Migraine prevention
To prevent the disease and prevent migraine attacks, medications and non-drug methods are used in combination.
The main goal of treatment is to reduce the frequency and severity of migraine attacks.
To help with the symptoms of an attack, the first thing you should do is, without waiting for the pain to intensify, drink a cup of strong sweet tea with any sweets.
Glucose, which is so necessary for the brain during hypoxia, can prevent a migraine attack.
The most correct thing to do during a migraine attack is to retire to a darkened, quiet room, protect yourself from sharp, loud sounds and smells and try to fall asleep. Deep sleep for at least 2-3 hours, as a rule, completely relieves a migraine attack.
An attack can be prevented by changing the type of breathing. It is enough to take 5-6 shallow breaths into the stomach and longer exhalations.
With proper and timely implementation of these techniques in the initial period, a migraine attack can be avoided.
Non-drug methods are used:
- acupuncture
- collar area massage
- darsonvalization of the head and collar area
- water procedures - pearl
- pine baths
- physical therapy with an emphasis on the cervical spine
Mustard plaster on the neck, sleeping pills (30–50 drops of Valocordin), head massage and washing in very hot water in the shower improve well-being. An effective remedy for relieving a migraine attack is a warm foot bath (or a warm heating pad on the feet).
As various studies show, the occurrence of migraines can be associated, among other things, with poor nutrition. By adjusting your daily menu, a migraine attack will remind you less and less often.
To begin with, you should eliminate or reduce to a minimum the amount of foods that contribute to migraine attacks, and at the same time introduce into your menu those foods that have a calming effect; These products include fish oil.
An excellent remedy for migraines is ginger. It acts as a pain reliever. Peppermint has soothing and refreshing properties. It can be added to drinks or used as an addition to desserts.
Introduce pepper into your diet. It’s not for nothing that it’s called the king of spices; it contains capsaicin, a substance that instantly relieves pain.
When following a special “anti-migraine” diet, it is important not to skip meals under any circumstances. If you fast, your blood sugar levels will drop, which can cause severe headaches. Eat more foods rich in calcium and magnesium. These include nuts, greens, and grains.
Who needs to use herbs with caution
Treatment of migraine with herbs has practically no contraindications, but there are cases when it is not recommended to use this or that herb or it is better to treat with traditional means.
Pregnant women should be treated with herbs with great caution; some of them can cause serious harm to the baby. Pregnant women are allowed to take mint, lemon balm and linden, but it is best to make tea from them rather than prepare a tincture.
Which migraine herb is completely safe? It is difficult to provide an exact answer to this question. Some herbs are not recommended for use in chronic diseases of various organs. That is why it is best to start herbal treatment only after consulting a therapist. After a full examination, the doctor will determine the advisability of using herbs for headaches and migraines or prescribe complex treatment using medications and traditional medicine.
Nutrition for migraine proneness
The table below will help you create a suitable menu for every day, which indicates products that relieve migraine attacks and reduce their frequency, and vice versa, those that should be avoided if you suffer from this disease.
