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What Are The Natural Remedies for Migraines ?

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Several natural remedies and lifestyle modifications may help alleviate migraine symptoms or reduce the frequency and severity of migraine attacks.

Here are some natural remedies for migraines:

1. Stay hydrated: Dehydration can trigger migraines in some individuals, so it’s essential to drink plenty of water throughout the day. Aim to drink at least eight glasses of water per day, and consider carrying a water bottle with you to stay hydrated on the go.
2. Maintain a regular sleep schedule: Establish a consistent sleep schedule by going to bed and waking up at the same time every day, even on weekends. Aim for 7-9 hours of quality sleep per night to help prevent sleep disturbances that can trigger migraines.
3. Manage stress: Stress is a common trigger for migraines, so practicing stress management techniques such as deep breathing exercises, progressive muscle relaxation, mindfulness meditation, yoga, or tai chi can help reduce stress and tension.
4. Exercise regularly: Regular physical activity, such as walking, swimming, cycling, or yoga, can help reduce the frequency and severity of migraines. Aim for at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise most days of the week.
5. Maintain a healthy diet: Eating a balanced diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins can help support overall health and reduce the risk of migraines. Avoiding potential trigger foods such as caffeine, alcohol, chocolate, aged cheeses, and foods containing additives like MSG may also help prevent migraines in some individuals.
6. Practice relaxation techniques: Engage in activities that promote relaxation and reduce muscle tension, such as taking a warm bath, listening to soothing music, or practicing progressive muscle relaxation.
7. Apply cold packs: Applying cold packs or ice packs to the head or neck may help alleviate migraine pain and reduce inflammation. Wrap the cold pack in a towel to protect the skin and apply it to the painful area for 15-20 minutes at a time.
8. Try herbal remedies: Some herbal supplements, such as feverfew, butterbur, and riboflavin (vitamin B2), may help reduce the frequency and severity of migraines in some individuals. However, it’s essential to consult with a healthcare provider before starting any herbal supplements, as they may interact with other medications or have side effects.
9. Get acupuncture: Acupuncture, a traditional Chinese medicine practice that involves inserting thin needles into specific points on the body, may help alleviate migraine symptoms and reduce the frequency of migraine attacks in some individuals.
10. Apply lavender oil: Inhaling lavender essential oil may ease migraine pain. Lavender oil may be inhaled directly or diluted with a carrier oil and applied in small amounts to your temples.
11. Peppermint oil: The chemical menthol found in peppermint oil may help prevent migraine episodes, although there’s a very limited amount of research.
12. Ginger:  is known to ease nausea caused by many conditions, including migraine. It may have pain-relieving benefits for migraine attacks. According to a 2020 review of studies, one randomized controlled study found evidence that ginger may have beneficial activity.
13. Biofeedback: is a relaxation method. It teaches you to control autonomic reactions to stress. During this therapy, electrodes are applied to your skin to monitor physiologic processes that change with stress, such as your heart rate, blood pressure, and muscle tension. During a biofeedback session, you work with a therapist to manage stress using changes in your physiologic processes as feedback.
14. Magnesium: Magnesium deficiency is linked to headaches and migraine. Magnesium oxide supplementation may help prevent migraine with aura. It may also prevent menstrual migraine (hormone headaches).
    

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Answer by Soul Doctor
HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT(s) FOR HEADACHES / MIGRAINES :-

HEADACHE :-
With constant nausea; clean tongue Ipecac 30, 3 hourly

With severe throbbing and rush of blood towards head Belladonna 30, 3 hourly

Due to over eating; stomach disorders; tongue thickly whitish coated; worse bathing specially after river bathing Antim Crud 30 or 200 4 hourly(3 Doses)

Due to exposure to dry, cold wind; sudden with anxiety Aconite Nap.30 or 200, 1/2 hourly (3 Doses)

With watering of eyes and sensitiveness to bright light Euphrasia 30, 3 hourly

Headache; better by bending backwards; due to nerve injury Hypericum 30, 3 hourly

Headache with humming in ears; due to nervous weakness Kali Phos.6X or 30, 3 hourly

Hammering headache; worse during menstrual cycle going in sun; school girls head ache, Natrium Mur.30 or 200, 4 hourly

