I recently wrote a blog on one of my favorite herbs for the symptoms of anxiety: wild oats. In that blog, I mentioned trying several different calming herbs, many of which were gentle and some of which were sedating. While oats is a mild choice for anxiety, sometimes we need help with sleep in times of higher stress. The sedative herbs might not get to the underlying reason for the insomnia, but they can be used while simultaneously treating the root cause. Passionflower was a “nervine”  ...