Migraine

Migraine is a type of neurological disorder most commonly related to unilateral headache. It is commonly associated to underlying medical conditions connected to digestion, vision, and liver.

A migraine suddenly attacks in the head and neck muscles, as result of prolonged stress and overworking. These muscles tightly squeezed the arteries that obstruct blood flow. The constricted muscle expands and stretches the blood vessel walls when the patient relaxes. The blood pushes through inside these vessels and further expands them during each heartbeat, which causes the intense pain.

A person under an intense mental stresses are often linked to this condition. People who suffer from migraines are usually intelligent, methodical, sensitive, rigid, and they tend to be perfectionists.

Symptoms
Primary symptoms include nausea, pain and vomiting. The blood vessels are pulsating and prominent.

Typically, migraines occur with a warning beforehand. A flash of light or black spots appears in the patient’s sight. Numbness, limping of the arm or leg or one side of the face are also take places. Occasionally, numbness affects the speech when it affects both sides of the face, tongue or the entire mouth. This makes the person slurs or has difficulty in speaking. Digestion is also affected with prolonged migraine.

Migraines take on a pattern that starts with a stinging pain on only one side of the head and spreads out from the eye. The pain may switch from right to left side of the head and vice versa.

It is usually preceded by an initial period of loss of appetite, irritability and depression. Migraine attacks occurs daily for some people, while others experiences it every month, or 2-3 months. Some have migraine attacks only one or twice-in several years.

Causes
Various factors trigger the onset of migraine. This include allergic reactions, excessive drug intake, smoking, and drinking alcoholic beverages, low blood sugar lever, nutritional deficiency, lack of proper sleep and rest, overworking, and sexual indulgence.

Women having their menstrual periods also experiences migraine. It usually occurs after their menopausal period.

Home Remedies
Grapes: Store grape juice in well-preserved bottles. Take several small doses for migraine relief. It’s an effective home remedy that’s been obtained from the Persian royalty.

Niacin: Eat foods that are rich in niacin such as tomatoes, nuts, sunflower seeds, fish, liver, whole wheat, and green leafy vegetables. Vitamin I complex tablets contains 100 mg of niacin are also available.

Cabbage: Crush few cabbage leaves. Wrap in a cloth and place in the forehead during sleep. Repeat in the daylight if convenient. Renew the wraps when the leaves dried out.

Lemon: Ground dried lemon crusts into fine paste. Apply paste on the forehead as a plaster to provide great relief.

Vegetable juices: Mix 200 ml of spinach juice, 300 ml carrot juice to make 500 ml or ½ liter of juices. Another is to mix 100 ml of beet and cucumber juices and 300 ml of carrot juice.

Diets
Undergo an exclusive orange juice and water diet for 2-3 days. If orange juice is not compatible with the patient, carrot, cucumber or celery juices can be used as a substitute. Follow with an exclusive fruit diet for about 5 days. This should consist of 3 meals of fresh succulent fruits.

Have a well-balanced diet consisting primarily of nuts, grains, seeds, and fruits and vegetables afterwards. Take it along with milk, buttermilk, honey, yogurt and vegetable oils. Take another fruit diet at 2-month interval if necessary.

Avoid sugar, pastries, sweets, rice cakes, confectionary, white flour products, pickles, sauces, condiments, and tinned or preserved foods.

Eat small meals instead of the usual larger ones.

Avoid overeating as much as possible.

Drink plenty of water.

Further Suggestions
Administer a warm water enema everyday while undergoing 2-3 days of juice diet.

Take a hot footbath, application of fomentation to the stomach and to the spine, or a cold compress to the head with a heat ranging from 4.5ºC – 15.6ºC.

Apply hot towels several times on the neck as often as you can to relieve migraine.

Take plenty of exercises and breathe fresh air.