Chamomile
cups/day
Daily chamomile tea, usually for about two weeks. It is the tea, not a theanine drink or a valerian mix.
Trials pour a daily chamomile tea for about two weeks and score sleep. A chamomile-plus-theanine drink aimed at menstrual pain, or a multivitamin, is a different mix.
Also called Matricaria chamomilla, chamomile tea, German chamomile.
Connected relationships
MECHANISM+ INCREASES
Randomized trial · Contested
Chamomile→Sleep duration and regularity
Higher Chamomile increases Sleep duration and regularity.
Chang 2016 found that two weeks of chamomile tea lowered a physical-symptoms sleep-inefficiency score versus usual care in 80 Taiwanese postnatal women with poor sleep (P=0.015). The difference was gone two weeks after the tea stopped. There was no placebo drink.