Thread: Herbs for Dream Pillows

I think I'll try this, though not with the herbs themselves because it's strangely impossible to get essential oils in my COUNTRY community.

But I do have an aroma dispenser that I keep near my bed with "potpori (sp)" oils.

I CANNOT handle catnip at all. It gives me a SEVERE headache. Several years ago my youngest son thought he would be cute one day and laid the cats catnip toy beside me when I was napping. I was crazy/mad/sick for the rest of the day.
He recalls the event with greatest humor lol

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

I think I'll try this, though not with the herbs themselves because it's strangely impossible to get essential oils in my COUNTRY community.

But I do have an aroma dispenser that I keep near my bed with "potpori (sp)" oils.

I CANNOT handle catnip at all. It gives me a SEVERE headache. Several years ago my youngest son thought he would be cute one day and laid the cats catnip toy beside me when I was napping. I was crazy/mad/sick for the rest of the day.
He recalls the event with greatest humor lol

Hi Zhaylin,

It MUST be pure essential oils and real dried herbs for dream pillows. Other things like your dispenser use artificial scents, and they don't have the same function or effects at all. They are only intended to scent the air.

Go to <www.mountainroseherbs.com> and ask them to send you a print catalog, and just look around their site. They have all kinds of both scented herbs and essential oils, and they even have dream pillow herbs they've already blended, and lotions and ointments with dream herbs in them. So if you don't want to blend your own, you can try theirs. I like blending my own herbal stuff too, personally. They're a lovely company. Getting one of their packages feels like Christmas! It smells good before you even open it, and even the box is pretty with their mountain logo. Their stuff is also organically grown. I love Mountain Rose Herbs.

Catnip is a mint variety, and shouldn't affect humans negatively. It's generally used for humans as a calming tea. But perhaps you have an allergy to it. I am allergic to chamomile and echinacea, which is of the same family as chamomile. So far, those are the only herbs that give me any problems though.

By the way, if you're in the country, you might consider growing some of them! Then you just hang bunches upside down to dry, and use them to fill your pouches or pillows. Lavender is the best, really. You must have garden centers near you, right? It's a little late to grow anything outside for this season, but you might try something in a pot on the windowsill.