Take a holistic approach to your headache. Step back and look at the past 24 hours of your life. Have you eaten sensibly? Did you get a decent night's sleep? Have you moved your bowels since waking up this morning? Are there deadlines you need to meet? Do you have added pressures at home or at work? Is there something you're dreading?
Now that you probably realize the reason for your headache, what should you take for it? Don't refuse any offer.
Studies show that more than 90% of headaches are brought on by nervous tension, so most of our remedies are for the common tension headache. Only a few are for the more serious migraines.
WARNING : In the case of regularly recurring headaches, they can be caused by eyestrain, an allergy or something more serious. You should seek professional medical attention, especially if the headache comes on suddenly or is accompanied by a fever.
Natural home remedies
Headaches are such a headache! Use your instincts, common sense and patience to find which one of these remedies works best for you and your headache.
Research scientists tell us that almonds contain salicylates, the pain-relieving ingredient in aspirin. Eat 15 raw almonds to do the work of one aspirin. While it may take a little longer for the headache to vanish, you won't run the risk of side effects. (What the scientists need to find now are fast-acting almonds.)
Apply a paste of freshly ground clay or freshly ground sandalwood to the forehead, let dry, rub off by hand and wash.
Apply a paste of one part ground cinnamon and one part water to the forehead to relieve headaches from cold air.
Get a little bottle of essence of rosemary and rub a small amount of the oil on your forehead and temples, and also behind your ears. Then inhale the fumes from the open bottle four times. If your headache doesn't disappear within a half-hour, repeat the rubbing and inhaling once more.
For headaches, eat a banana every time the linger headaches appear.
B6 or B complex vitamins can prevent headaches or lessen their severity
Relief from the East
This remedy seems to be a favorite of some Indian gurus. In a small pot, combine 1 teaspoon of dried basil with 1 cup of hot water, and bring it to a boil. Take it off the stove, then add 2 tablespoons of witch hazel. Let it cool, then saturate a washcloth with the mixture, wring it out and apply it to the forehead. Bandage it in place and keep it there until the washcloth dries or your headache disappears, whichever comes first.
This will either work for you-or it won't. You'll find out quickly and easily. Dunk your hands into water that's as hot as you can stand without scalding yourself. Keep them there for one minute. If you don't start feeling relief within 15 minutes, try another remedy.
If your tension headache seems to stem from the tightness in your neck, use an electric heating pad or a very warm, wet cloth around your neck. The heat should relax you and improve circulation.
Pass the Mint
If you have fresh mint, take a large mint leaf, bruise it, then roll it up and stick it in your nostril. (It is not a pretty picture.)
A Mexican folk remedy says to paste a fresh mint leaf on the part of the head where the pain is most severe.
In England, the mint leaf is juiced and the juice is used as eardrops to relieve a headache.
Mr. Potato Head
Grate a potato (a red one if possible) or an apple, and make a poultice out of it. Apply the poultice to your forehead and bandage it in place, keeping it there for at least an hour.
Bite Your Tongue-Really!
You might want to try some acupressure to get rid of that headache. Stick out your tongue about ½ inch and bite down on it as hard as you can without hurting yourself. Stay that way for exactly 10 minutes-not a minute more!
Some people rid themselves of headache pain by taking vitamin C-500 mg every hour -to dilate the constricted blood vessels that are thought to cause the pain.
If, after a few hours, you still have a headache, then stop taking vitamin C and try another remedy.
Add ½ teaspoon of angelica (available at health food stores) to ¾ cup of hot water and drink. It not only helps ease the pain of a headache, but it is said to give a person a lighter, happier feeling.
In Jamaica, a popular headache remedy uses the leaf of an aloe vera plant. Carefully cut it in half the long way, and place the gel side on your forehead and temples. Keep it in place with a handkerchief or bandage and let it stay there until your headache is gone.
Niacin capsules have helped many headache sufferers when all else has failed
V Is for Vinegar
When our grandmother had a headache, she would dip a large white handkerchief in vinegar, wring it out and tie it tightly around her forehead until the headache disappeared.
A variation of soaking a handkerchief in vinegar is to soak a piece of brown grocery-bag paper in vinegar. Shake off the excess liquid and place it on your forehead. Tie it in place and keep it there for at least 30 minutes.
