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Wild lettuce latex (white liquid released by lettuce, dandelions, and other related plants) contains substances with sedative and pain-relieving effects. It's sometimes called lettuce opium for that reason. Poppy petals also work as a sleeping aid for similar reasons.
My family is from Jalisco and my grandmother told me to put Lettuce in my babies bath water when they weren’t able to sleep. Worked like a charm every time.
I used to wrap my babies is lettuce leaves to bring fevers down. Wished I knew about the lettuce water baths. Green tea is what I used to calm fussiness caused by stomach issues.
@@mary6831u know that olives, nuts, and also mint are booster for the body and mint works like coffee. Doing what she did is an absolute BS and I M angry on the behalf of young girls trusting her!!
She is not using wild lettuce that is ice Berg she is using.... There are 2 wild lettuces one is the Canadian wild lettuce and the other is American wild lettuce both of which have opioid alcalois that calm and reduce pain up to 25 times better than morphine....
@@KyleForehandthat was also in England country side where the Peter Rabbit 🐇 originated from. Beatrix Potter while in the countryside saw the rabbits that she painted in her books. And the "soporific" term that he uses so much while talking about nibbling on them leaves.
@@ridethou Exactly what It says it means, they're not experts in nutrition and the claims the person above has made are not based on the lettuce itself but what happens when stuff like this is fermented into kimchi for example which offers good probiotics.
@@deanj-up you don't know south Korea is close to world leading on electronics and computer chip fabrication? Samsung, sk hynix (computer chip company), LG... 50m population, us around 320m, they're punching well above their weight per person tbf
@@KeananDevonCampbell So you seem polite but surely you see the difference between a people excelling in electronics which they do I mean I love my LG and I dig Samsung Vs a people who excell in food nutrition? The point I was making was about being reductionist about the science of what makes certain foods effective.
Would you mind if I may ask you guys some questions? I'm also a fellow chronic pain warrior btw. But I have next to no knowledge about herbal based treatments. Wat do you usually do/use to ease your pain? I mostly have 24/7 tension type headaches/migraines with pain in de face and jaw.. With a lot of neck and backpain. My feet and hand on only the right side of my body hurts a lot combimed with a cold feeling that can'tbe fixed with heat (nerves?). And I have IBS (Constipation type) I don't know what your story/experience is. But do you thi k you'd have any advice or info for for me? Sorry to bother you with this but thanks so much in advance!
I got think bioavailability. Also the hot water intensifies the effect. For example I can drink a lot of cold brew coffee, but 1-2 cups of hot coffee and I'm lit af @@smokey04200420
@@smokey04200420 the heat/water extraction may be activating some chemicals. Another commenter mentioned the opium in the lettuce, which may be true. "Wild lettuce" is used for pain relief . Check it out on Google
There's a few great books out there. One is called the lost book of Herbal Remedies by Nicole Apelian Ph.D & Claude Davis. Another one is called The Lost Ways by Claude Davis. They contain a lot of Herbal and Plant knowledge. The first book I mentioned has great color photographs of the plants, and herbs. I found these books to be very helpful in finding a lot of plants and herbs in my own neighborhood.
Lettuce contains a substance called lactucarium, which has sedative properties and can make you feel sleepy. It’s similar to opium in structure and may have hypnotic, sleep-inducing effects. This is why a lettuce infusion might help promote sleepiness.
Btw, chamomile tea is a gentle and natural way to promote digestive health and alleviate digestive discomfort which indirectly might help certain individuals fall asleep. While chamomile may have some theoretical mechanisms that could contribute to sleepiness, the evidence for its ability to induce sleepiness is not universally accepted and is limited by a lack of clinical studies.
