Sarah Plater, from the Kingsmere estate in Bicester, suffered from insomnia for more than a decade before she discovered a “permanent, natural cure” for the condition, reports Oxford Mail.

She said: “Doctors will often prescribe sleeping pills, but that’s a very short-term solution.

“The only way to get rid of your insomnia permanently is to stop caring about whether or not you sleep.

“For an insomniac, that’s a real challenge, because we are obsessed about how little sleep we’re getting.