Is there a alternative medicine for migraine headaches.?

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Keko	Muscles get knots called trigger points. These make the muscles tight causing them to press on nerves and other thing. Pain can be referred from places other than the head. #1 The first thing is to take a couple swigs of molasses or eat a couple of bananas. They contain magnisium and Potassium both of which muscles need. #2 WATER she should be drinking 1/2 gallon minimum. The head of neurology at UCDavis likens a body running low on water to a car running low on oil (the engine can seize). Get a good (deep tissue) massage (to Loosen the trigger points) on the back, shoulders and neck. Make sure to press up at the base of the skull where it meets the spine. You rub or lightly scratch everywhere on your head. You will hit spots that are tender these are trigger points. The idea is to rub across them 6-12 times per session up to six times per day until they go away. For more information on trigger points read The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Davies. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

purple_haze_0001	I used to get migraines all the time. I went to the doctor and had lots of tests ran, and they said there was no reason for the migraines. They called them stress related, which is what they call anything they can't figure out. Anyway... they said they couldn't give me anything for them. I found this stuff called Fever Few. You can buy it at GNC. Take 4 pills with something hot like coffee or hot tea. It works for me everytime! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

sapphire_630	try fever few or white Willow GNC should have a formula for migraines cut out caffeine keep lights low when possible take hot baths to help stress and aches Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

dolphinnut798	we need a little more information. How old is your daughter and what is the current med he has her on? Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

j.k.fan	try cayne pepper pills, they wont stop the migraine but they do help them from being so bad, and they are less than $10 over the counter in the herbal supplement aisle. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

pinklady6857	Pure Peppermint Oil from a health food store just might work, i use to get migraines all the time and i don't have them anymore, you only need one drop as it is highly concentrated, put some on the forhead and behind the ears. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

