Natural Cures For Anxiety
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You know you’ve been a worrywart all throughout your life, but your uncontrollable worry about everyday things is becoming excessive. This constant worry has started affecting your daily functioning and is slowly, but steadily, growing into an anxiety disorder. Before you succumb to unprovoked panic attacks, do something about it and fast.
Causes and symptoms
Anxiety disorders can result from worrying about job, finances, and health of both self and family. It can also include more mundane issues, like chores, car repairs and being late for appointments. The intensity, duration and frequency of worry are generally disproportionate to the issue and interfere with the sufferer’s performance of tasks and ability to concentrate.
You may display a variety of anxiety symptoms, like sweating, nausea, cold and clammy hands, muscle tension, difficulty swallowing, jumpiness, gastrointestinal discomfort and diarrhea. You may remain irritable and complain of feeling on edge. You may even get tired easily and have trouble sleeping. As your anxiety and stress advances, you may start avoiding situations, places or people to save yourself from feeling anxious. Ultimately, you may fall victim to short, unexplained periods of intense fear or discomfort, called the panic attacks.
Prevention
There are a number of things you can do to prevent anxiety. Some of these are:
a. Exercise, yoga and meditation:
A daily exercise program of at least a half an hour will help in reliving anxiety. By meditating correctly, you can regain mental clarity and may succeed in putting your problems into perspective. Yoga, exercises for the body and mind, can be a good way to help you deal with low moods leading to anxiety.
b. Avoid caffeine:
Drinking caffeine-laden beverage is like pouring gasoline on fire. It’ll not let you sleep and add to your worries.
c. Avoid alcohol:
Don’t get taken in by the idea that alcohol calms. It may seem so at first, but later you’ll feel much more anxious, because of the irritating effect that withdrawal from alcohol has on the brain.
d. Avoid over breathing:
Hyperventilation or over breathing is known to cause anxiety and can leave you feeling light-headed, anxious and depressed, more so, if you breathe with the upper part of the chest rather than the diaphragm. So, the key is conscious breathing is through the abdomen, rather than the chest.
e. Set aside worry time:
Don’t let worries overwhelm you, set aside thirty minutes a day to do nothing but worry! If anxiety starts to creep in at other times, remind yourself to deal with it during your worry time.
Treatment
There is plenty of medication available for anxiety treatment, which can be prescribed by a qualified doctor. But, there is nothing better than trying out the home remedies for anxiety.
Let’s look at these natural cures:
a. Valerian extract:
This herb relieves anxiety, when taken in doses of 50 to 500 mg. It usually works quickly in about thirty minutes and can help you feel more relaxed and less worried. The best part is it’s non-addictive.
b. Passion Flower:
Research has shown that Passion Flower can also help calm your nerves and reduce worry. A few hundred milligrams of Passion Flower extract is enough to provide relief.
c. Green tea extract:
Green tea contains L-theanine, an amino acid that, when extracted and used, has pronounced anti-anxiety effect. In fact, its effectiveness can be compared to some anti-anxiety drugs.
It’s best to prevent anxiety by conscious efforts. However if that fails, go for natural remedies for anxiety. They are effective and with no side effects. Try them and you may find your jumpy self, jumping with glee!
 
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The natural cure I have found for anxiety and use on a regular basis is a good, long run. It’s best to get a run in while the sun is out, so you are increase serotonin two fold.
I guess any cardio would work, but I prefer the outdoors (fresh air) over the gym any day of the week.
Go natural if at ALL possible. I fought severe anxiety and panic attacks for 6 months and what really helped was a natural supplement called Seredyn. It’s available for online purchase. Strong enough and comparable to Paxil. No side effects except a little tiredness and no problems when going off of it. Amazing stuff. I fully recommend.
It seemed weird at first but my yoga class that are 1 1/2 hours long really did amazing things for me. I at first couldn’t settle my nerves at all, but then found that it focus me. It was just amazing, do it for 3 months and see!
I started using Gaba Relaxer by Country Life and it literally works within minutes. If you take two, it is similar to Xanax in how it calms you down naturally. In addition, I do the deep breathing, yoga, and running. The combination has helped me cope with anxiety. I highly recommend you try it, it has literally saved my life.
l-tryptophan an essential amino acid
I need a natural cure for my anxiety. Although I do take green tea tablets….that has not worked as my anxiety started a long while after I started taking them.
I would imagine that the caffine from green tea cancels out the amino acids that calm you???? just a thought.
honestly some pill or herb is not going to get rid of your problems. I know I worry about actually issues in my life. taking a pill isnt going to get me a better job or better friends or a boyfriend. I just suck it up grow a pair and get my stuff done. I take st john wort so i dont get depressed in between but………
i took paxil for a while and it just made me jumpy and extremely moody if i skipped at day, but i still worried about EVERYTHING.
What if you could be allergic to these natural remedies? I am severely allergic to ragweed, how do I know if I am allergic to any of these? I see that Valerian is most popular. But my concern is an allergic reaction.
I’ve had terrible anxiety for years, and it got terrible when dealing with a long distance relationship. I’ve found that a long run is the best fix for anxiety as well as making “rationalization” lists as to why most of the worry is unjustified. I took klonopin for a while, and this helped me at night—by day, however, I think it was best for me to get things out rather then put things in (e.g. talking about it, writing, exercising, meditating, etc.)
Well there are many things you can take for anxiety: saint john’s wort, l-tryptophan, Gaba, but these just cover up the systems. It is needed at times but meditation is the biggest help, followed by yoga, then excersice. When excersicing try running or some sort of sport, but i find weight lifting or bodybuild may make you a little to jumpy. Maybe just me. LAST and most important is that you understand that you and your mind our not the same. Your mind is like a child incapable of relizing what is real and what is irrational. So you have to right down or even say out loud that your fears are unfounded. You control your body and you must also police your random thoughts so that your mind doesn’t become affraid of things that are not rational. If start having panicy thoughts say to your self what are the odds of the elivator getting stuck and even if it does worring will not help. So i have nothing to worry about.
Remember with anxiety you don’t get well untill you realize that you are well. jim traina
chamomile tea is great for anxiety,relax the stomach and body, and to help you sleep.
Please read the book “hope and help for the nerves” by Claire Weekes. You will be surprised how easy it is to cure panic attacks.
I found that taking GABA in comination with vitamin B-6 which helps with uptake to the brain
FIRST thing on an empty stomach really helps.
I also take dance class 2x’s a week. It really doesn’t matter what form of excersize, as long as it works for you.