Im pretty sure chamomile is rhe flower on wild lettuce. I just looked it up n its whats literally covering my whole "lawn" i think i hit the lotto for my pain lol
@@desmonredmond8160ya but camomile is the flower on wild lettuce and prob why its used fir Sleepytime tea. So i imagine the lettuce part works even better
can i ask which ones you take that work good for you? im thinking of trying bc ive been on sleeping meds for around 5 years now and im only 19 i dont wanna be on them for life
I just got mine from Sprouts. You could probably find it at any of those types of health food stores. I personally wasn’t comfortable ordering off of Amazon, solely for the reason of you never know what you’re getting. It’s been years since I’ve needed it though, so I honestly couldn’t tell the brand I found. Wild lettuce - that’s all I remember 😅 Everyone reacts differently, but I hope it works for you. :)
@@m49359 oops, it didn’t tag you in my response. You’re incredibly young to have to use sleep meds. :( I’ve had sleep issues all my life and I’m 42 now. I can definitely empathize to a degree. Reason why I chose the naturopathic route was because sleep meds made me feel awful the next day. And like you, didn’t want become dependent on them. After awhile your body gets used to it and then you’re forced to find something else. Again, I hope it works for you!
@@nic.am.ithank you so much i really appreciate it and it all was very helpful! thank you thats really sweet of you im sorry you deal with the same issue but i appreciate you explaining and trying to help me ur awesome. ill try and figure it out i didnt take them last night and i think im gonna try natural sleep for awhile and go from there thank you again!
This makes sense - i heard that the stemmy parts of iceberg lettuce have anti-depressant qualities and i know that the leaves of wild lettuce have a pain killing, mild nervous system suppressant quality. I also think i remember reading that ibuprofen is based upon the pain-killing compounds found in the roots of wild lettuce. All our pharmaceuticals are copied from nature...
@chazaofworld IDK about iceberg or romaine, but wild lettuce was used for centuries to alleviate pain; essentially, it mimics similar pathways and bondings to pain receptors common to morphine. Wild lettuce grows abundantly in various harsh conditions and is viewed, treated, and killed off as a pesky weed in our lawns and even sidewalk cracks. In any case, modern Western medicine originated directly from the plant medicine and protocols taught by the Natives. Morphine comes from poppy flowers, asprin comes from willow bark, and so on. Pharmaceutical alongside related healthcare and insurance company businesses wouldn't be nearly as profitable without all its originated by plant derived artificial versions. Not to say that all modern medicine is bad, of course not, its science and technology has made amazing positive leaps and life saving advances for humans. And I myself do take prescribed medicication to maintain my Narcolepsy. But, to say that plant medicine (including my own maintenance medication) being the orgins for Pharmaceuticals, or being effective, is just cap, is simply not true.
Pharmaceuticals aren't copied from nature they're inspired by nature and they actually offer opportunities to distill the key ingredient of benefit while increasing the strength of it but keep spreading the all pharmaceuticals are bad myth because it's not like it's not seeing the return of Victorian age illness. 🙄
@@mirafawn1019The subject matter and question at hand is does iceberg lettuce serve as a good sleep aid and the answer is no now it's called respecting the past but embracing the future because yes while there were moments of inspiration there were also moments where people were told to walk in a clockwise circle go to bed and rest a toad on this chest.
My sister-in-law from Mexico used to make lettuce tea for my daughter when she was a baby. It was to calm her down if she was over tired or cranky. I have never heard anyone else refer to lettuce tea and its calming effects.
Okay doctor, just sitting there making facial expressions does nothing for me, and I’m betting that it’s not doing much for anyone else either. Please keep making these videos, but put a commentary from you after the clip. YOU NEED TO SAY SOMETHING!
I think him sharing this and looking happy about what she’s saying is him saying something. It’s his way of telling us he approves what she’s saying. He doesn’t really need to clarify with words that he agrees with her, does he? Also, at the top he added text at the end of the video saying, “It worked. Not cap” 🧢 while he was holding up a blue cap.
@@HappilyAnonymousGirlI couldn’t tell if he was in agreement with her or not. He watches, smirking slightly or gently nodding but, as a doctor, gives no indication if he thinks it’s a good idea or not. They way his reactions don’t fit the narration is unsettling and the look of surprise or impression over the simplest statements is worrying coming from a professional medic. He also looks like that guy from “Hostel”. The first guy with the odd fascination for using surgical tools on his victims…
Wild lettuce works even better and is a common "weed" that grows all over north America. It is part of the dandelion family and has been used for its pain relieving properties for centuries. It has a nickname opiate lettuce and can be steeped as a tea or even concentrated to a syrup and if you dehydrate the syrup you can get a wax tar like substance that you can reconstitute with a 40 proof alcohol making a tincture that has an incredibly long shelf life.
