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Herbs Used for Headache
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Bay laurel For: Migraines |
| This familiar culinary herb, like feverfew, contains pathenolides. Try using bay in combination with feverfew to prevent migraine. 36 | |
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Cayenne For: Headaches |
| Massage a balm containing cayenne into your temples for headaches, or take encapsulated cayenne.
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Coffee For: Headaches |
| Doctors at the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago, Illinois, have found that the common painkiller, ibuprofen, is more active against tension headaches when combined with caffeine. | |
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Feverfew For: Migraines |
| Its best documented use is in preventing and alleviating migraines. A phytochemical called pathenolide most likely is responsible, but don't discount the value of other natural compounds in the plant 27 | |
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Feverfew For: Migraine |
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| Sesquiterpene lactones in feverfew may inhibit prostaglandins and histamine released during the inflammatory process, so preventing spasms of blood vessels in the head that trigger migraine attacks..also important in the inflammation and pain of arthritis, promoting restful sleep, improving digestion, and relieving asthma attacks. Feverfew users involved in clinical studies reported that feverfew helped their depression. 48 | |
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Jamaican Dogwood For: Migraine and neuralgia |
| Jamaican Dogwood is considered a relatively powerful remedy for for treating nerve pain, migraine, insomnia, anxiety, fear, and nervous tension. More recent scientific studies have also shown that bark extracts of this plant have anti-inflammatory, sedative, and anti-spasmodic (helps relieve smooth muscle spasms along the digestive tract) effects in animals. . Complementary Medicine - Jamaican Dogwood. (2006), University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) | |
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Lavender oil, rosemary oil For: Nervous headache |
| For headaches apply a few drops of lavender oil neat to the temples. A few drops of lavender rubbed on the temple will cure a nervous headache.. Combine with rosemary and juniper oils and apply to the back of the neck and shoulders, and massage until the muscles relax. Lavender herb teas should be used in combination with melissa (lemon balm) and skullcap. | |
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Oregano Leaf For: Nervous headache |
| An infusion made from the fresh plant will relieve nervous headache | |
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Peppermint essential oil For: Headache |
| A few drops of peppermint essential oil in a cold compress across the forehead or over the back of the neck cools the body | |
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Rue For: Sciatica |
| Externally, Rue is an active irritant, being employed as a rubefacient. If bruised and applied, the leaves will ease the severe pain of sciatica. The expressed juice, in small quantities, was a noted remedy for nervous nightmare, and the fresh leaves applied to the temples are said to relieve headache. Compresses saturated with a strong decoction of the plant, when applied to the chest, have been used beneficially for chronic bronchitis. If a leaf or two be chewed, a refreshing aromatic flavour will pervade the mouth and any nervous headache, giddiness, hysterical spasm, or palpitation will be quickly relieved. 10 | |
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Skullcap For: Irritability, or headache |
| Skullcap also treats the symptoms of emotional excess "rising" in the body to cause blushing, flushing, irritability, or headache. | |
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Valerian For: Headaches, nerve tonic |
| Valerian is effective as an nerve tonic, and as a remedy for headaches and pain | |
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Vervain For: Pain relief |
| As a poultice it is good in headache, earache, neuralgia, rheumatism, etc. In this form it colors the skin a fine red, giving rise to the idea that it had the power of drawing the blood outside. 11 | |
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