Thursday, April 23, 2015

20 Easy Ways To Relief Headache





Having headache is annoying and sometimes it is difficult for us to avoid. Mostly when we are under pressure, headache appeared automatically. If it gets worse, we might faint due to the pain we felt.

A headache is a condition of mild to severe pain in the head. It can also attack at our upper back or neck. There are different types of headache, but most of the time headache brought on by stress, too long in front of computer, noise and others.

One of the main causes of headache is tension in the muscles of the neck, scalp and jaw. We usually deal with it by taking some sleep or consume over-the counter aspirin to release our pain. However, can we do this at any place?

Obviously, we cannot sleep at the office or at the mall. In addition, we might run of aspirin when headache strike us.

Do not worry! The easiest way to handle headache and we can do it everywhere is through massage. Massage is the practice of applying pressure or vibration to the soft tissues of the body, to heal injury, relieve psychological stress, manage pain, improve circulation and relieve tension.

When we suffer from headache, we can help ourselves with self-massage. Simple and everybody can do it, either at work or home.



Here are 20 easy ways in massage to heal our headache.

1. Eyes Area Massage -- Close your eyes. Place your middle fingers to your eyes that are above cheekbones. Massage that area gently but firmly in circular motion for 1 minute,

2. Eyes to Nose Massage – Using thumb, go along the underside of eyebrows (along the bone on top of eye socket). Feel where this bone meets the bridge of your nose and eyes and find a point where there is a small indentation. Very gentle pressure, press your thumbs into the points. You can do it four times by holding and press that area for 10 seconds in each press.

3. Neck Massage -- Massage a point where you can feel it by moving the middle fingers of your hands to the back of your head and feel the base of your skull. Specially, at the tops of your neck that meets the base of your skull. Massage for a minutes using finger tips gentle in circular movement.

4. Scalp Massage – Let your palms of your hands massage your scalp on the top of your skull for a minute gently.

5. Often headaches are caused by dehydration. So if you feel a headache coming on drink 2 or 3 glasses of water. In a day we are to drink at least 8 glasses of water. But often we drink other things like alcohol or coffee that add to the dehydration so we need to drink even more water. I keep a pitcher of filtered cold water in the fridge at all times. I keep it in a gallon container so I know how much I have drank during the day.

Once you have done all those massages, start taking a deep breath. Lift your shoulders towards your ears for five to 10 seconds to relief remaining pain, and then let them drop back down into their natural position.

You are going to feel better when you can do that for a couple of times. Your massage will relief your headache and your head will feel less weighty.

6.  Put a few drops of Lavender oil in a pan of hot water. Cover your head with a towel and breathe in the lavender.  Or take a few drops of lavender oil and massage it into your temples. Lavender oil can be quite relaxing. It can help with sleep. It can help relieve any kind of tension pain. Never take lavender internally.
7. Try a tea made of rosemary and sage. It is quite effective in relieving headaches. Or take some rosemary oil and massage your temples with it for a few minutes. If the headache persists try drinking the tea made of rosemary and sage two or three times during the day. Usually after the first cup the headache is gone and certainly by the second or third cup.
8.  Try cloves crush them and put them in a  handheld steam inhaler.  Breathe deeply and breath out slowly.  I bought one of these and it is so worth what I spent on it.  Mix clove oil with sea salt and massage into your forehead and temples. The clove oil provides a cooling effect, while the sea salt intensifies the massage.
9.  Try some fresh basil leaves is some hot water, let the water boil and then pour it over the leaves drink as a tea.  Or if the headache is very persistent just try chewing some fresh leaves.  Basil is a muscle relaxant so helps especially with tension headaches.
10. Try ginger it is an noninflammatory and works as well as an aspirin would to relieve pain.

 11.  Try making a paste of cinnamon and place it on your forehead for 5 to 10 minutes or mix two teaspoons of cinnamon in a cup of warm milk add some raw honey for sweetner and drink it while it is still quite warm. It should relieve the head ache soon.
12.  Use peppermint oil added to boiling water. The calming effects of peppermint is well known it is in most sleepy time teas. Try massaging a couple of drops of peppermint into your temple, down your jaw. It is quite relaxing and can help with headaches.
13.  Try eating an apple with the skin on.  Apples help balance the alkaline and acidic levels in the body, thus providing relief from headaches.
14.  Go for a walk if you can go to a park or somewhere quiet near nature. The fresh air and  being outside near nature helps one relax and if the headache is caused by too much staring at a computer screen or just plain tension this can work wonders. 
15.  Try using an ice pack to ease the throbbing in your head, by placing it on your forehead, temples, or the back of your neck. The cooling effect of the ice pack will help to relax muscles and relieve pain.  My neighbor who has terrible migraines swears by this one. She sometimes uses a heating pad. My daughter swears by both of these alternating heat and ice. 
16.  Take a shower and let  the hot water run on your neck and head. When I have sinus headaches this works wonders for me. I have a hand held shower and I run it on my neck and down my back. I also run it right on the top of my head it takes only a few moments and the headache goes away. 
17.  Eat something, headaches are sometimes caused by hunger. Surprisingly if you eat and wait a half an hour to 45 minutes your headache is gone. 
18.  Take a nap.  I often get this to work together with the hot shower and running hot water on my head. I take the shower and run really hot water on my head, neck and shoulders. Then I lie down and take a nap in a dark, quiet room. When I wake up the headache is gone. 
19.  Take a daily magnesium supplement. My heart doctor recommended this for me as a protection for my heart and it also relieved the migraines I was having.  You can also increase the amount of dark green leafy vegetables you are eating to get more magnesium.  I try and get as many of my vitamins out of food as I can, but the soil is so depleted of nutrients that it is still a good idea to take a supplement especially if you are taking it to get rid of migraines.  Take a  amino acid-chelated magnesium as it is easier to absorb. 
20.  Try and get your mind off the pain. Half of pain is tension and when you think about the pain you can't relax enough to get rid of it. But when you are thinking of something else it melts away. I found  this when I was very ill if I could work on something on the computer or think of something else entirely the pain went away.   Focus on something you really love to do.  (hobbies, movies, the Internet). Spend time with positive friends, pet your cat or dog they help you by sending soothing vibes to you. Dogs and cats accept what is every day. They stay in the day. They can teach us a lot about pain. Have you ever noticed how stoic pets are about pain. They do not worry about tomorrow or the past they stay in the now.   . Do things for other people, there is always someone worse off than you just look around.  . Learn something new every day. 

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