Fun fact: Catnip, also known as Nepeta cataria, which makes cats playful or even aggressive, has the opposite effect on humans. It will make you relaxed and sleepy.
same with valerian! Cats go absolutely insane for that stuff its catnip but even harder stuff - used to relax and help falling asleep in us humans though haha
In Brazil it's a popular tradition to give a bit of lettuce tea to babies, to get them to sleep better. Also, anise seed (finocchio) tea is used for baby colics.
Finoccio is a nice fresh appertife that Italians eat before or after a large meal, to aid in helping digestion. I found I absolutely love it, and it is very refreshing and healing in my stomach.
@@alwaysstraitup I am Brazilian from an Italian family, and I love finocchio since I was a little girl - my uncle planted some in his backyard and I used to chew the fresh seeds right off the plant. Here, we use the seeds to make digestive tea and to add flavor to breads and pastries, and use the bulb to make salads or stews. My favorite way to eat it, though, is the raw bulb and stems - just plucked apart and washed.
for those that do NOT know... this DOES work BUT depends on concentration of it, for instance using hot water and a small amount of lettuce could take 15-30 minutes to work while a larger amount in a BOILING pot will extract more of the chemical and it will only take 10-15 minutes max to knock ya out
That's wild as hell. Im gonna try this. I hate hate taking over the counter sleep aids. Idk I feel like sleep should be natural not drug induced. What sucks is I'm tired as hell but I lay there awake for hours.
@@zarakennedy1413 i would think and i believe so as it has the same princaple as extract any other juice, vitamin, etc from anything else like orange juice, carrots, pinapple etc... no?
Haitian family I knew would put lettuce in their water container and I remember the first time I took a drink an unexpected rush went to my brain and it was the most refreshing invigorating feeling after being outside in the hot sun.
@@denisela3403 the few times I saw them make it, jus lettuce and water. Once I saw lemon juice was added. Sat in the fridge for 24 hrs before drinking.
@@pinkieunchae "And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands"
Cabbage and Brussels sprouts are not in the same family as lettuce. They may share similar chemicals but I’m not sure as I haven’t studied it that much. Either way… I don’t think it is good for your brain to do this.
Yeah. Greens like lettuce 🥬😋 and spinach is full of magnesium calcium and potassium. All these minerals are good for your nervous system. They help you relax. Good healthy foods.
A long time ago, Julia child made iceberg lettuce soup on her cooking show (where Martha Stewart got her foot in the business) and she mentioned that it will make you sleepy. ❤
Great Channel 🙌 I just might try this lettuce tea but gotta go organic with the lettuce. My advice is, and disclaimer, if you are young, this won't ring well with you because well, just wait till you're older, experiencing true burnt-out, fogginess & you'd do anything to just sleep good & catch-up on sleep. Even give up your Latte☕ The advice I have here is for if you sleep a full night of rest like 8 or 10 + hours and you wake up and you still feel sleepy. The oxymoron is that people wake up after sleeping a full night Yet feeling sleepy and reach for a big cup of coffee to get through the day. (I once had this habit & adored coffee immensely) This will catch up with you. Here is how you fix this. Stay off of caffeine 1,000% & do so religiously. This means don't even drink decaffeinated coffees or teas, etc etc & go easy on chocolate which contains caffeine. And I gotta tell you this is FOR LIFE. What happens is, as we go through life, as life is hard & especially if one has experienced trauma, ptsd, birthing children, etc etc. Or also for example, If one has attention deficit, survived stuff, challenged growing up in abuse or fought through diseases and survived. Could mean you went though a long grieving process. Or you are a athlete who has been in competitions for years. Or all the above. Our adrenals start burning out and we are faced with true solid adrenal fatigue/chronic fatigue. If this is you ? First start out by going as long as you have to & sometimes this could take over two years, to just sleep as much as you can, as much as you need to & for as many hours in a day as you