Peel the rind off a lemon. Make the pieces as wide as possible. Rub the rind (the inside of the skin should touch your skin) on your forehead and temples. Then place the pieces of rind on the forehead and temples, securing them with a scarf or bandage. Keep it there until the headache goes away, usually within a half-hour.
Take a Walk
Let ice-cold water accumulate in the bathtub until it's ankle-high. Dress warmly except for your bare feet. Take a leisurely stroll in the tub-from one to three minutes-as long as it takes for your feet to start feeling warm in the ice-cold water. When that happens, get out of the tub, dry your feet and go directly to bed. Cover up, relax and within no time, your headache should be a pain of the past.
Press your thumb against the roof of your mouth for four to five minutes. Every so often, move your thumb to another section of the roof of your mouth. The nerve pressure in your head should be greatly relieved. While this remedy is highly impractical during a speaking engagement, it's worth a try in the privacy of your home.
Getting Steamy
Mix a cup of water with a cup of apple cider vinegar and bring it to a slow boil in a mediumsized pot. When the fumes begin to rise, reduce the heat as low as possible. Put a towel over your head and bend over the pot.
Inhale and exhale deeply through your nose about 80 times or for about 10 minutes. Be very careful-steam can burn if you get too close. And make sure you hold the towel so that it catches the vapor for you to inhale, but that it doesn't catch fire.
If strawberries are in season, eat a few. They contain organic salicylates, which are related to the active ingredients in aspirin.
Vigorously rub the second joint of each thumb-two minutes on the right hand, two minutes on the left hand-until you've done it five times each, or for 10 minutes. Use hand lotion on the thumbs to eliminate friction.
A very old American remedy is to swallow a teaspoon of honey mixed with ½ teaspoon of garlic juice.
WARNING: Diabetics and people with honey allergies should not try the honey remedy.
Enlist the help of someone who will slowly move his/her thumb down the right side of your back, alongside your shoulder blade and toward your waist. Let that person know when he hits a sore or tender spot. Have your helper exert steady pressure on that spot for a minute. This should bring relief from the headache.
CAUTION: See your doctor immediately if your headache is worse or "different" than usual... comes on rapidly and severely...first occurs after age 50.. .and/or is accompanied by neurological symptoms, such as paralysis, slurred speech or loss of consciousness. These symptoms may indicate an aneurysm, brain tumor, stroke or some other serious problem.
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Herbal Home Remedies For Hay Fever Relief Post By Thomas Husnik
Hay fever is the name given to pollen allergy. Other terms for hay fever include "seasonal allergic rhinitis" or "pollinosis." If you have hay fever, you are not alone. An estimated 26.1 million Americans have hay fever symptoms each year. 14.6 million Americans have asthma, which can often accompany hay fever.
Herbal home remedies for hay fever
Several studies have shown that bioflavonoids-substances from plants that help maintain cellular health-help the body utilize vitamin C more effectively.
After the morning and evening meals, take one pantothenic acid tablet (50 milligrams [mg]) and one vitamin C tablet (500 mg) along with a bioflavonoid-a grapefruit, orange, a few strawberries, grapes or prunes. If you don't want the whole fruit, take a teaspoon of grated orange or lemon peel sweetened with a little honey. This remedy has been said to have brought relief to many hay fever sufferers.
To subdue the symptoms of hay fever, folk medicine practitioners often suggest that their patients smoke coffee grounds in a pipe and inhale the smoke.
To relieve hay fever, mince the peels and white inner rinds of grapefruits and lemons (preferably organic) and simmer them with a small amount of water in a covered pot for about 10 minutes. Sweeten the mixture with honey, if you like, and eat one teaspoon three times a day.
Steep 1 tsp. fenugreek seed in 1 cup water, covered, for 10 minutes. Drink 1 cup a day to help hay fever symptoms.
Hay Fever Prevention
The US Army tested honeycomb as a desensitizing and antiallergenic substance for hay fever. Their results were very encouraging, especially those from subjects who chewed the honeycomb.
Start this regime about two months before hay fever season. By the time the season rolls around, the honeycomb may have helped you build an immunity to the pollen in your area. (You can also chew a bite-sized chunk of honeycomb at the stan of a hay fever attack.)
