Although hops may be best known as an ingredients of beer, if you are feeling nervous and sleepless, then perhaps what you need is a hot cup of hops tea, and then to sleep on a hops pillow. Hops is a perennial vine that came by way of China to Europe and America. Its conelike fruit is used for beer making; or chopped, as a nervine tea – or as a pillow stuffing! Such pillows grained popularity after George III of England announced that care of state vanished with a sound night’s sleep on a mound of hops.
The tea, which is quite bitter, is above all esteemed for its sedative and tranquilizing properties. It is also useful in cases of indigestion, neuralgia, and liver ailments. Purportedly it will also help to subdue sexual desire, should that be one of your problems. The tea can be used as a poultice to ease external inflammations, as well. To brew hops tea, steep 1 teaspoon hops in 1 cup boiling water for about 15 minutes.
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