It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
The most powerful soporific is sleep itself.
A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.
There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.