Valerian Root for Anxiety and Sleep + How to Avoid Valerian Root Side Effects
Herbs with Rosalee
Rosalee de la Forêt
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Despite its unusual taste and smell, valerian root is one of the most popular herbs of our time. Valerian root is especially amazing for both anxiety and sleep! In this episode, I’m going to share tips on how best to work with valerian root for anxiety and sleep. And I’m gonna show you how to avoid valerian root side effects. You also have the opportunity to access a free ebook all about valerian.
After listening in, you’ll know:
► Why it’s important to match the herb to the person, rather than the herb to a disease pattern
► Why it’s important to test valerian in small amounts and increase slowly until your desired results are found
► What type of valerian root preparation is often best for long term use
Show snippet:
“Valerian root is powerfully relaxing. It brings deep restful sleep and relieves muscle tension. But! Only to those well suited to this very particular herb.”
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Rosalee is an herbalist and author of the bestselling book Alchemy of Herbs: Transform Everyday Ingredients Into Foods & Remedies That Heal and co-author of the bestselling book Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine. She's a registered herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and teaches many popular online courses. Read about how Rosalee went from having a terminal illness to being a bestselling author in her full story here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Herbs with Rosalie podcast, a show exploring how herbs heal as medicine, |
| 0:10.9 | as food, and through nature connection. I'm your host, Rosalie de la Foray. I'm an herbalist teacher |
| 0:17.1 | and the best-selling author of the books, alchemy of herbs, and wild remedies. |
| 0:22.0 | I created this podcast to share trusted herbal wisdom so that you can get the best results |
| 0:26.5 | when relying on herbs for your health. I love offering up practical knowledge to help you |
| 0:32.3 | dive deeper into the world of medicinal plants and seasonal living. My goal is that you'll walk away from each episode feeling inspired to start working with |
| 0:42.1 | herbs in your everyday life. |
| 0:44.8 | Each episode of the podcast is available on my Herbs with Rosalie YouTube channel, as well as |
| 0:50.3 | your favorite podcast app. |
| 0:52.8 | Transcripts and recipes for each episode can be found at |
| 0:56.0 | Herbs With Rosalie Podcast.com. To get the latest news as well as fun bonuses, be sure to sign up |
| 1:02.8 | for my weekly herbal newsletter. Okay, grab your cup of tea. Let's dive in. Despite its unusual taste and smell, |
| 1:12.6 | Valerian root is one of the most popular herbs of our time. |
| 1:15.6 | Valerian root is especially amazing for both anxiety and sleep. |
| 1:19.6 | In this episode, I'm going to share tips on how best to work with |
| 1:22.6 | Vyrian root for anxiety and sleep. |
| 1:25.6 | And I'm going to show you how to avoid valerian root side effects. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm here in my garden where valerian grows abundantly. I started with one small plant many years ago |
| 1:36.5 | and it has spread here and there which I love. Valerian is a fun plant to grow because it's big, |
| 1:43.2 | it's beautiful and so many pollinators love it. |
| 1:46.8 | I especially love watching the goldenrod spiders on it. |
| 1:50.4 | In addition to being a common garden plant, various valerian species grow wild, too. |
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