Natural relief for migraines?
I have a low grade migraine headache almost daily with a severe one about once a week. I have difficulty with prescription medications. Do you know of any good herbal remedies or natural cures? I’ve tried Feverfew, Peppermint oil, Melatonin and different “Herbal migraine remedy” pills. Any other suggestions?
Thanks for all the answers so far….I do have food triggers that I can avoid….and MSG is one of them. The problem triggers that I can’t avoid are hormonal changes, weather changes and odors (perfume, air fresheners, lysol etc). I need help for the things that are not under my control.
Oh… and I saw a chiroprctor for 6 months last year doing the 3x per week then 2x then one etc. It didn’t help. He was convinced that he could help me but when it didn’t he did some body kinesiolgy tests with different foods and determined it was food related and out of his ability to help me.
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For the low-grade ones, try buying an ice mask.
My GP suggested reading this article and he printed it for me. It works, see URL
Its all about apparent foods triggering migraine in certain people, worth a try?
Avoid MSG (in most processed food, with high amounts are in most junk food) and caffeine and your migraines will probably stop.
chiropractic care. Only had two patients, since I have been in practice, that I could not help.
If you are serious about getting rid of your migraines, try topamax. Its not natural and it has side effects, but its the best migraine prevention medicine there is. I’ve never had a migraine while on this medicine. And before that, only morphine helped with the pain. I only recommend topamax if you get LOTS of migraines and it interferes with your daily life.
Try acupuncture some say it works if not find a dark cool room and sleep it off if possible. Feel Better
A decade ago I translated to Spanish a book coordinated by Adriane Fugh-Berman concerning health remedies for women, I don’t know how far has medicine improved since then.
She mentions several solutions from the simple self acupressure or given by your friend or an expert; the Alexander Technique( AT) for headaches (a session with an instructor did cost $60 dollars per hour in the International Center AT of Massachussets!); aromatherapy (yes, Peppermint oil or Oregano with Lavender oil=Lavandula Officinalis- used in massages with 20 per cent of almonds oil); a saline soution in water for sinus headaches, calcium (magnesium) for migraine (injections too), to the relaxing techniques of China doctors.
There is a quotation taken from another study of Andrew Lockie and Nicola Geddes THE COMPLETE GUIDE OF HOMEOPHATY (no year or publishers mentioned) in which these MDs suggest the natural cure depending on your symptoms. If the migraine is worse on the left side with nausea and pain or vomit extended to the face:
6c of ipecac every 15 minutes for up to ten doses.
If its a blinding, throbbing migraine that begins with numbness and tingling in the lips and tongue with severe pain and pulsating:
6c of nux vomica every hour up to six doses.
If it affects the right eye, usually starting in the morning at the back of the head and spreading to the forehead, the remedy is:
Sanguinaria for headaches taken at the very first sign of an attak, in a dosage of 6c every 15 min. up to ten doses.
Of course, when the case is chronic, the best is to see the physician. But the author says optimistically that you can try meditation as some psychologist recomends with relaxation and yoga, in the thought that your head can be healed precisely by your own head and your positive thinking. Exercise, jogging, swimming seems to help. Hope you understood me and nice to write you.
For a migraine you can try abstaining form coffee and junk foods which are high in sugar. When you feel a headache coming on you can place and ice compress the the back of the next and either go into a dark room and lie down or just place a mask over your face. daily exercise also helps to reduce severity and frequency of attacks. some herbs you could try are: chamomile to soothe the nauseating feeling, lavendar applied to the forehead or temple area to relieve tension etc
There are special mudras in Yoga that can be done, when the energy is blocked going to the head once a migraine is triggered that can releive the pressure.
A student of mine finds that doing the mudra I taught her and a little caffeine helps her when she gets a migraine. She keeps a cola in her fridge and if she is at home at the outset, she drinks 1/2 a glass and it usually stops her migraines, then she does the mudra. If out, she does the mudra, and goes for a tea or coffee or dark chocolate bar.
Hope it works for you too, wish I could show you the mudra. can’t be done with words, has to be shown.
Prescriptions all have side effects! Might be a good idea to see a Naturopathic Dr. rather than to self-medicate.
Blessings,
Rani
I also suffer from migranes.
You need to record the foods you eat, and look for common foods you eat a day or so before you have these migranes.
I found that wheat gluten was a trigger for my migranes; so I stopped eating white bread and started eating whole grain wheat bread, and my number of migranes considerably. I went from having migranes once every 7-10 days to having mogranes once every three or four months.
Now for dealing with the pain of migranesl I concocted the following to knock out the pain.
take a Goody’s powder in water, then eat a Hershey bar and drink a can of coke.
Every single item there has cafeine (all three together has about as much cafeine as two cups of coffee), and by overloading on th cafeine; this will cause your blood vessels to shrink and relieve the pain and pressure in your head.
http://www.neurologyreviews.com/feb04/nr_feb04_foramen.html