| Food products | Allowed | Limited (cautious) use | Strictly prohibited |
| BEVERAGES | Decaffeinated coffee, fruit juices, soda, decaffeinated sodas | Coffee and tea no more than 2 times a day; Caffeine-containing carbonated drinks and hot chocolate 1 glass once a day | Alcoholic drinks: sherry, vermouth, beer, ale. Canned soft drinks |
| Meat, fish, poultry, eggs | Freshly prepared fresh meat, poultry, live fish, fresh eggs | Bacon, sausage, sausages, smoked beef, ham, caviar | Stale, canned, salted, pickled, smoked, spicy foods. Salami, liver sausage. Stale meat, liver |
| DAIRY | Whole milk 2% fat or skim. Low fat processed cheese | Parmesan, yogurt, yogurt, sour cream 1⁄2 cup per day | Long-aging cheeses: Swiss, Roquefort, cheddar, Emmental |
| FLOUR PRODUCTS, GREATS, PASTES | Factory-produced yeast dough products; products prepared with the use of raising agents (biscuits); any porridge; any pastes (for example, tomato) | Homemade yeast dough, sour dough bread | Products with additives such as E-102, E-122, chocolate, walnuts, citrus zest |
| VEGETABLES | Asparagus, carrots, spinach, tomatoes, boiled or fried onions, potatoes, zucchini, legumes, pumpkin, beets | Fresh onion | Canned and pickled soy and bean products. Soy sauce |
| FRUITS | Apples, pears, cherries, peaches, apricots | No more than 1⁄2 cup per day: citrus fruits (oranges, tangerines, grapefruits, pineapples, lemons), avocados, bananas, dates, red plums, raisins | — |
| NUTS and CEREALS | — | — | Any nuts and grains |
| SOUPS | Homemade soups | Soups containing yeast, MSG (Chinese cuisine), meat broth | — |
| DESSERTS and sweets | Sugar, honey, muffins, cookies, jam, jelly, lollipops | Products containing chocolate: ice cream (1 cup), chocolate candies (15 g) | Meat pies |
| SPICES | Any | — | — |
Herbal medicine for migraines
Herbal medicine plays a supporting role in the treatment of migraine.
Plants with analgesic, antispasmodic, vasodilating, sedative, and restorative properties are used. Effective remedies in the fight against migraines are strong green tea, fresh viburnum juice, and black currant juice.
Folk remedies for the treatment of migraines
- Use hot foot baths, warm compresses on the head, tightening and bandaging the head, hot drinks
- During a migraine attack, you should place a cold rag on the area of maximum pain, and immerse your feet in hot water. If the diseased part of the head has turned pale (that is, the blood has drained from it), then hot lotions should be placed on it. If there is no difference in skin color, then you can tie a hot towel around your entire head, grabbing your temples, and put a slice of fresh lemon on your temples
- A massage of the head and collar area is recommended, starting from the forehead and moving with both hands to the back of the head and below.
- It is useful to drink freshly squeezed juices of carrots, cucumbers and spinach
- Compresses with raw onions on the forehead are effective
- In the old days, during migraine attacks, it was advised to put a tampon soaked in onion juice in the ear.
Treatment of migraine with folk remedies
One of the most common forms of primary headache is migraine. Migraine pain usually occurs either in the back of the head or in the temples and gradually covers more and more of the head. The onset of migraines can be triggered by allergic and hormonal, as well as nervous and mental causes.
More precisely, it could be alcohol, caffeine, sweets, harsh light, stress and much more. If you “face the truth”, then at the first symptoms of a migraine you need to consult a doctor who will help establish the true cause of its occurrence and tell you exactly how to deal with it. However, we all know that people, in the fight against headaches, most often resort to the help of their favorite folk recipes. Moreover, quite often such folk remedies really help them.
Although headache is one of the most common complaints referred to a doctor, it is clear that only a small proportion of the migraine group seeks medical attention. These are patients whose attacks are severe, frequent, or unusual.
General therapeutic measures in the treatment of migraine include three elements: avoiding the circumstances that trigger the migraine attack, promoting general well-being and, finally, social and psychotherapeutic measures.
General measures to prevent a migraine attack are to advise the patient not to worry, take a vacation, get enough exercise, not go to bed too late, etc., and this advice has been given to migraine sufferers since the time of Hippocrates.
There are a lot of circumstances that provoke a migraine attack. Let's highlight some of them.
Some patients are sensitive to the flickering light of televisions, which means they need to spend less time in front of the television screen.
Some people cannot drink a drop of alcohol without risking a migraine attack. Hence the conclusion.
Some people cannot tolerate sleep deprivation, while others benefit from sleep restriction.
In these and similar cases, the patient is faced with a choice: avoid the provoking moment or get a migraine attack.
Traditional medicine currently offers a large selection of herbal medicines for the treatment of migraines.
