Between Methaqualone and Quaalude
During seventies, Quaalude at first was widely used as sleeping pill for insomnia therapy caused by the sedative effects this drug contributed. Too bad Quaalude was then mistreated.
Quaalude was popular among teenagers and labeled as ‘recreational drug’. Quaalude was known as able to increase euphoria, and Quaalude in that time was used commonly during sexual activity.
As the drug abuse reached its peak, it was connected to overdoses, which urged to suicide attempts, injuries, and car accidents. Respiratory arrest, delirium, kidney or liver damage, coma, and death were the other diseases that may appeared .
Methaqualone is the prominent chemical which was needed to make Quaalude. Methaqualone was first developed in India in the 1950s as an anti-malarial drug. By the mid-60s, U.S. doctors began prescribing Quaalude as a non-addictive alternative to barbiturates.
In South Africa, Methaqualone is commonly known as Mandrax, M-pills or buttons, it is not taken orally but is crushed and mixed in a pipe (or in the neck of a broken bottle) with marijuana.
Shame Plant for Asthma and Insomnia
Shame Plant (Mimosa pudica Duchass.) is a very typical plant. We can see it anywhere around us, especially if you live in tropics.
When being touched, Shame Plant will fold the leaves side one into another, shaping like sleeping grass.
The alkaloid, amino acid and saponin in Shame Plant can release or widen the respiratory canal and handling insomnia.
Insomnia :
One piece of shame plant, dried. milled then braise with hot water.
Add black or sweet dill ( 5-7 pcs).
Drink while stil warm
Asthma :
10 grams of dried shame plants herbs, braise with 100 ml water, boiled for 15 minutes. Drink 3 times a day 1-2 tablespoon.
- taken from various sources -
Insomnia : The Cause And The Types
Insomnia is the sleeping trouble that mostly complained about. A research shows that about1/3 adults ever had insomnia every year. Insomnia is much found in those with depression, people in low economic and social life, the divorcee, those with chronic disease, and alcoholic.
Insomnia it self is defined as a perception in which a person feels lack of sleep, or feel the bad quality of sleep it self, though he or she actually has adequate opportunity of sleeping. Insomnia is different from that a person which indeed has a short period of sleeping (short sleepers). Short sleepers may have not long time of sleeping, but they do have a good quality of sleeping, and able to wake up fit by the next morning.
There are four types of insomnia seen from time based ;
Transient Insomnia
this kind of insomnia takes no longer than three weeks, and mostly caused temporary by stress. The patient of transient insomnia commonly have been able to detect it themselves, and do not need a special treatment of doctor or experts
Short-Term Insomnia
This may happen up to 1-6 months. Usually caused by a more persistent cause or stress.
Cyclinal Insomnia ( Recurrent Insomnia)
This type of insomnia is rarely met other than transient insomnia. The condition of cyclinal insomnia is where there imbalance between sleeping and waking. This circumstances can happen for temporer or else for a life time. Physiology change can be the cause of it, like premenstrual cycle, manic depressive, anorexia nervosa, or a certain kind of addiction like drugs, etc.