Headache starts from nape of neck and shift over to the head; patient desires to lie down quietly; better passing urine Gelsemium 30 or 200, 3 hourly

Violent headache due to working under gas light; sun-stroke Glonoine 6X or 30, 2 hourly

Bursting headache; worse by stooping and movements; excessive thirst and constipation Bryonia 30 or 200, 3 hourly (6 Doses)

Nervous headache; after grief, disappointment; worse inhaling smoke Ignatia 200 or 1M, 3 hourly (3 Doses)

Headache; due to sinusitis, pressure and pain at the root of nose Kali Bich 30, 4 hourly

Due to eating rich fatty food, loss of thirst, better in open cold air Pulsatilla 30, 4 hourly

Due to eye strain; disturbances of accommodation of eye sight Ruta Grav 30, 4 hourly

After taking alcoholic drinks; sedentary habits; chilly patient Nux Vomica 30, 4 hourly

Sun headache; aggravation from sun rise to sunset; from cardiac origin Kalmia Lat 30 or 200, 6 hourly

Of school children; crushing headache, pressure on top of head Acid Phos 30, 4 hourly

Headache localized; at the nape of neck; worse by walking and noise Pneumococcin 200, 10 min (3 Doses)

Frontal headache; neuralgic pain above and behind the right eye; heaviness of head. Better by rest, lying down and eating Penicillinum 30 or 200, 10 min (3 Doses)

Headache worse early morning; empty gone sensation at 10 -11 A.M. Sulphur 200 or 1M, weekly (3 Doses)

MIGRAINES :-
From mental work; cold, uncovering head, pressure, sitting upright or sun-stroke Glonoinum 30, 3 hourly

For nervous, gastric, bilious individuals. Migraine due to mental over exertion in teachers and students. Right sided, specially Sunday migraine, blurred vision, hemiopia; blindness; often burning pain in entire gastro-intestinal tract with violent acid vomiting at the height of attack; worse hot weather; spring and fall; better after vomiting or sufficient night sleep Iris V 200 or above, 10 min (3 Doses)

For irritable hypochondriacs of bad temper; choleric, neuropathic; from abuse of alcohol, coffee, spices, tobacco, vexation and worry, mental over exertion, business worries, sexual excesses, sedentary habits, cold dry air and winds Nux Vomica 30 or 200, 4 hourly

For pronounced vasomotor individuals (irritable and full of fear) during pre-climacteric and menopausal stage. Tired expression, head congestion, circumscribed red cheeks; pain above right eye, throbbing, stitching, rhythmic pain, often in every 8 days, early morning, beginning in nape, extending upwards, locating in the region of eye, rising and falling with the sun; sensation of heavy congestion Sanguinaria C 200, 10 min (3 Doses)

For weak, fat and irritable patient; often apathetic, changing moods, strange changes of character (egocentric), memory weak, due to disturbance during climacteric period, results of tobacco abuse. Person with shallow complexion, yellow saddle across the nose; pain located on left temple; throbbing, stitching pains Sepia 200, 10 min (3 Doses)

For neuropathic persons, full of fear caused by noises, change of weather or worms; with face pale, located above left eye; specially left pupil (cilinary neuralgia); sharp, shooting, tearing, stitching, periodical pain from occiput to left eye; slowly rising in intensity with sun. Bile vomiting at the height of attack, slowly improving with setting sun. Feeling as if head were open along sagittal suture Spigelia 200 or 1M, 10 min (3 Doses)

Left sided; worse during and after sleep; before menstruation; heat; during menopause Lachesis 200 or 1M, 10 min (3 Doses)

Intercurrent remedy Bacillinum 200 or 1M, fortnightly (3 Doses) .
Take the remedy which is similar to your symptoms. No side effects or complications if taken as directed, please do not exceed the given dosage and under any circumstances do not try to mix any remedies and avoid Chocolates, Mints, Coffee, Red Meat, Alcoholic and Carbonated drinks, Spicy Rich Food while taking any Homeopathic remedies, and keep the medicines away from direct sunlight, heat strong smells and perfumes and do not store them in a fridge. Homeopathic remedies are availabl