Headache

Headache is one of the most difficult problems of medicine, because there are too many different causes that can cause the same end result - a headache .

Causes of headache

Often the cause of the headache, maybe a viral infection . In some women, the headache occurs during periods that coincide with the onset of the menstrual cycle. Pain can cause increased pressure or an allergic reaction in the sinuses of the head, the so-called sinus headache.

Stress can lead to a similar condition. Sometimes a headache can be a signal about a dangerous condition of blood vessels (aneurysm or blockage), or a beginning brain tumor. If you suffer from a chronic headache caused by known causes, such as allergies, menstrual periods, and many other factors, you should pay attention to food quality and apply biologically active drugs.

Headache arises from the violation of intracranial circulation (for example, with migraine), increased blood pressure, excess or stagnation of blood or, conversely, anemia of the brain, the accumulation of metabolic products in the blood. Recognition and clarification of the cause of the pain is of great importance for the correct choice of treatment and should be performed by a doctor.

Migraine is a very common type of headache . It is characterized by sudden onset of pain, usually covering only one side of the head. The development of a migraine attack is often preceded by a sense of weakness, drowsiness, nausea, flashing "flies" before the eyes. The pain, in this case, develops gradually , is often accompanied by nausea and even vomiting , intolerance to noise, bright light, sharp odors. The duration of the attack varies: from several hours to several days. The cause of migraine attack is a violation of blood circulation in some parts of the brain, most often as a result of a short-term vasospasm that causes an increase in intracranial pressure. Persons suffering from persistent migraine attacks should be supervised, as headaches can also be a sign of a serious brain disease.

To determine the possible cause of the headache will help the article Headache in the Symptoms section.

Treatment of headache

Headache for colds and colds

• If the headache accompanies a cold or runny nose , you can lubricate with menthol oil forehead, whiskey, behind the ears, the back of the head.
• Lubricate the forehead and whiskey with grated lemon pulp and peel. If the headache is accompanied by high fever, the flesh should be slightly warmed up.
• Adjust the flowers of elderberry: 1/2 teaspoon of dried elderberry red flowers pour a glass of boiling water, insist 10-15 minutes and strain. Take 1/2 cup 2 times a day, slowly, in small sips. This recipe also helps with rheumatism , bronchial asthma , colds.

Headache of nervous origin

• With a headache on the nerves of the soil it is very useful to drink fresh guinea-wort juice, there are more fresh strawberry field berries. With periodic severe pain - take fresh juice of black currant (1/4 cup 3 times a day), or raw potatoes (1/4 cup).
• You can try this method: press strongly on the arteries at the temples and hold for 10-15 seconds, then remove your hands sharply - the blood will flow into the head and the pain will subside.
• Infusion of gentian lung: pour 1 cup of boiling water 2 teaspoons of gentian lung, boil for 10 minutes, drink half a cup 3 times a day for 30 minutes before eating.
• Infusion of linden flowers: 2 tablespoons of lime flowers pour 2 glasses of hot water, boil 10 minutes, drink at night for 1-2 glasses. It is a good soothing and analgesic for nervous diseases, headaches, fainting.
• Infusion of primrose. With headaches caused by excessive excitement, this recipe helps: spoon the primrose plants (roots, stems and leaves) with a glass of boiling water, allow to stand for 0.5 hours, cool and strain. Drink 0.5 cup 2 times a day. Has a calming effect on the nervous system.

Headache with migraine

• When migraines, try this tool: pour in a glass egg, pour boiling milk, stir and stir. If you do this for several days, the migraine stops.
• It is recommended to chew the seeds of anise; There are berries cranberries; Lubricate the forehead and whiskey with lemon juice.
• Decoction of rhizomes of valerian: 2 teaspoons per 200 ml, boil for 15 minutes, strain, drink 1 tablespoon 3-4 times daily before meals.
• Cold infusion of sweet clover: 1 tablespoon infuse 4 hours for 200 ml of cold water, and take 50 ml 2-3 times.
• Decoction of tansy flowers: 5 g per 200 ml, boil 15 minutes, take 1 tablespoon 3 times 20 minutes before eating.
• Powder dry chamomile flowers: 0.2 g 2-3 times after meals.
• Infusion of lavender flowers: 3 teaspoons infuse 10 minutes in 400 ml of boiled water, drink during the day.
• Peppermint flavor: 0.5 tablespoons peppermint brew 1 cup boiling water, close the lid and heat in a water bath for 15 minutes, while stirring frequently, to cool at room temperature for 45 minutes. Strain and add the boiled water to the original volume (i.e., up to 1 cup). Take in warm form for 75-100 ml 1-3 times a day for 15 minutes before meals. The infusion should be stored in a cool place for no more than 2 days.
• Collection: a sheet of peppermint, a leaf of rosemary officinalis, roots of spring primrose, rhizome with roots of valerian officinalis, flowers of lavender present are mixed equally. A tablespoon of collection pour a glass of boiling water and insist until it cools. Take 2 glasses of infusion per day with migraines.