It's important to find a beekeeper in your vicinity and get local honeycomb. For prevention, chew a 1-inch square of it twice a day. The honey is delicious, and the comb pan turns into a ball of wax. Chew the wax for about 10 to 15 minutes, then spit it out.
If you don't have access to a local bee¬keeper, look for honeycomb at your neighbor¬hood health food store. Hopefully, it's from your neck of the woods.
CAUTION: People who are allergic to bee stings or honey should consult a doctor before chewing honeycomb.
Starting three months before hay fever sea¬ son, drink 1 cup of fenugreek-seed tea each day. The tea is available at health food stores. This remedy goes back to the ancient Egyptians and forward to Armenian mountaineers who drink 1 cup of fenugreek tea before each meal to clear and stimulate their senses of smell and taste.
Herbal home remedies for hay fever
Several studies have shown that bioflavonoids-substances from plants that help maintain cellular health-help the body utilize vitamin C more effectively.
After the morning and evening meals, take one pantothenic acid tablet (50 milligrams [mg]) and one vitamin C tablet (500 mg) along with a bioflavonoid-a grapefruit, orange, a few strawberries, grapes or prunes. If you don't want the whole fruit, take a teaspoon of grated orange or lemon peel sweetened with a little honey. This remedy has been said to have brought relief to many hay fever sufferers.
To subdue the symptoms of hay fever, folk medicine practitioners often suggest that their patients smoke coffee grounds in a pipe and inhale the smoke.
To relieve hay fever, mince the peels and white inner rinds of grapefruits and lemons (preferably organic) and simmer them with a small amount of water in a covered pot for about 10 minutes. Sweeten the mixture with honey, if you like, and eat one teaspoon three times a day.
Steep 1 tsp. fenugreek seed in 1 cup water, covered, for 10 minutes. Drink 1 cup a day to help hay fever symptoms.
Hay Fever Prevention
The US Army tested honeycomb as a desensitizing and antiallergenic substance for hay fever. Their results were very encouraging, especially those from subjects who chewed the honeycomb.
Start this regime about two months before hay fever season. By the time the season rolls around, the honeycomb may have helped you build an immunity to the pollen in your area. (You can also chew a bite-sized chunk of honeycomb at the stan of a hay fever attack.)
It's important to find a beekeeper in your vicinity and get local honeycomb. For prevention, chew a 1-inch square of it twice a day. The honey is delicious, and the comb pan turns into a ball of wax. Chew the wax for about 10 to 15 minutes, then spit it out.
If you don't have access to a local bee¬keeper, look for honeycomb at your neighbor¬hood health food store. Hopefully, it's from your neck of the woods.
CAUTION: People who are allergic to bee stings or honey should consult a doctor before chewing honeycomb.
Starting three months before hay fever sea¬ son, drink 1 cup of fenugreek-seed tea each day. The tea is available at health food stores. This remedy goes back to the ancient Egyptians and forward to Armenian mountaineers who drink 1 cup of fenugreek tea before each meal to clear and stimulate their senses of smell and taste.
Back Pain Home Remedies Post By Thomas Husnik
It is estimated that eight out of 10 people have, at some point in their lives, back pain that disables them. Also estimated is the money spent for diagnosis and treatment of back pain-more than $5 billion annually:
Back pain is very common during pregnancy, due to the considerable anatomical changes and stress in the body. Carrying a child changes the position of your internal organs putting a huge amount of pressure on the lower spine. The increase in body weight, the muscle relaxing effects of the hormone progesterone, and the change in your center of gravity contribute to the problem. That's why every day as your baby grows it's harder to get up and down of chairs and beds.
If you have back pain you can feel also muscle aches, locked areas in your back, stiff neck and your hole body will ache.
Other causes of back pain can be poor postural habits, strains, microtrauma, muscle tension and nutritional deficiencies. When repeated episodes of injury are added to this mix, the discs become thin, deteriorated or ruptured. These events can also lead to arthritic related conditions. With nerves close by, swelling or compression in the spine often results in neuritis, lumbar neuralgia, or sciatica.
We have come across some remedies that are worth trying to relieve minor backaches. At best, they'll help-at least, they'll give you something to talk about the next time someone tells you his/her back went out.
Natural Home Remedies
An Asian remedy for the prevention or relief of lower back problems
is black beans (also called frijoles negros-although not in Asia !), which are available at supermarkets and health food stores
.