titanic	please please do this i was diagnosed with severe migraines at the age of 10 and i tried everything for about 3 months missed a huge amount of school tried everything that is out there and finally my mom got some information about acupuncture and i went to do it at chicagos china town but you can probably find it anywhere and when i got it done which is painless puff no migraines like that magic amazing some say its bogus or corney but im a 15 year old so it means something and you have no idea how bad my migraine condition was now i only maybe get a migraine 1 every 3 months or something or less than that but everyone get a headache anyways PLEASE DONT BLOW THIS OFF IT WILL HELP AND ITS LESS THAN 400 I BELIEVE IT WAS AROUND 50 AND ITS pAiNlEsS Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Just Me Alone	Ginger helps me. My doctor gave me a vitamin regimen once. It included calcium With Vitamin D, coq10, vitamin B1, and Magnesium. I don't remember his exact recommended amounts of each but you could try giving her the minimums on the bottles and see how she does or ask her doctor. That worked really well and made me feel better all around. The prescription meds are supposed to be great but they just made me sick. Also, check out "Food: Your Miracle Medicine" by Jean Carper. She has a lot of good information about headaches and migraines and what trigger foods to avoid. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Fizzle	There are two remedies she could try if she can feel them coming on (aura). The first one is spicy gumbo, or any spicy hot soup. The other one is to sip a carbonated beverage. It seems to work by redirecting pain. The carbonated beverage was a bartender's remedy, and it was beer but the alcohol wasn't what helped. He said the man should sip it, which means he was getting the full feel of the carbonation. Carbonation is felt as pain, which doesn't surprise me because I knew a girl taking those heavy drugs and she couldn't taste carbonation. So I'd suggest either or both of those, and I'd probably carry a small bottle of tabasco sauce and a small can of seltzer water if I were a migraine sufferer. I'd keep hot peppers in the refreigerator, too. As far as the pills, I assume she'd only take them if she gets a migraine. You might only want to buy two or three to see if they work first, and to have them on hand if the other remedies don't work. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Soul Doctor	Homeopathy for HEADACHES, MIGRAINES, SINUSITUS (Without any side effects or complications) :- HEADACHE :- With constant nausea; clean tongue Ipecac 30X, 3 hourly With severe throbbing and rush of blood towards head Belladonna 30X, 3 hourly Due to over eating; stomach disorders; tongue thickly whitish coated; worse bathing specially after river bathing Antim Crud 30X or 200 4 hourly(3 Doses) Due to exposure to dry, cold wind; sudden with anxiety Aconite Nap.30X or 200X, 1/2 hourly (3 Doses) With watering of eyes and sensitiveness to bright light Euphrasia 30X, 3 hourly Headache; better by bending backwards; due to nerve injury Hypericum 30X, 3 hourly Headache with humming in ears; due to nervous weakness Kali Phos.6X or 30X, 3 hourly Hammering headache; worse during menstrual cycle going in sun; school girls Natrum Mur.30X or 200X, 4 hourly Headache starts from nape of neck and shift over to the head; patient desires to lie down quietly; better passing urine Gelsemium 30X or 200X, 3 hourly Violent headache due to working under gas light; sun-stroke Glonoine 6X or 30X, 2 hourly Bursting headache; worse by stooping and movements; excessive thirst and constipation Bryonia 30X or 200X, 3 hourly (6 Doses) Nervous headache; after grief, disappointment; worse inhaling smoke Ignatia 200X or 1M, 3 hourly (3 Doses) Headache; due to sinusitis, pressure and pain at the root of nose Kali Bich 30X, 4 hourly Due to eating rich fatty food, loss of thirst, better in open cold air Pulsatilla 30X, 4 hourly Due to eye strain; disturbances of accomodation of eye sight Ruta Grav 30X, 4 hourly After taking alcoholic drinks; sedentary habits; chilly patient Nux Vomica 30X, 4 hourly Sun haedcahe; aggravation from sun rise to sunset; from cardiac origin Kalmia Lat.30X or 200X, 6 hourly Of school children; crushing headache, pressure on top of head Acid Phos 30, 4 hourly Headache localised; at the nape of neck; worse by walking and noise Pneumococcin 200X, 10 min (3 Doses) Frontal headache; neuralgic pain above and behind the right eye; heaviness of head. Better by rest, lying down and eating Penicillinum 30X or 200X, 10 min (3 Doses) Headache worse early morning;empty gone sensation at 10 -11 A.M. Sulphur 200X or 1M, weekly (3 Doses) MIGRAINES :- From mental work; cold, uncovering head, pressure, sitting upright or sun-stroke Glonoinum 30X, 3 hourly For nervous, gastric, bilious individuals. Migraine due to mental over exertion in teachers and students. Right sided, specially Sunday migraine, blurred vision, hemiopia; blindness; often burning pain in entire gastro-intestinal tract with violent acid vomiting at the height of attack; worse hot weather; spring and fall; better after vomiting or sufficient night sleep Iris v.200X or above, 10 min (3 Doses) For irritable hypochondriacs of bad temper; cholerics, neuropathics; from abuse of alcohol, coffee, spices, tobacco, vexation and worry, mental over exertion, business worries, sexual excesses, sedentary habits, cold dry air and winds Nux Vomica 30X or 200X 4 hourly For pronounced vasomotor individuals (irritable and full of fear) during pre-climacteric and menopausal stage.Tired expression, head congestion, circumscribed red cheeks; pain above right eye, throbbing, stitching, rhythmic pain, often in every 8 days, early morning, beginning in nape, extending upwards, locating in the region of eye, rising and falling with the sun; sensation of heavy congestion Sanguinaria C 200X, 10 min (3 Doses) For weak, fat and irritable patient; often apathetic, changing moods, strange changes of character (egocenteric), memory weak, due to disturbance during climacteric period, results of tobacco abuse. Person with shallow complexion, yellow saddle across the nose; pain located on left temple; throbbing, stitching pains Sepia 200X, 10 min (3 Doses) For neuropathic persons, full of fear caused by noises, change of weather or worms; with face pale, located above left eye; specially left pupil (ciliary neuralgia); sharp,shooting, tearing, stitching, periodical pain from occiput to left eye; slowly rising in intensity with sun. Bile vomiting at the height of attack, slowly improving with setting sun.feeling as if head were open along sagittal suture Spigelia 200X or 1M, 10 min (3 Doses) Left sided; worse during and after sleep; before menstruation; heat;during menopause Lachesis 200X or 1M, 10 min (3 Doses) Intercurrent remedy Bacillinum 200X or 1M, fortnightly (3 Doses) . SINUSITIS :- Right sided frontal sinusitis; discharge thick, yellowish; worse by cold,damp and exertion Penicillinum 30X or 200X, 6 hourly Sinusitis after mastoid operation Helka lava 3X or 6X, 4 hourly In acute or chronic sinusitis; catarrh with stringy discharge Kali Bich 30X 4 hourly Tearing pain in head; from root of nose, extending to forehead with nausea; dryness of mucous passages Natrum Mur 30X, 4 hourly Pain begins at the back of head and settles over the eyes; worse under a fan Silicea 1M, weekly (6 Doses) Chronic cold with loss of smell and yellow green phlegm; better in cool, open air Pulsatilla 30X or 200X 4 hourly Intercurrent remedy Bacillinum 200X or 1M fortnightly (3 Doses) Complaints worse early morning; aversion to take bath Sulphur 200X weekly (3 Doses) Feel free to email me if you do not understand anything or if you want to discuss anything. Take Care and God Bless you ! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

BeehiveHoney	I've probably tried every alternative migraine cure out there: cut out caffeine, kava Kava, st john's wort, cut out sugar, etc. etc. None of them worked. When I get a migraine I start with Excedrine migraine. If its not too bad that works. Otherwise I take Imitrix. I know its wicked expensive but its the only thing that actually works for me. If I try to not take any meds I get completely disabled and vomit uncontrollably when I get a migraine. Then its an emergency visit to the hospital for a shot of Demerol and I sleep for 18hrs. Check into different insurance plans. Some cover all or nearly all the cost for prescription migraine meds. If you don't have insurance check with the DHS or your county health department. Good luck. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No