Headache from fatigue, stress, overwork

• If the headache is caused by anemia and general weakening of the body (usually the pupil is dilated at the same time, the pulse falls, the forehead suddenly becomes colder), you need to tie your head with a handkerchief and lie down so that the head and legs are on the same level. You can drink strong coffee.
• If severe headaches are caused by fatigue or a stressful condition, try to have a drink in the evening (even better - at night), 1 cup infusion of equal parts of chamomile flowers, mint leaves, fennel fruits and valerian root. 2 tablespoons of this mixture should be brewed 0.5 liters of boiling water and insist during the night in a thermos.
• With headaches from fatigue, it is recommended to take a warm bath or dip your feet on the ankles in hot water and sit for 10-15 minutes. Then take a glass of hot mint infusion (1 teaspoon of herbs for a glass of boiling water).
• Infusion levzeyi safflower: 3 tablespoons chopped rhizomes with roots pour 1 liter of water, infuse 3 hours, strain. Take a tablespoon 3 times a day before eating with headaches, fatigue, bad mood, irritability.

Recipes from severe headaches

• Put a compress of garlic mush on the temples.
• Slowly comb the hair with a wooden comb 7-10 minutes.
• Put the pellet on the fire with an equal amount of water and table vinegar, let it boil. When steam comes, bend over the pelvis and very slowly inhale the steam 15 times. Usually a strong headache stops or, in any case, becomes much weaker.

Headache from concussion

• With concussion it is useful to take flower pollen with vodka tinctures of hawthorn and propolis flowers. Such tinctures can be bought at the pharmacy or prepared independently. To make the tincture mix well 10 tablespoons of vodka and 1 tablespoon of hawthorn flowers. Tincture of propolis is prepared in the same proportion. Then mix both tinctures (in equal amounts) carefully. Take 3 times a day before meals of 30 drops of this mixture with 1/2 teaspoon of pollen. The course of treatment is 1 month.
• After suffering a concussion, this recipe will help: crushed rhizomes of the root of the root, pour vodka in the ratio 1:10, insist 8-10 days, then strain and take 1 teaspoon 3 times a day for 15-20 minutes before meals. Simultaneously with this tincture, you should use 1 / 2-2 / 3 teaspoon of flower pollen 3 times a day.

Headache from high blood pressure

• If the pain is caused by increased pressure, a small handful of red feather onions should be brewed with 3 cups of boiling water, steamed for 1 hour. Sing for 1 glass 3 times a day for an hour before meals.

Recipes from headaches of different origins

Herbs

• Thyme creeping (thyme): 5 g of herbs pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, insist 40 minutes under a lid and filter. Drink no more than 3 tablespoons a day not more than 2-3 times a week as a bactericidal agent that also removes spasm of cerebral vessels.
• Devyasil high: 1 teaspoon of chopped root pour 1 glass of cold water, insist for 10 hours, strain. Take 1/4 cup for half an hour before meals 4 times a day.
• Broth of St. John's wort perfumed: 1 tbsp. Spoon the herbs pour 1 cup of boiling water, boil for 15 minutes, drain. Take 1/4 cup 3 times a day.

• Oregano: to smell the dry pitted leaves and flower tops of the oregano.
  
• Leaves of mother-and-stepmother: 1 tbsp. Spoon dry leaves pour 1 cup boiling water, insist about half an hour. Take 1 tbsp. Spoon 4-6 times a day for an hour before meals.
• Medicinal sparrow: 1 tbsp. Spoon dry powdered grass 1 cup of boiling water, insist for 2 hours, then strain. Take 2 tbsp. Spoon 3-4 times a day.
• Zamaniha high: use a tincture of the rhizome with roots (in a ratio of 1:10). Take 30-40 drops 2-3 times a day.
• Wormwood: spoon a teaspoon of leaves with a glass of boiling water, insist 3-4 hours and strain. Drink 1/3 cup 3 times a day.
• Verbena officinalis: 10 g of leaves are brewed with a glass of boiling water and drink 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day before meals.
• Cinnamon: pour cinnamon with hot water (not boiling water) at the rate of 1/8 tsp of cinnamon per 1 tbsp. Spoon of water. Blend the mixture, insist for half an hour and take 2 sips in an hour. With a severe headache, you can make cinnamon infusion more concentrated. In addition to the broth, you can make a lotion of cinnamon lotion on your head: dipped into an infusion of cloth and attach it to your temples. You can add to the broth one drop of lavender or mint oil. You can make a cream. To do this, you need to grind a powder of cinnamon in butter and cover with this cream the forehead and whiskey, after washing your face with soap and hot water to clear the pores for better absorption of the medicine.

