How to relieve a headache without medication? Technique of acupressure. Aromatherapy. Therapeutic tinctures

Headache is an unpleasant sensation that does not allow you to concentrate on work, causes a decline in mental and physical activity, violates all the person's plans. How to relieve a headache without medication? After all, no one has the desire to constantly swallow tablets. Let's figure this out.

The most common causes of migraine:

• Physical and mental overwork;
• Emotional overstrain;
• Poor sleep, lack of sleep;
• A disease accompanied by an inflammatory process;
• Osteochondrosis;
• Beriberi, hormonal imbalance;
• Circulatory disturbance in the brain;
• hypertension;
• Many other reasons.

Fighting a headache without medication

How to relieve a headache without medication? Is it possible? Consider the good old methods of combating migraine, as well as folk remedies that can be easily prepared at home, by purchasing the most affordable ingredients in the pharmacy or store.

Folk methods of struggle with migraine

• Copper is a metal that "draws in" the pain. You can attach a copper coin to your forehead. The pain will be after about half an hour.
• Capable of "picking up" the headache cabbage leaves or beet tops.
• To remove migraines use a strip of woolen cloth. This strip needs to be put on the head so that it lies slightly on the eyebrows in front, and behind - behind the back of the head.
• Also, 100 milliliters of black currant juice or 50 milliliters of potato are good.
• Saves migraine lemon. You need to take a peel of fresh lemon, remove the white film and attach it to the sore spot. From above you can tie your head with a cloth of wool and lie down to rest.
• If the whiskey presses, it is recommended to take a daily teaspoon of apple cider vinegar and honey during a meal.
• When migraine is effective, drink aloe juice - 30 drops per 100 milliliters of water.

Recipes for the preparation of some simple products

• An effective home remedy for pain in the head is the tincture of Eleutherococcus, it is sold in a pharmacy in ready-to-eat form. To drink it is necessary so: one drop in the morning, 2 in the evening, the next morning already three, yet will not reach 14. To accept on 14 drops it is necessary still 7-10 days.
• Mint is a plant that soothes, relaxes and relieves pain in the head. It is enough to throw a leaf of mint into tea. To drink preferably two glasses. A migraine will pass in half an hour. It helps with migraine tincture of mint, instructions for use suggest that it should be rubbed on 2-3 drops in the skin of the area of the temples. Tincture of mint (instructions for use this guarantees) is absolutely harmless both for adults and for children. The only contraindication may be individual intolerance.
• Sufficiently effective in the fight against headache has proved itself an alcohol tincture of propolis. 20 grams of bee glue to crush well and pour 100 milliliters of alcohol or very strong vodka. Insist 10 days. Take once a day for 40 drops and a half glasses of water.
• A very useful spice is cinnamon. It is advised to pour a teaspoon of cinnamon with 8 tablespoons of hot water. Add a spoonful of honey or sugar. Insist 30 minutes and drink 2 sips every hour. If very strongly presses a whiskey, then cinnamon can take more.

Acupressure with headache

How to remove a headache without drugs, and with the help of a conventional massage? On the human body, there are points that relieve the headache. They are located:

• In the eye area;
• On the neck below the occiput;
• Between the thumb and forefinger;
• In the wrist area.

The method of acupressure suggests that you need to gently rub these points or lightly press them. After such an exercise, a flush of vigor is immediately felt, and there was no migraine.

We are looking for the main points for massage

• Points near the eyes - can be found between the outer corners of the eyes and the outer ends of the eyebrows, exactly in the middle. From the edge of the eyebrow bone, measure the width of the index finger in the direction of the ears. It's easy to find them, because touching them is very sensitive, special tenderness and delicacy is required.
• Points on the neck, below the nape, are located on both sides of the neck near the base of the skull. They can be found by clicking on the bones behind the ears and moving to the spine. So move to the first indentations. Then you need to hold your thumbs up to the base of the skull. The fact that these are exactly these points can be understood intuitively, since they are extremely sensitive. They also need to be massaged.
• Points near the thumbs can be found in the triangular area, which is located between the thumb and forefinger. To find this point, you just need to feel the fleshy tissue of the triangle. It is very difficult to make a mistake, because feeling for this point, you will immediately feel a difference in sensations and even some soreness.
• Points in the wrist area are easy to find if you stretch and raise your thumb as far as possible. At once you can see two tendons, here between them, in the hollow, and this point is located.