can, daily & everyday if possible or when you're able. Do what you have to do as far as going to work & getting your chores done but set everything else aside that is not necessary or detrimental and just sleep sleep sleep. & Sleep some more. Just keep sleeping. This is working for me. I have had relapses where I fell back into adrenal fatigue. But I stick to this method and I make my way back. My own personal situation is that I overcame 50 years of chronic daily headaches. Or basically one long fifty year headache, for real ! I have been doing this recovering method for 7 years and I am making my way back and each year I can tell I turn a corner and get a little bit better. And my brain has healed a little bit more each year. For me, there was a culprit in the food that was causing my headaches. I eliminated the culprit & I do not have headaches anymore. I know that at age 57 I have to keep up with what I'm doing bc at some point, you know I'm getting older. I won't always have all this energy even though it's not the same energy I used to have when I was thirty or forty. Eventually, you will start sleeping really good and get caught up and heal. If you accidentally get some caffeine in your system you are going to be able to see how you are not gonna be able to sleep. You will be able to look back & realize, those times where you had random nights of minor or major insomnia. That was caffeine in your system. But you just thought you were experiencing insomnia, which we think is normal and chalk it up to being randomly expected, but it's not. Also of course, stick to a nighttime routine of taking a hot relaxing bath, getting away from your computer or phone screens an hour before bed, turning down the lights. Or whatever you like to do, to wind down. Much love 👋🏻💞
Turkey actually has less trytophans than many foods the average human being eats on a regular basis, like chicken for example. The aforementioned "sleepiness" that comes from eating a Thanksgiving dinner has more to do with consuming foods that contain a large amount of carbohydrates like mashed potatoes, or biscuits for example. When your body begins to digest those previously mentioned carbohydrates, your body becomes tired while your brain begins to feel drowsiness. Another reason for the well known Thanksgiving nap, often can be attributed to the fact that many people, who have spent the morning, and early afternoon preparing the actual meal, are just generally tired from all the work. That would often explain the reason why after a traditional Thanksgiving meal the adults are usually the ones who are exhausted, while the kids continue playing, and being...well, kids... For the remainder of the afternoon.
It contains a substance called lactucin which is a mild GABAa receptor agonist and will have some of the same effects as benzodiazepines and other GABA agonists.
It's why you shouldn't feed lettuce to rabbits. But the lettuce grown for consumption in stores doesn't have the levels needed as it's been bred out of it. You actually need wild lettuce which has higher Concentrations.
@@Sirusthevirus-ii8ym wild lettuce you can get from health stores as a supplement usually same as valarian root used in herbal sleeping tablets.. Don't expect it to get you high or anything, and make sure to check that it's safe to take herbal supplements. Sometimes drinking a warm glass of milk /malted milk drink like horlicks and eating a banana might be better.
Chamomille tea is brilliant for helping you sleep. Especially three kind blend or Egyptian is best. You can drink it in the day and it will chill you out without "putting you to sleep". It's amazing stuff...
@@shehe2001I don't know if this applies, but heating many kinds of chemicals can alter their potency etc. Lettuce is grown with more pesticides than most other produce, but also often assumed to be eaten raw. Not certain what effect boiling hot water has on all that, but it's not crazy to think it could have some unintended effect. Might be like mainlining pesticides straight to the blood stream, since drinking it is quite a bit different than your stomach acid having a chance to slowly eat away it while you digest.
I haven’t slept in 6 years! My 6 year old and 2 year old still wake during the night. My 6 year old is the worst. She has severe attachment issues and will wrap my hair around her hand, to make sure I don’t move 😂. She also takes FOREVER to go to sleep.