Fees

• Mix equal parts of peppermint, oregano, and kapreya. 1 tbsp. Spoon mixture pour 0.5 liters of boiling water; Wrap and insist for half an hour, then strain. Take 1 / 2-1 glass.
• Take 1 glass of lemon juice, 1 tbsp. A spoonful of mint leaves, common oregano and wild strawberry, 1 glass of water. Mixture of herbs pour hot water, insist for half an hour, strain, cool. Add the juice of the lemon. Take 1 tbsp. Spoon 1 hour after eating.
• Take a peel with 1 lemon, 2 tbsp. Spoons of peppermint leaves, 1 tbsp. Spoon of Valerian officinalis roots and hop cones, 1 glass of water. Stir the mixture with hot water, bring to a boil and keep on low heat for about 3 minutes. Strain. Take inside in a warm form by 1/4 cup 3 times a day.
• Mix the ingredients in the following proportions: thyme (grass) - 30 g, ruta odorous (grass) - 30 g, lemon balm (leaves) - 40 g. A teaspoon of the mixture is poured into a glass of boiling water and insisted until cooled. Drink 1 glass a day.

Compresses, lotions, wipes

• You can tie to the forehead, wrapped in a rag not too thick, but not thin slices of raw potatoes or crushed juniper berries, previously moistened in bread wine (this method is contraindicated in inflammation).
• You can make compresses from a mixture of sour dough, soap, rue and vinegar.
• Take 3 egg whites, mix them a little saffron and, having blended this mixture with a towel, tie it to the forehead.
• Take a fresh lemon, cut from it with a sharp knife from the uppermost crust of the circle, clean it of white matter and attach it to the temples or to both temples with an internal wet side. These circles stick to the body, then under them appear red spots that itch. Pain after a while passes. Lemon circle hold until the headache does not abate altogether.
• Apply in the ear of the area mustard plaster or make a compress of black radish.
• Attach to the temples fresh leaves of lilac, lime or white cabbage. Keep until the pain disappears.
• Dry leaves of peppermint insist on vodka for 8 days (1: 2), then filter and squeeze. This tincture is wiped forehead, whiskey, nape and area behind the ears. You can also apply fresh mint leaves to these places and hold until the pain passes.
• Mix equal parts (20 grams each) of coriander seeds, leaves of lemon balm, leaves of peppermint. The specified amount of raw materials should be infused during a day on a mixture of 100 ml of 96% ethyl alcohol and 20 ml of water, strain and wring out the raw materials. In this tincture, moisten the handkerchief and apply to the temples and the back of the head.

Water procedures

• Take a warm bath or lower your legs to the ankles in hot water for about 10-15 minutes. You can drink a glass of hot peppermint infusion (prepared from the calculation of 1 tsp grass for a glass of boiling water).
• Dip both hands with elbows in very hot water and hold until the headache stops, all the time, pouring hot water as it cools.

Exercises

• To brush the head up and down 2-3 times, then to brush it to the right one, to the left shoulder 2-3 times, then, after loosening all the ligaments of the neck, make the head a circular motion in one and the other direction. This complex to perform several times in a row, and then, if the pain has not subsided, repeat after a while.

Other recipes

• With a light headache, black or green tea, brewed with mint, works well. To drink a glass of such tea in a hot form, and in 10-15 minutes the pain will pass.
• Drink daily on an empty stomach for 1 glass of whey, curdled milk or buttermilk.
• 20 g of propolis diluted in 100 g of alcohol, drip 40 drops of bread and eat.

Diet

It is necessary to plan your diet so as not to overload the stomach. Breakfast can consist of fruits, lunch - from protein foods. Products containing starch, such as bread, whole wheat, cereals, rice or tomatoes, can be eaten for dinner with salads. It is necessary to avoid spices, seasonings, processed foods. Some people get a headache caused by milk and dairy products, chocolate, chicken meat, liver, alcohol.

Lemon is one of the most effective remedies for headaches. Juice a quarter of a lemon squeeze into a cup of tea and drink. This will give immediate relief. Apples are useful, regardless of what caused the headache. With repeated pain, we advise each morning for a week to eat an empty apple on an empty stomach. It is good to have a glass of water before breakfast (in winter - warm, in summer - cold) with a teaspoon of honey, and also an abundant drink throughout the day.