Home Remedy Headaches

Headaches : Home Remedies suggested by users

Proper Nutrition, Excercise, Positive Thinking

The best way to prevent headaches is to build up physical resistance through proper nutrition, physical exercise and positive thinking. As a first step, the patient should undertake a short fast, and take citrus fruit juices diluted with water every two hours from 8.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. daily. Thereafter, he should plan his diet in such a way as to put the least possible strain on the digestion. Breakfast may consist of fruits, both fresh and dried. Lunch may consist of protein foods. Starchy foods such as wholewheat bread, cereals, rice, or potatoes should be taken at dinner along with raw salads. Spices, condiments, sour buttermilk, and oily foodstuffs should be avoided. Drinking a glass of water (warm water in winter and cool water in summer), mixed with a teaspoon of honey first thing in the morning, is also a good remedy. Copious drinking of water throughout the day is also advised.

Other Headache Remedies

Water Treatment

Other helpful measures in the treatment of headaches are a cleansing enema with water temperature at 37 degree C, a cold throat pack, frequent applications of towels wrung out from very hot water to the back of the neck , a cold compress at 4.4 degree C to 15.6 degree C applied to the head and face, or an alternate spinal compress. Hot fomentations over the abdominal region just before retiring relieve headaches caused by stomach and liver upsets.

Hot Foot Bath

Hot foot baths are also beneficial in the treatment of chronic headaches. The patient should keep his legs in a tub or bucket filled with hot water at a temperature of 40 degree C to 45 degree C for fifteen minutes every night before retiring. This treatment should be continued for two or three weeks.

Yogasanas

Yogic kriyas like jalneti and kunjal; pranayamas like anulomaviloma, shitali and sitkari; and asanas such as uttanpadasana, sarvangasana, paschimottanasana, halasana, and shavasana are also beneficial in the treatment of headaches.

Headaches are a nuicance, but can be taken care of with some simple remedies:

Avoid:
Avoid bright lights, and loud noises or music.

Remedies:
Closing your eyes while slowly breathing in and out, while pinching the skin between your thumb and index (pointer) finger with your other thumb and index finger. Remember, if you dont feel a slight pain or pinch when you do it, it's not doing anything.

Another is to just simply sleep :) It usually relieves itself after a good night's sleep (or nap) unless it's really bad.

Hydrating yourself always helps.

Rub the affected area with slight pressure, constantly, for a few minutes.

Cold showers or hot baths :P

Just relax! Relax and think positive thoughts!

Massage your feet with pressure

Eat an apple. The natural sugars in it help your headache go away. This reigns true for all fruits, so you're not just limited to apples.

Tug on your earlobes. This doesn't usually help me, and leaves me with itchy earlobes afterward but with some other people it works. Maybe it'll work for you. It's worth a shot!

One of my personal favorites is making hot peppermint tea and putting some honey in it. While you're drinking, inhale the minty scent! :)

A moist hot towl around the neck, forehead or back of the head.

Gently pulling your hair at the affected area.


Items that help get rid of headaches:
Peppermint (Oil or otherwise)
Water (cold or hot)
Ice (or anything cold. Chewing ice helps or you can put something cold against the affected area)
Spices
Herbal Teas
Coffee, Soda (If you look at any meds they will most likely contain a high amount of caffiene which is something that helps headaches)
Dark Chocolate


And if all that doesn't work, you can takes some pills or go see a chiropractor, a masseuse, or a doctor! Wishing you the best of luck!

headaches- rubbing your feet, works much better if you have someone else do it but can be done by yourself .. works really well for children .. you have pressure points all over your feet that help with almost any aches or pains ... rub fairly hard and allover not sure of exact points but what does that matter it feels good to have your feet rubbed all over anyway .. enjoy

I sometimes get really bad head-aches and i find that this remedy always works! hold your breath and pinch your nose for as long as you can and then slowly breath out and in, do this a couple of times and the pain should go away! its always worked for me! hope you feel better soon.