My girlfriend eats Ibuprofen pills like Pac Man eats little white dots. If there’s anything i’ve learned from her headaches it’s that there is a real need for a natural migraine cure. Some medications put her to sleep for many hours, others make her sick, and some don’t seem to do anything at all. There does not seem to be a silver bullet cure for migraines headaches or any real natural migraine cure, so here’s a list of things that definitely make a difference.
1. Water.
Dehydration is a major trigger for headaches. Coffee, smoking, alcohol, and plain old just not drinking enough water can trigger an intense migraine. Keep yourself hydrated!
2. Chemicals.
Avoid these chemicals: MSG, phenylketoneurics, aspartame, sucralose, and many other chemicals found in just about every processed food product can cause quick reactions. It could also be that your headaches are due to food allergies. Take an inventory of the many manufactured chemicals that are listed on the packages of the food you habitually eat. These definitely could be headache triggers.
3. Stretch.
Regular yoga makes my girlfriend relaxed, happy, calm and lighthearted. This is, in my opinion, probably the best natural migraine cure that truly exists. If you’re not in to doing yoga or don’t understand it, you can at least stretch your body a little more than you normally do and see real results. Stretch your back, your neck, move your shoulders, bend over to stretch your lower back, and generally loosen up all your whole body.
4. Pull your energy downward.
Chinese medicine professes that too much chi accumulated in your head can cause headaches. You can pull your energy downward by focusing on a spot about a foot and half below your feet. With practice, you will learn to move your energy around and direct it out of your head and down into the lower parts of your body.
I’m also a big fan of yogic hand gestures called “mudras”. The “large head” mudra will pull your energy downward automatically. Fold your ring finger into your palm and touch your thumb to your first and middle fingers. Hold this gesture with both hands for 15 or 20 minutes. That’s the large head mudra.
It can work wonders.
5. Hand massage.
Massage the meaty part of your hand between your thumb and forefinger. There is a pressure point located there that is great for headaches and toothaches. If you really work this spot you can actually feel your head pain change gradually.
6. Clean your sinuses.
Drink lemon water, cayenne pepper, and ginger to clear out your sinuses and keep any pressure from building up in your neck and head. This also goes along with keeping yourself hydrated.
7. Apple cider vinegar.
Organic apple cider has a very cleansing affect on you internally. You know how you can clean a dishwasher or a coffee maker by running vinegar through it? The same principle applies here. Drink a mixture of a few tablespoons of apple cider vinegar (Bragg’s brand is the best), hot water, honey, and lemon juice and you will be amazed at the energy and “clean” feeling you will get. This can make you feel a little dehydrated, though, so have some water afterwards.
8. Hot and cold.
A hot bath coupled with ice packs on the throbbing parts of your head can shock your headache away.
Most of you have probably already tried ice packs before, but a bag of frozen vegetables is less messy and will do the trick too.
9. Focus on it.
If pain is a signal and you avoid the message it may intensify to get your attention. Mentally go in to your headache and concentrate on it as much as you can. It will change, I promise. I know it’s weird, but paying real attention to your pain will make it start changing shape and move around. check how you represent the headache to yourself and change its features. make it switch colors, density, shape, volume. This is a big start to seeing that you may have some control over your body and what it does.
10. Big life problem.
My girlfriend swears that she “divorced her migraines” by ending a very unhealthy marriage. And, um, I don’t know what that says about me if she still gets the occasional headache. But it’s still not the same, she says. I’ve heard other people say that the major life issue that was the “pain in the neck” for them was, in retrospect, a main cause of stress and consequently their migraines. Do what you need to do to make your life the way you really want it and see if your internal struggle is manifesting as headaches.
Some claim that the potassium in bananas and coconut oil is a natural migraine cure, and feverfew is also thought to be a natural migraine cure.
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