The addiction comes from your body becoming dependent on it for sleep. Like exogenous testosterone, when you start adding it your body stops making its own stuff.
I've never heard of jiagolun it sounds neat I'll have to look it up. Thanks for sharing!
Yes, valerian can be habit forming in the same way that sleeping pills can be for an insomniac, still it's better than pharmas for sleep. Jiaogulan (gynostemma pentaphyllum) is really an interesting herb, it's naturally sweet (like licorice or stevia) and has been suggested as the herb of immortality due to the fact that regions in mountainous china with the highest concentration of supercentenarians (>110 years of age) regularly consume the tea. If you're interested in herbs that reduce the effects of aging, also check out astragalus or mongolian milkvetch (astragalus membranaceous), which reduces the length of telomeres removed during cell replication, which is the process implicated in aging. Sorry if it sounds like I'm dumping all this info on you, this is one of my passions and hobbies
Astragalus is good it's also harder to find recently. Puerh tea is a powerful probiiotic that extends age and health check it out too
Pu-erh is good stuff! but you need to watch out for the cheap chinese imports of it, that taste off, and are probably contaminated
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