Solaray Sleep Blend SP-17

Valerian extract promotes restful sleep. It is also useful for promoting relaxation in persons leading a hectic lifestyle. Valerian standardized extracts are technically and scientifically advanced herbal products. Standardization of an extract assures specific measurable levels of the important compounds that give the products their beneficial activity in the body.

Although Hops have been used for brewing beer for over 1,000 years, their medicinal properties have also been valued from very early times. Hop pickers used to tire easily, apparently as a result of transferring some Hop resin from their hands to their mouths, gaining Hops a reputation as a safe sedative. Later, pillows filled with Hops were used for sleep problems and nervousness.

Experiments have shown that Hops relaxes the smooth muscles and acts as a sedative. It has been used to increase breast milk for irritable infants (and probably pass along its soothing effects).

Studies conducted by Chinese scientists found ginseng possessed anti-aging characteristics because of its ability to remove highly toxic age-causing chemicals from the body. Studies also show ginseng increases immune function.