What an odd suggestion, but one tip from the BBC’s piece on how to get to sleep faster, says that eating a lettuce sandwich half an hour before bedtime helps you drop off. Although apparantly there is method in the madness.
Food expert Anne McIntyre says the fresh-cut stem of lettuce is the basis of an old English recipe for curing insomnia.
Specifically, it’s the white latex from the plant’s stem — known as lettuce opium — that does the job, says McIntyre, author of “Simple Home Remedies for Common Ailments” (Gaia Books). She says the substance in the plant’s stem “looks and works the same way as the opium poppy.”
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