To ease the headache during a migraine attack it is possible without resorting to ingestion of medicines. The simplest ways to reduce pain are:
- contrast shower of the whole body or head;
- hot foot baths;
- head massage;
- compresses on the forehead.
For the compress you can use cabbage or burdock leaves, as well as broths of herbs: lemon balm, mint, dogrose, oregano, plantain. The onion juice also helps: they should moisten the cotton swab and attach to the ear. The same compress can be put on the forehead, but be careful: the onion can leave a burn, and the smell of its essential oils will surround you for a couple of days.
A good "distracting" vessels means a bath with mustard or mustard powder.
Like any treatment, these folk remedies do not relieve migraines in all patients. If the head still hurts, it is necessary to take medicinal preparations inside.
Healing Herbs
Almost all traditional methods of treating migraines suggest the use of infusions and decoctions of medicinal plants. There are a lot of recipes, but finding one or the other in the pharmacy is not so easy. Consider the most affordable means.
- Calina ordinary. Everyone knows the red berries have a lot of healing properties. The broth is prepared simply: on a water bath you need to heat 25 minutes 2 tbsp. spoonful of bilberry berries, filled with 2 glasses of water. After the hot mixture should leave to infuse for 20 minutes. Strain, you can take 3-4 times a day (1 tablespoon per reception).
- Egg and milk. Fresh (or better - homemade) chicken egg should be broken into a glass and pour boiling milk. With shaking, you get an energy drink that helps with a migraine attack.
- Lime, raspberry, valerian. In two parts of the flowers limes and raspberries are mixed with the root of valerian (1 part); A tablespoon of dry collection is poured with boiling water. After insisting, the broth should be drunk ½ cup 4 times a day.
- Mother and stepmother, oregano, raspberry, linden. A decoction of these ingredients helps prevent a migraine attack. Fruits of raspberries and leaves of mother-and-stepmother (in 2 parts) must be mixed with lime and oregano flowers (1 part), pour boiling water and insist. Take before the attack, and for prevention - every day.
As a relaxing traditional treatment for migraine, you can use infusion from collecting mint leaves and rosemary, lavender flowers and valerian roots. A tablespoon of this collection is poured with boiling water and after insisting take a fragrant gull on 1-2 glasses a day. This folk remedy not only saves from migraines, but also has a relaxing and calming effect on the entire body.
Attention: if the headache attacks are systematic, before treating migraine with folk remedies, a neurologist's consultation is needed - the pain can be a symptom of a serious disease!
How to protect yourself from migraines?
The medical causes of migraine are still a white spot in science. Nevertheless, it is known that the spasm is caused by such factors as:
- stress;
- physical overstrain;
- alcohol consumption;
- the use of hormonal drugs;
- weather change.
In order not to become a victim of migraine, you should take care of yourself from the above factors. Those for whom a headache is a constant companion, it is advised to wear a string of yellow amber on the neck - natural, of course. Also, non-traditional methods of treatment help to overcome migraine, for example - meditation.
Migraine and fridge
Between the diet and the tendency to migraine is a direct link. The headache is provoked by products containing tyramine - primarily, cheeses.
Other products that cause migraine include:
- sweetener aspartame;
- caffeine-containing products;
- chocolate, cocoa;
- yeast products;
- meat and canned fish, by-products;
- smoked and dried fish;
- dairy products;
- alcohol (especially beer, red wine, sherry);
- dates, raisins and other dried fruits.