There are about 7.2 million Italians who suffer from migraines, that is 12% of the population: the numbers are truly impressive, if we consider that this percentage rises to 18% if we only consider women.
The headache it is currently the most frequent and widespread neurological disease in developed countries. There are many types of headaches and migraines, many of them very disabling and capable of hindering normal daily life.
Yet effective remedies for headaches come from nature, medicinal plants which can be found in herbal medicine and can be used under the guidance of the herbalist.
THE natural remedies for migraines they come from the past, since even in ancient times it was often nature that gave answers to different types of pain and physical discomfort.
An herbal tea against migraines
In fact, it seems that the infusion of wild strawberry leaves is a panacea for treating migraines. Just let the leaves dry in late summer and use them to prepare an herbal tea that will prove to be a precious remedy.
The cephalic plants
They are called cephalic plants and they are all those plant which prove to be invaluable sedatives against headache. Among these an exceptional place covers lavender with its plurimi benefits and with its calming action on headaches. Its flowers can be used to make an herbal tea or you can use the essential oil of lavender combined with that of almonds to massage the most painful areas; and there are those who also recommend using lavender oil to make fumeggi with boiling water.
Alongside this, orange blossom, thyme, lemon and valerian, wildflower and thyme are also natural plants against migraines.
Certainly the most common and widespread is mint, which has always been known for its beneficial effect on headaches. It seems that the ancients used to rub mint leaves on the temples for cure headache, while today 10 grams of mint essence are mixed together with 10 grams of valerian root tincture. From the mixture obtained, then, 20 drops are taken by dipping a lump of sugar to dissolve in the mouth.
Headache: often a digestive problem
It is now known that headaches are often linked to indigestion problems. For this reason, natural remedies can be:
- drink a glass of water and lemon
- drink tea or coffee, which contain theobromine and theophylline, but without abusing them (an ancient custom has it that for
- to eliminate the headache you have to drink a cup of bitter coffee with lemon zest).
Without forgetting, then, the beneficial effect of plants such as dulcamara, rosemary and hypericum, effective against stress headaches and even against the "hangover".
Headache of muscle origin
Many types of migraine they are due to muscle tension, affecting the neck and shoulders and often radiating pain to the head. In these cases, an infallible plant, to be taken in the form of massaging creams, is the devil's claw, which has analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties.
Ear reflexology: a holistic remedy for headaches
In addition to the herbalist, for heal the headache you can contact a holistic operator, who can recommend the remedy of ear reflexology.
This technique uses the auricle for therapeutic purposes, based on the fact that the reflexes of all organs and parts of the body reach the ear.
By adequately stimulating the nerve and vascular endings in the ear, perhaps with the help of a clothespin, impulses are sent to the brain capable of triggering specific physiological and biochemical phenomena that help restore balance to the part of the body that corresponds to the point. stimulated.
The lobe, in this case, is precisely the ear part that is connected to the head and the heart and it seems that by applying a slight pressure with a clothespin in this point, it benefits for migraines and for the heart.
