Are there any tried and true home remedies for a headache?
I am dying here, and I am out of Advil.
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1. lay down take a nap or just put a water cloth on your head2. Chinese medicine massages
of the forehead
try lookin on youtube!!!
3. I just take a nap it will help
4. a nap
5. Drink a soda with caffeine.That's the pain ingredient in most headache medicine.
Feel better
6. I give my wife a good neck and upper back massage which usually takes it away . . . .I love my wife!
7. sometimes you get bad headaches form being dehydrated, but i dont know of any, i suffer from bad headaches and migranes so i got put on medicine lol, just try drinking water and putting a warm towel on your head and the back of your neck. hope it works for you!
8. Drink some water (with no ice), and lay in a dark room with no noise and try to sleep. If you cant fall asleep take a hot shower with not much light on. Let the water hit your head. Then try to fall asleep again. When you wake up, it should be gone.
9. - meditation
- low lighting
- reduce/eliminate noise
- sip a cup of tea/hot chocolate/warm milk or another hot drink
- lie down or sit in a recliner with your feet elevated to increase blood flow
- drink a glass of water (dehydration that is even slight can cause headaches.)
hope that helps :)
10. Reflexology works with varying degrees of success.
1. Put pressure on the meat between your thumb and index finger by pinching and massaging.
2. Get a golf ball or something similar and put it on the ground, roll it around putting pressure on it with the soles of your feet.
Hope you find your relief.
11. Staring at a computer screen is not one of them.
Try this: drink a tall glass of water, then another glassful.
Relax in a darkened room away from noise. Close your eyes, do not read, watch TV. If you have some quiet music play it, but stay away from anything with a heavy bass line. Place a cool cloth over your eyes. Stay away from strong fragrances. A warm shower can also be soothing.
ON the other hand, other products do have pain reliever in them. If you must, seek out some cold remedy like nyquil; that will make you drowsy but will also numb a headache.
Best solution is knowing the source of the pain and learning to avoid it. And thus not needing advil or other pain relievers.
12. As far as I know there are three distinguished causes for headaches. I'm not particularly scientific but here's what I know.
Firstly, dehydration. This can obviously remedied with an abundance of fluids, preferably water!!
Secondly it is a sign of pain or swelling. The latter being incredibly DANGEROUS.. I can only presume. Mild head pains can be fixed with drugs to intercept the pain messages to your brain.
Finally, STRESS. There are now gels and pads on the market to relieve you from stress headaches which you apply directly to the forehead..
As far as home remedies go for curing headaches, do you mean random stuff lying around the house? Sound dangerous to me. But try mixing two parts terpantine, three parts antifreeze, two and a half parts paint stripper with a dash (and i MEAN a dash!) of propylene glycol - check your mum's draw's kids, it can be found in sexual lubricants.
(for idiots, that was a joke. DON'T DRINK IT! (but you can snort it))
13. pl see what suits you.
If you are in cold country use all warm things.
Pl try cold water bath and observe if in hot country, if pain increases use warm.
If you have cough/cold body hot water bath will help.
Massage and exercise in front of morning sun is good thing, pl try.
Pl try simple acupressure given below for immediate relief.
If it fails you will have to go for Acupuncture.
There is hardly any medicine for H/A OR MIGRAINE. Not only these but for RA, OA, Back ache, Ear ache/ringing, Stomach ache and almost all painful diseases. Hence they become chronic.
Acidity, WORRY, sadness, excessive wind, cold , heat, sour food and sinusitis, constipation, intestinal inflammation; drug side effects, stress, bad smell, TV & COMPUTER SOMETIMES, Blockage in the flow of Vital Energy, BODY CONSTITUTION etc are their causes.
None of them can be treated with medicine.
Our 100% success in treating migraine &H/A confirms it.
Acupuncture is the best treatment.
I can treat it with naturopathy and YOG, but how can you manage pl see.
Pain killers don't treat the pain but we loose the sense of pain for some time; in that duration our body itself treats sometime and credit goes to meds.
The useless drugs have tremendous power of side effects like liver/kidney failures, ulcer, inflammation of intestines and lot more.
Avoid late sleeping if possible; worry, tension, spicy foods, sour fruits, stale bakery foods, SMOKING and alcohole.
Sweet foods, COCOANUT WATER,sweet fruits like dates, milk, rice, SPROUTS, SALADS and good sleep will help if cough is not there.
But you try one herbal remedy- two drops of drumstick leaves' juice in opposite nostril if one side pains and both nostrils if full H/A will give you rescue. Betel leaf helps but it is very strong.
If it is acute pl search a painful point (with round tipped pen/jimmy) 3-6 mm behind your thumb nail and press it, H/A will disappear within 30 seconds.
For forehead/eye pain the points are in front of nails on the finger tips or 3-7 mm below.
It may disappear naturally too.
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