Treatment of migraine with folk remedies can be very effective. Here is a whole range of such folk remedies, and you choose what suits you best. First of all, I would like to draw your attention to one of the most effective recipes for combating migraines. This is a decoction of meadow clover. Take one tablespoon of red clover flowers, pour one glass of boiling water over them and let it brew for 60 minutes. After this, the broth must be filtered. This remedy is taken half a glass in the morning, at lunch and in the evening.
Fresh leaves of lilac or white cabbage can also help get rid of headaches. Take a few lilac or cabbage leaves and apply them to the sore spots for a couple of hours.
Fresh potato juice is another popular recipe for fighting migraines. You should drink this juice in the amount of a quarter of a glass every time you have a headache.
One of the main medications for migraines is CAFFEINE. It is used in the form of strong coffee or tea 2-3 times a day.
In the Caucasus, for migraines, they drink a decoction of dogwood fruit instead of tea several times a day.
A HEAD MASSAGE, starting from the forehead and moving both hands to the back of the head, helps relieve an attack.
Take 2 times a day PURIFIED TURPENESS with sugar, 10-15 drops.
Inhale in equal parts a MIXTURE OF CAMPHOROUS ALCOHOL AND AMONGIA.
Place SOUR CABBAGE in a rag behind your ears and on your temples and tie a towel around your head.
If a migraine attack began due to brain fatigue, eat HERRING.
To get rid of constant migraines, this remedy helps many: break a FRESH EGG in a glass, FILL it to the top with BOILING MILK, quickly stir and drink. Do this for several days in a row.
At the first symptoms of an approaching migraine attack, do the same.
A preventive remedy for all kinds of headaches is to drink a glass of WHEY OR BUTTERMILK every day on an empty stomach.
MEADOW CLOVER. 1 tbsp. l. flowers are brewed with a glass of boiling water, left for 1 hour. Strain. Drink 1/2 glass 3 times a day.
For headaches, apply FRESH LEAVES OF LILAC (white cabbage) to the affected areas, to the forehead and temples.
Drink 1/4 cup of FRESH POTATO JUICE 2 times a day for systematic headaches.
BUZINASIBIRSKAYA. Prepare the infusion: 1 tbsp. l. Pour a glass of boiling water over dried flowers, leave for 1 hour, strain. Take 1/4 cup (with honey) 3-4 times a day 15 minutes before meals.
PREPARE THE MIXTURE:
Peppermint - 1 part
Oregano – 1 part
Angustifolia fireweed - 1 part
1 tbsp. l. pour 300 ml of boiling water over the mixture, leave for 1 hour, strain. Take 1 glass for migraines and headaches.
ORIGIN. 1 tbsp. l. dry herbs, pour 300 ml of boiling water, leave for 1 hour in a warm place. Strain. Take 1 glass 3 times a day.
GREEN TEA. Strong green tea often interrupts a migraine attack. It also relieves any headache.
St. John's wort perforatum. For migraines and headaches, make a decoction: 1 tbsp. l. dry herbs are poured with 1 glass of water and boiled for 10 minutes over low heat. Leave for 30 minutes, filter. Drink 1/4 cup 3 times a day.
FRESH KALINA JUICE is drunk for headaches.
BLACKCURRANT. Currant juice even relieves severe headaches. Drink 1/4 cup 3-4 times a day.
MELISSA. 15 g of herb (3 tbsp) per glass of boiling water. Leave for 1 hour. Take 2 tbsp. l. 4-5 times a day.
VALERIAN OFFICINAL. Decoction: 1 tbsp. l. pour a glass of boiling water over the crushed root, boil for 15 minutes in a water bath, leave for 1 hour, strain. Take 1 tbsp. l. 3 times a day.
During a migraine attack, VALERIAN BATH BATHES have a good effect.
PHARMACEUTICAL CAMOMILE. Soothing and anti-inflammatory agent. 1 tbsp. l. pour a glass of boiling water over the flowers, leave for 1 hour, strain. Take 1/2 cup 3-4 times a day.