Yep….She is right in Chile they even make lettuce cream and that’s the actual name and for those lips that are cracked and painful due to severe weather lettuce cream works within 10 minutes and if you have dry skin is just awesome and the price $2.50canadian (Edited) 7 days later: Lettuce cream Crema lechuga …this is for anyone that wants to know any
Back in the 60's I had frequent serious nosebleeds - many requiring cauterization and a few ER visits. My blood clotting wasn't normal and I was always anemic but back then no one knew why. I had to eat lettuce to get vitamin K (for faster clotting fine) and drink liquid iron for anemia. After being really sick mostly in my 20's and 30's, my parents took me to the Mayo Clinic, which is where I was diagnosed with Variegate Porphyria (a rare genetic metabolic disorder). Learning about the disease, my weird symptoms finally made sense. So now I take Vitamin K supplements, don't take aspirin (or any other drug with anticoagulant effects). I try to eat red meat a few times a week to get heme iron (plants don't have this type of iron and it's the type I need). I recently found a heme iron supplement and have ordered some. Regarding lettuce and insomnia, I'm game and plan to try it
@@merillo5 I'm so sorry. Are they ok today? I hope so. 🙏🏻 My clotting issues were due to porphyria, apparently. When I was a child there was not much known about it and really not much information even in the late 90's when I was diagnosed. I had a Merck Manual of General Medicine plus information I got from the American Porphyria Foundation but that was about it. Since then I have been able to find lots of information online - a true blessing for me
@user-pu9xo2xu9v I’m not the original person in this thread, but I take Heme-Plex because it’s one of the lowest cost ones that I’ve found and it’s available in a lot of health food stores.
My neighbor grows wild lettuce and I thought it was a joke when she said to try it for pain.. it worked pretty good..I wouldn't say as good as an opiate but it did help.
The warm comfortable water relaxes you, but no matter what you put in it, even the water isn't crossing into your body in a useable way through your skin.
Good one.,.. but doesn't work for everyone. Some people have overstimulation. Sometimes due to stress in life, medications, being pregnant, and just so much more. You know this though.
Lettuce can also be cut up and left in a container in fridge for a few days and then eaten. A narcotic property develops in aging lettuce. I worked at the information desk at a hospital and didnt have time to go to the cafeteria for lunch so i got a salad and cut up fresh pineapple from the machine in the lounge, and snarfed it down went back to work and had all i could do to not fall asleep on the job.😂.
@@chrise1491I love how know it alls like yourself tell us that things do not infact work when you do not, in fact, explain how it does. Whats the point? Be helpful not hateful please.
Has directly to do with how close the variety is to wild lettuce (the active ingredient is lacturnum and similar compounds, just like 12 compounds in black seed oil for other medical use (including thymol, thymoquinone and dithymoquinone more effective against infections then the thymol in thyme)
Apparently the reason why it works is because lettuce contains lactucarium, which has sedative properties and has a similar structure to opium which can make you drowsy. Furthermore, the antioxidants and phytonutrients in lettuce contribute to the drowsy-feeling from those who drink "lettuce water" by calming the nervous system and reducing oxidative stress.
@@NyanyiCsame, I love it on sandwiches for that crunch and prefer it in salads to greens. I hate all the stems, I feel like I'm eating shrubs if it's not iceberg... However, for a Caesar salad, it has to be Romaine.
Romaine is peppery? I can’t agree with that at all, it tastes like chlorophyll, just plant. Arugula is a little peppery. Mustard greens are peppery. Cress is very peppery. Radicchio is even more so, I’d say radicchio and radish greens cross the line into a bit spicy. Romaine is like the second most flavourless green behind iceberg. Spinach and lambs quarters would be behind romaine because they have even more of that chlorophyll taste. You should explore the world of leafy greens. There are so many varieties with so much more flavour and complexity than romaine.
Lex and Clark recently made a podcast breaking down the episodes and moments throughout the series. They also invite former cast members too. I think it is called Talkville
In Latino countries is used as sleeping aid because certain lettuces contain Lactucarium that is a milky fluid that is secreted from the base of the stems of certain lettuce species, most notably Lactuca virosa. It's also known as lettuce opium because of its sedative and analgesic properties, and it may also cause a mild euphoric feeling.
Apparently drinking hot water drinks before bed makes you sleepy. Generally I drink tea of various kinds before bed and they all make me sleepy. Sometimes I drink cinnamon and paprika tea (for sluggish lymph facilitation) it makes me sleepy. The thing that works the most is sometimes I drink coffee (Cuban Expresso kind) before bed and it makes me sleepy. So IMO warm drinks before bed help facilitate sleepiness.
My son has extreme hyperactive add and when he was young coffee and sugar were like a sedative to him, and anything that was supposed to act like sedative just wound him up even more.
