Psychoactive Smoking Blends
The use of incense is found throughout the world and is believed to have given rise to the practice of smoking. Psychoactive smoking blends play important roles in shamanic rituals,…
Vervain for Sleep (Verbena officinalis)
Vervain (Verbena officinalis) has no known psychoactive effects, however it is used in Medical Herbalism for various purposes, including as a Sleep Herb. While the majority of Verbena species are…
Passionflower for Sleep & Dreams
Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata), also known as Wild Passion Vine, Apricot Vine, and Maypop, is a plant native to North America, where it was used first by Native American tribes. It…
Lucid Dreaming Therapy for Insomnia (LDTI)
Lucid dreaming enthusiasts have long been searching for a practical application of the phenomenon. Attempts to use lucid dreaming for the treatment of insomnia have been part of this quest.…
Mother Ayahuasca – The Great Medicine of the Amazon
Mother Ayahuasca ("vine of the soul") has been the most important medicine of the Amazonian Indians of South America since pre-Columbian times. Among its many uses: Medical purposes - to…
CBTI (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a psychotherapy-based approach to dealing with health issues that are habit/behavior/cognition-rooted. The goal of CBT is to change the way people think about a real…
Khat – Catha edulis Dreams & Natural Amphetamine
Khat (Catha edulis) is a stimulant or "upper," a substance that wakes one up, but doesn't effect any changes in perception. Long before the first coffee was ever brewed, humans…
Bacopa monnieri Nootropic – Natural “Methylphenidate”
A hypothetical candidate for the original soma plant of the Vedas, Bacopa monnieri (in Sanskrit sarasvati or "that which flows"), is a medicinal and nootropic plant named after Saraswati, the…
Sleep Restriction Therapy for Insomnia
Sleep Restriction Therapy (SRT) is a component of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). As such, it addresses certain aspects of insomnia. In the context of CBT, SRT teams up with other…
Stimulus Control Therapy for Better Sleep
Stimulus Control is a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) component, for the treatment of insomnia. Its main target is the deconstruction of the classical conditioning responses which lead to conditioned arousal.…