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Effects of passionflower herbal tea on sleep quality and quantity

Published: 30 July 2008

Healthy volunteers aged 18 to 35 are being sought to participate in this sleep study. The primary aim is to investigate the effects of passionflower tea on sleep. This will lead to a better understanding of whether passionflower can improve human sleep.

You will undertake the following tasks:

• prepare and drink each of the passionflower tea's (listed with the Therapeutic Goods Administration as a herbal medicine in Australia) and the placebo tea for 7 days, with a one week break in between
• fill in a simple sleep diary
• fill in Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI).

All materials will be provided.

For further information please contact: Alice Ngan
Phone: +61 4 0237 2339
Email: Alice.ngan@med.monash.edu.au

More information is available on the Research Project web page.