WHITE LILY. 2 tbsp. l. bulbs and the same number of flowers are poured with a glass of vegetable oil, left in a sunlit place for 20 days (shaking periodically). Strain and lubricate the location of any pain.
Lovage officinalis. 2 tsp. herbs or 1 tsp. crushed root, pour a glass of boiling water, leave for 7 hours. Take for 2 days, 3-4 times a day.
SAGEBRUSH. Fresh or steamed herbs are applied to the sore spot. To prepare the infusion, pour 15 g of dry herb with a glass of boiling water and leave for 1 hour. Strain. Take within an hour. Drink in small sips.
IF, DURING THE APPEARANCE of migraine pain, one half of the head becomes red, then cold lotions should be placed on this side, and the feet should be placed in hot water. If the diseased half of the head turns white, then hot lotions should be placed on it, and the legs should be immersed in cold water.
If there is no change in the color of the head and face, and only a severe headache bothers you, then tie a hot towel around your head, grabbing your temples, and put a slice of fresh lemon on your temples.
One of the wonderful folk remedies that helps relieve pain during a migraine attack is the following. Make a mixture of equal parts (by weight) of the following plants: CHERRY LAUREL LEAVES, EUCALYPTUS LEAVES, LAUROW CAMPHORAL LEAVES, LAUREL AND EUCALYPTUS LEAVES. Mix everything thoroughly, cover it with cloth (in the form of a pillow) and during a migraine attack, lie down on this pillow for 2-3 hours.
INDUCTION OF THE HERB OPENED (dream-herb, snowdrop). 2 tsp. pour dried herbs with 1 glass of boiled water and leave for 24 hours in a warm place. Strain. Drink cold throughout the day.
PRIMROSE. Infusion. Grind roots, stems and leaves. 1 tsp. pour 300 ml of boiling water over the resulting mass, leave in a warm place for 1 hour, cool, strain. Drink 1/2-1 glass 2-3 times a day. The infusion has a calming and mild hypnotic effect.
LINDEN HEART-SHAPED. Infusion of flowers. The flowers are brewed and drunk as tea, 1 glass 2-3 times a day.
Take 3 EGG YOLKS, mix 1/2 tsp. l. SAFFRON, mix well and apply as a compress on a towel to painful areas.
People who often suffer from headaches of various origins should wear a THREAD OF AMBER around their neck.
INSTRUCTION OF VEGETABLE DILL SEEDS. 1 tsp. for 1 cup boiling water. Leave for 2 hours, drink during the day with sediment.
Strong green tea, fresh viburnum juice, and blackcurrant juice are also amazing remedies in the fight against migraines.
You can also prepare an infusion of Siberian elderberry. To prepare this infusion, you need to take one tablespoon of dried flowers of this plant, which you need to pour one glass of boiling water and let it brew for sixty minutes. Take this infusion with honey, a quarter of a glass three times a day, fifteen minutes before meals.
Sometimes people make special preparations to combat migraines. One of these collections is a mixture of peppermint, oregano and angustifolia fireweed. Take one tablespoon of a mixture of these herbs, pour three hundred milliliters of boiling water over them and let it brew for 60 minutes. After this, the infusion should be filtered and taken one glass at a time if necessary.
For migraines, they also make a decoction of St. John's wort. One tablespoon of dry herb must be poured with one glass of boiling water and left on the fire for ten minutes. After this, leave the infusion for half an hour to infuse. Drink a quarter of a glass in the morning, lunch and evening.
Many people know that lemon balm is part of a large number of folk recipes used in the fight against various diseases. It has also found wide application in the fight against migraines. If you take three tablespoons of the herb of this plant, pour one glass of boiling water over them and let it brew for an hour, you will get an excellent folk remedy for migraines. This infusion is taken two tablespoons four times a day.
A decoction of valerian officinalis is also used for migraines. You need to take one tablespoon of the crushed root of this plant, pour it with one glass of boiled water and boil for fifteen minutes in a water bath. Let it brew for an hour, strain and take one tablespoon three times a day.
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