Your picture reminded me to look up something I've got growing in my field. As I recall, my mom gave it to me many years ago, and she got it from someone next-town-over, so I don't know if it's native. I was thinking the other day that it looked like a sedum. Ah, looks like it might be showy stonecrop, Sedum spectabile. But I haven't ever seen it bloom, so perhaps not.
There are two herbs that I like for insomnia: _Stachys officinalis_ (formerly Betonica [heh] officinalis, aka wood betony) and _Passiflora incarnata_ (passionflower). Both work by slowing down that hamster-wheel thought process, and allowing you to focus on one thing at a time (which, if you need sleep, is generally sleep). I like them because they don't actually make me feel groggy or cloudy-headed.
There. Unsolicited advice. Worth every penny! I hope the books are good. I'm working my way through an animal physiology text - something I know very little about. I had no idea, for example, that insects "breath" through little openings connected to tubes that run all through their body, instead of via lungs or gills.
i always like to know what works for other people, it's all interesting and might easily becme useful some day.
though i'm unlikely to take anything unless it becomes unbearable, and insomnia never does, it just becomes really really annoying. i already take so much stuff that i don't want to add unknown interactions into the cocktail. and really -- i can deal, since i don't have a 9-5 job that needs me bright and perky at a certain time a day.
i sorta knew that about insects, because my brain went "oh yeah!" instead of "wow, really?", but i had forgotten. there is so much fascinating biology.
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There are two herbs that I like for insomnia: _Stachys officinalis_ (formerly Betonica [heh] officinalis, aka wood betony) and _Passiflora incarnata_ (passionflower). Both work by slowing down that hamster-wheel thought process, and allowing you to focus on one thing at a time (which, if you need sleep, is generally sleep). I like them because they don't actually make me feel groggy or cloudy-headed.
There. Unsolicited advice. Worth every penny! I hope the books are good. I'm working my way through an animal physiology text - something I know very little about. I had no idea, for example, that insects "breath" through little openings connected to tubes that run all through their body, instead of via lungs or gills.
Re: sedum
though i'm unlikely to take anything unless it becomes unbearable, and insomnia never does, it just becomes really really annoying. i already take so much stuff that i don't want to add unknown interactions into the cocktail. and really -- i can deal, since i don't have a 9-5 job that needs me bright and perky at a certain time a day.
i sorta knew that about insects, because my brain went "oh yeah!" instead of "wow, really?", but i had forgotten. there is so much fascinating biology.