Headache home remedies?
I've been having on-and-off headaches lately, around my temples and at the top of my forehead. What are some ways to get rid of them besides painkillers? Also, if you can, tell me what you think could be causing these.
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1. headaches can be caused by anything. Hormone shifts, stress, tired, dehydration, slept wrong on your neck etc....hot bath always helps me.2. One quick way of getting relief is to push in on your temples and hold the pressure there. The thing that causes headaches is tight or pinched muscles in your back and/or neck. When those muscles get tight the message they send to the brain is so intense that when it does get to the brain all the brain feels is pain. Knowing that this is where they come from is most of the battle to fight them. You release those muscles and the headache will be gone as well. Here is how to release those muscles:
For your neck:
place your hand alongside your head and push your thumb in under your ear and place it on the muscle there. Take your fingers and place them on the back of your neck on the muscles there. Press them together and hold a good amount of pressure on them. Then relax, take a deep breath an happening, the muscle going limp under the pressure. Continue to hold until the entire muscle has gone limp.
Back:
Place your left hand on your left knee. Place your right hand over your left shoulder and with your fingertips find the muscle next to your spine. Press on it and hold. Relax, take a deep breath and exhale and don’t tense up any part of your body. After about 30 seconds there should be a release happening and when it does slowly lower yourself forward onto your right leg. If you can lean over the outside edge of your leg it will be better for your release. Continue holding for a total of one minute. Then release but rest your body there for one minute longer. Then reverse and do the right side.
Do the one for the neck a few times to make sure all the muscles were released and stayed in their new home.
