hasn't yet been isolated or independently synthesized doesn't mean it isn't there and doesn't work.

I don't mean to be harsh, but I don't like seeing what's quite often "applied pharmacognosy" dismissed as "woo" when natural products chemistry in the lab has proven many times that it's more like "wow".

And yes, I know there are hoaxes, and wishful thinking, and I'm well aware that the placebo effect is real. It confounded the study of major antidepressants for many years - largely because the big pharma houses were too timid to do more than modify their existing molecules when looking for new ones.

Not trying to bash you, honestly. But people on fixed incomes, and disabled people especially, do need to know that there are *some* natural remedies that are not only affordable and accessible, they actually work.

Oh, as a PS - garlic contains compounds that make it an anticoagulant, and a very effective one; the omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil are also known for this. Conventional physicians now specifically warn patients to stop taking these prior to surgery or in the final trimester of pregnancy, to prevent complications.

Have a look at the amino acid L-Theanine.

Sometimes it is formulated with melatonin added and this can be very effective.

You can buy these over the counter or online.

It may also surprise some that for some people, nicotine patches can be used as these have the effect of improving focus, concentration and cognition, and those three factors can be disrupted by anxiety. If you choose to trial this, go with the lowest dose available.

All three can be used together.

I guess I should also add Goji berries are pretty healthy - contain good amounts of melatonin - i eat them with yoghurt n honey or as juice for sleeping aid ~