This is one of my favorite topics! Wanna know why?Because I've suffered from migraines for 2 years, and my unique position as an herbalist and acupuncturist has allowed me to learn about and experiment with a number of home migraine remedy you may not have heard of.
Chinese herbal medicine is still new and unknown to most westerners. I've found some effective solutions from China that few people know about.
And now I get to share them with you!
On this page, I'm going to talk exclusively about home migraine remedy - if you want to read more about migraine symptoms, causes, and acupuncture, check out my previous articles:
What is a Migraine, anyway? It's more than a headache. It's a neurological configuration - any number of symptoms can show up, and more than one thing can cause it.
It's as if you tend toward this neurological configuration, called migraine - like you're already on
edge of it, and certain things can push you over.
Or, it's like you're filling a water glass, but you can't stop pouring, and it overflows. In this analogy, water is all factors that cause your migraine, and overflow is migraine itself.
How do you stop Migraine tendency? The way to prevent it is to balance imbalances that lead to migraine. Your home migraine remedy should take care of at least one of these imbalances.
I'm going to suggest our basic home migraine remedy, called "Relieve Constraint" that will help with a number of causes of migraine.
Here are major migraine contributors, with at least one home migraine remedy each:
1. Stress and emotional constraint: Relieve Constraint herbal formula
2. Sinus congestion and sinus headaches: Relieve Constraint herbal formula, and possibly a sinus infection home remedy
3. Indigestion and dysbiosis: Relieve Constraint herbal formula, get any complicated or chronic digestive problems diagnosed and treatment by a natural medicine specialist
4. Inflammation: Relieve Constraint herbal formula
5. Neck misalignment and tension headaches (this is your author right here, sitting at a computer): Chiropractic and acupuncture, stress reduction, and Relieve Constraint herbal formula
6. Food allergies: Get good IgG and IgE food allergy tests, make sure you don't also have systemic candida, and avoid/rotate foods you are allergic to.
If you can't afford $100 food allergy test from your alternative medicine provider, you can instead try going 1 month each without wheat, dairy, and yeast. Those are most common offenders. If any of them is involved, you should notice a difference! 7. Irregular eating: Eat more regularly. Identify and deal with hypoglycemia - research shows, and specialists know that hypoglycemia can cause rebound migraines. See below for eating tips.
If you don't have a regular appetite, Relieve Constraint will help somewhat, but you may want to consider medical-quality enzyme supplements. 8. Fatigue or lack of exercise: If exercise makes you worse, then you need strengthening herbs. However, you may have to wait til #1-6 above are better before you can tonify yourself. If exercise makes you better, then you're stagnant. Keep exercising, especially aerobic like basketball, running, or swimming, and take Relieve Constraint.
Dietary Home Migraine Remedy Options: As mentioned in chart, hypoglycemia can lead to rebound migraines. There's some research to back that up - see references at bottom of page.
How to control your hypoglycemia:
* Increase amount of protein in your diet (meat, poultry, fish, nuts, beans) and eat smaller meals more frequently during day to sustain energy. * Never go for more than four or five hours without eating — preferably no more than three hours. * If you sleep in on weekends, but find you wake with beginnings of a migraine, keep a starchy snack by bed. * Eat small, starchy snacks, but not sugary or processed foods, on a regular basis. Crackers, rice, bread, and pasta are all good, as are fruits and nuts. * Many migraine sufferers find that strenuous or prolonged exercise lowers their blood sugar levels and makes them more prone to attacks. Try taking a glucose tablet (or a teaspoon of glucose) before exercising, and a starchy snack within half an hour of finishing. This may help compensate for lost energy. However, once your diet has been corrected, glucose tablets shouldn't be necessary. Not having an appetite is a problem!