Works better if you use Prickly lettuce/ Lactuca Serriola L /opium lettuce. Find it all over growing in the wild... in North America at least. Here in Canada its all over, may even be growing in your yard. Its bitter as hell but great. 😄
Drinking warm water and convincing yourself it makes you sleepy - I think it would work no matter what you put in it. Except caffeine. Well, if you have ADHD, caffeine actually does make you sleepy
Eh only like half the time. Coffee for adhd people quiets the thoughts which can either help you sleep or focus depending on your energy level before having it. But, also, I've tried warm water, warm milk, peppermint, camomile teas, nothing worked, but i always get super sleepy after eating big salads or lots of lettuce so im pretty sure this is legit.
Placibo effect doesn't work on my weird brain. I have many times forgotten taking the sleeping meds, and every time, I kept wondering why I wasn't feeling sleepy yet and fully expected to. Then I find the pills somewhere. How much lettuce should we be using? The peppermint itself relaxes a lot, though. Anyone known which kind of lettuce is best? It must be the terpenes.
@@Arsewell-Foundation placebo and hypnotism are kind of opposites though. Hypnotism only really works when people know are want to be hypnotized, your mind must be open to suggestion. Placebo is the opposite, it can stop working as soon as someone finds out that its the placebo effect, usually. But as long as there's the possibility that it does work, it can for some. If placebo effects worked on you you probably would have no idea.
The lettuce water waybe works but the smell of lavander makes you fall asleep really quickly so for example you can buy lavander oil and you know the air refreshener i dont know how its called when you put a scent in it and water and then you turn it on and theres smoke coming out of it, so instead of putting a normal scent in it put lavander scent or oil that is strong and turnt the air refreshener for the night and you will fall asleep quickly (I went to a plant proffesional once and she told me that lavander makes you sleepy so if you do this you can fall asleep quicker)
Lavender does nothing for me, even if I use the essential oil as a scalp massage and put a few drops directly around my nose, nothing. I lie there wide awake, just enjoying the pretty scent.
@@puri-puri-prisoner lol!!! sop·o·rif·ic adjective tending to induce drowsiness or sleep. "the motion of the train had a somewhat soporific effect" noun a drug or other agent that induces sleep.
@@CriticalMassAwakening ha ha ha😂 thanks for the education. hop•o•rif•ic adjective Tending to induce fervent hopping. "A kick in the shin had a somewhat hoporific effect".
@@raindrops4788 there is no way to completely remove the pesticides from any of the products grown, the "washing" isn't actually washing it, most people think running water on things like lettuce will just rinse away the pesticides, but they don't stop to think about how the pesticides would remain after the plant being watered, or what happens when it rains... If you're boiling lettuce, you're making a cocktail with pesticides...
Lettuce contains a compound called lactucarium, which has a similar structure to opium and some sedative properties. Lettuce also contains minerals like magnesium and potassium, which are known to support healthy sleep patterns. None of which are enough to make you drowsy when it's soaked in hot water....
It's true, my mother used to have lettuce tea when she needed extra help to sleep at night. But only one leaf is enough I think. I had try it myself in the past and I used only one leaf.
That's why you wash it off. It's something that has to do with the lettuce when it's in hot water. If I find the link to where I read it I'll post it under this comment
I'll have to grow some myself and try this out, in australia they heavily spray everything so we need to be very careful of leafy greens and anything that hold lots of water unfortunately
Fun (Odd) Fact: The author Mel Starr has written a series of fiction books about a medieval physician-slash-crime scene investigator named Hugh de Singleton. Whenever Hugh is treating a patient and he wants that patient to rest (sleep), he gives him a liquid concoction containing lettuce seeds. He also warns, though, that you can overdose easily on the lettuce seeds, so you must be careful in how much you prescribe. (If I'm not mistaken, and I likely am, one of Hugh's patients dies, and he is initially accused of killing him with this treatment.)
They sell wild lettuce capsules on Amazon. My first roommate (RIP friend) was a very wise man and he would always tell me about "Opium lettuce" and how it literally grows in the wild and that the Natives use it for pain back in the day. Now they sell the capsules on Amazon and it does work for inflammation to an extent.
A compound called Lactucarium found in lettuce is believed to have sedative effects. However, experts say concentrations of lactucarium in lettuce water are too low to have any real effect. But you do you fam. Might work.
