What is the cause of sleeplessness or insomnia?
Cause of
Insomnia
Q. What is the cause of sleeplessness or insomnia?
A. The disease may be due to too much
blood in the brain, or to irritating poisons in
the blood. The cause must be removed.
Insomnia is usually accompanied by constipation,
and is the natural result
of the absorption of poisonous matter from
the colon. The putrefaction of
undigested remnants of food in the colon gives
rise to the formation of poisons of
various sorts, some of which are capable of
exciting the brain and nerves in such a way
as to give rise to insomnia. It is generally impossible to cure insomnia without relief of accompanying constipation.