Soak a cupful of black beans overnight. This softens the beans and is said to remove the gas-producing compounds. Then put them in a pot with 3 1/2cups of water. Bring to a boil, and let simmer for a half-hour over low heat. During that half-hour, keep removing the grayish foam that forms on top. After a half-hour, cover the pot and let it cook for another two hours. If, by the end of that time, there's still water in the pot, spill it out.
Eat 2 to 3 tablespoons of the black beans each day for one month, then every other day for one month.
Guggulu is very helpful. Eat half a teaspoon twice a day after meals with warm water.
Lemon is another useful remedy for backache. The juice of one lemon should be mixed with common salt and taken by the patient twice daily. It will give relief.
Fresh beans should be prepared at least every three or four days.
Raw potato is an ancient home remedy for backache, characterized by incapacitating pain in the lumbar region, especially in the lower part of the back. Application of raw potato in the foam of a poultice has been found very effective in this condition.
Hot and Cold Packs
First, be sure to put ice on the injured area, then alternate with heat. The ice helps reduce inflammation be constricting the surrounding blood vessels, reducing blood flow and swelling. Never apply ice for more than five minute increments, however, as the cold can freeze the skin and soft tissue. After two days, heat should be used to increase the blood flow to that area.
Get a Friend
You need to employ the buddy system for this remedy. Get your buddy to put 20 drops of eucalyptus oil in a tablespoon and warm it by passing it over the flame of a lit candle for a few seconds. Then have your buddy gently massage the warm oil on your painful area. The "hands on" are as healing as the oil. http://www.miraclebackpaincure.com
Back pain is very common during pregnancy, due to the considerable anatomical changes and stress in the body. Carrying a child changes the position of your internal organs putting a huge amount of pressure on the lower spine. The increase in body weight, the muscle relaxing effects of the hormone progesterone, and the change in your center of gravity contribute to the problem. That's why every day as your baby grows it's harder to get up and down of chairs and beds.
If you have back pain you can feel also muscle aches, locked areas in your back, stiff neck and your hole body will ache.
Other causes of back pain can be poor postural habits, strains, microtrauma, muscle tension and nutritional deficiencies. When repeated episodes of injury are added to this mix, the discs become thin, deteriorated or ruptured. These events can also lead to arthritic related conditions. With nerves close by, swelling or compression in the spine often results in neuritis, lumbar neuralgia, or sciatica.
We have come across some remedies that are worth trying to relieve minor backaches. At best, they'll help-at least, they'll give you something to talk about the next time someone tells you his/her back went out.
Natural Home Remedies
An Asian remedy for the prevention or relief of lower back problems
is black beans (also called frijoles negros-although not in Asia !), which are available at supermarkets and health food stores
.
Soak a cupful of black beans overnight. This softens the beans and is said to remove the gas-producing compounds. Then put them in a pot with 3 1/2cups of water. Bring to a boil, and let simmer for a half-hour over low heat. During that half-hour, keep removing the grayish foam that forms on top. After a half-hour, cover the pot and let it cook for another two hours. If, by the end of that time, there's still water in the pot, spill it out.
Eat 2 to 3 tablespoons of the black beans each day for one month, then every other day for one month.
Guggulu is very helpful. Eat half a teaspoon twice a day after meals with warm water.
Lemon is another useful remedy for backache. The juice of one lemon should be mixed with common salt and taken by the patient twice daily. It will give relief.
Fresh beans should be prepared at least every three or four days.
Raw potato is an ancient home remedy for backache, characterized by incapacitating pain in the lumbar region, especially in the lower part of the back. Application of raw potato in the foam of a poultice has been found very effective in this condition.
Hot and Cold Packs
First, be sure to put ice on the injured area, then alternate with heat. The ice helps reduce inflammation be constricting the surrounding blood vessels, reducing blood flow and swelling. Never apply ice for more than five minute increments, however, as the cold can freeze the skin and soft tissue. After two days, heat should be used to increase the blood flow to that area.
Get a Friend
You need to employ the buddy system for this remedy. Get your buddy to put 20 drops of eucalyptus oil in a tablespoon and warm it by passing it over the flame of a lit candle for a few seconds. Then have your buddy gently massage the warm oil on your painful area. The "hands on" are as healing as the oil. http://www.miraclebackpaincure.com
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