Use of aromatherapy with migraine

How to relieve a headache without medication? This question can also be found in the aromatherapist.

To combat migraine, you can try to use essential oil of basil. You need to smoke them a room and sit quietly and relaxed. Basil oil is an effective remedy for calming the nervous system. If the fumigation of the room with basil oil is carried out daily during the month, the headaches will be forsaken forever, and the mental activity becomes more active.

Effective remedies for the headache are essential oils of lemon, lavender, geranium, roses. They are able to anesthetize, maintain the body's immunity.

In aromatherapy it is very important to know what caused the headache, and even then you can pick up the right oil. For example, if the cause is high pressure, then the ylang-ylang will help.

If you suffer migraine or fatigue accumulated, you can drop a few drops of essential oils of lemon and geranium on a napkin, attach to the nose and inhale the fragrance before it evaporates.

Cold compresses are also effective. To them are added essential oils of basil, peppermint, lemon, rose and lavender. You can use either one of the flavors, the smell of which you like most, or all at once, in equal quantities - at your own discretion. These oils should be added to a glass of chilled mineral water. Cotton cloth soak in the liquid and apply as a compress to the temples and forehead. Change as soon as it gets warm, after 5-7 minutes. This procedure is desirable to do with the first signs of migraine.

You can also massage the whiskey with aromatic oil. For this purpose roses, melissa, lemon, lavender oils will suit. For massage, apply a drop of oil on the forehead, whiskey and ear lobes. To rub with pads of fingers before soaking.

How to eliminate a headache during pregnancy without drugs

A pregnant woman should not take pills. And how to relieve a headache during pregnancy without medication? Most often it is recommended to perform such actions:

• Take a walk in the fresh air, ventilate the apartment, sleep and rest in a favorable atmosphere, with no outside light and noises;
• Take a shower, make a cold compress;
• Do massage the main sensitive points;
• Drink tea with lemon or mint, you can brew chamomile or a dogrose;
• Light the aroma lamp, choosing an essential oil with a favorite aroma.

If the headache is excruciating in the morning, it is possible that the pillow is not picked up correctly, or the bed is uncomfortable. Sleep should be calm and comfortable. If the cause of migraine is not clear, you need to exclude from the diet chocolate, citrus. A pregnant woman, first of all, should avoid negative emotions, walk a lot, breathe fresh air, relax. Taking care of yourself should be in the first place!

Treatment of headache in children

How to remove a headache in a child without medication? After all, their body needs to be protected, and pills and drops are taken early.

• The child is recommended to wash his head with a decoction of peppermint when migraine.
• If the headaches arose on an emotional background, you need to eat a tablespoon of sugar for a few days before going to bed, drinking it with a glass of water.
• In the event that a headache caused by overwork, a warm bath and tea from the chamomile will help.
• When migraines, fresh strawberries or cowberries will be effective. A good help will be a tablespoon of fresh juice from the viburnum. Blackcurrant juice is also effective: it should be given to a child 50 milliliters three times a day. A good result with a migraine in a child will give 50 milliliters of juice from fresh potatoes, too, three times a day.
• Help the child with migraine infusion of cinnamon: five grams of cinnamon pour 100 milliliters of boiled water, cooled to about 80 degrees.
  Insist half an hour, drink two sips every hour.
• The child is very useful every day on an empty stomach to drink half the glass of dairy products, such as whey or curdled milk. This reduces the chances that the migraine will spoil the mood and the plans of the child.
• Strangely enough, but the headache will decrease if you press your forehead against the window glass.
• You can apply fresh leaves of lilac or cabbage to the child's forehead.
• Like adults, a lemon will help children. Its fresh peel is cleaned from the white film and attached to the temples. They, however, leave behind a red stain, but it disappears with a headache.

Health to all!