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Migraine preventive cures
how to prevent the attack of migraine? i have migraine for the last 5-6 years. how to prevent it?
(17 Jan 2008)
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Prevention of Migraine
In today’s fast, busy and hectic world, everyone gets headaches. This headache can be a result of stress, eye pain, lack of sleep, cold or any other health disorder that mainly causes throbbing in your head. This headache transforms into a migraine when the throbbing becomes a recurrent process with additional symptoms such as dizziness, stomach ache, weak and sensitiveness to light, noise and smell.
The best way to prevent migraines is to learn the causes of migraine and then try to avoid these causes. Take a break from your daily routine activities and learn the principal stimulants like food, stress, lack of sleep, alcohol, tea or any other materialistic or im-materialistic substance. If you are allergic to any food and you know that triggers headache, then avoid that food. If you know you will feel throbbing in your pain due to lack of sleep, then take a break and have a good amount of sleep. Similarly, learn the other causes and try to deactivate the effects of those causes.
If stress is a major factor contributing to headache, then the best thing that you can do is manage your stress through yoga, mediation and relaxation. If you know understand the causes of your headache then you can easily prevent migraine.
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answered by J on 28 Feb 2008, 3:38:07
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Preventive cures for migraine
- Regularly drink undiluted grape juice everyday.
- Crush a few fresh cabbage leaves and wrap it in a soft muslin cloth. Place it on your forehead whenever you get migraine attack. Replace the leaves with fresh ones every few hours.
- Make a paste of lemon crust with water and apply it on your forehead to get relief form headache.
- Massage your forehead with warm mustard oil in which a few garlic cloves have been boiled. You can also use any balm or other oil for this.
- Apply cold compress on your forehead 3 to 4 times a day. You can also use hot compress alternatively.
- Avoid loud music, getting direct light in your eyes and doing fine works as reading, sewing or working on a computer. Rest as much as you can. Drink a glass of warm milk added with 1 tsp of honey to induce sleep.
- Drink peppermint tea or have its extract but avoid it if you have heart burn or acidity problems.
- Passionflower has anti-inflammatory and pain-killing properties and also lowers anxiety. Take its tea before going to bed. It will calm you and lull you to sleep.
- Have cayenne pepper regularly when you get a migraine headache.
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answered by D D on 17 Feb 2008, 11:55:40
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