These are supplements that can be purchased at health food and other stores, that can be purchased online and that do not have the drug dependency that prescription medications can have associated with them. They are also remedies that have been used all throughout history for treating conditions such as sleep disorders, and include things like melatonin.

This is the types of sleep aids that will also be recommended by alternative treatment physicians, and do not have many of the side effects of prescription medications, like dizziness, daytime drowsiness and other effects of the sleep drugs. Along with less chance of side effects there is also the person with sleep disorder that has bad reactions to some medications and this usually is not a problem with herbal treatments. This is because they can include things like chamomile, which is used in calming teas and melatonin, which is something the body makes in the brain naturally.