Sex to replace sleeping pills?
NZPA-Reuter London Sex or a dull book can help insomniacs to get to sleep without drugs, British doctors have been told.
“A relaxing bath, a dull book or sexual intercourse facilitate sleep,” the National Consumer Council (N.C.C.) said in a bulletin entitled "Drugs and Therapeutics” giving doctors advice on what to tell patients used to tranquillisers or sleeping pills. “Anything warm and comforting can help,” said the bulletin’s editor, Dr Andrew Herxheimer, of London.
Not just anything, though, as he hastened to say. “A warm drink can help but we cannot recommend a Scotch br a tot of rum. It keeps as many people awake as it sends to sleep,” he said. Three-quarters of the millions of Britons regularly taking pills to combat stress and sleeplessness could be weaned off them, according to the bulletin.
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