Tuesday, July 30, 2013 by: J. D. Heyes
(NaturalNews) Headaches. They are day-killers. You can't concentrate at work and you can't get anything done at home. All you can do is suffer until it goes away.
More than 30 million Americans suffer from migraines - or one person in some 25 percent of U.S. households - and three out of four of them are women. But if you're not into ibuprofen, Tylenol, Bayer or any of the other multitudes of over-the-counter remedies for keeping headaches and migraines at bay - because you care about what you put into your body - don't sweat it. Here are four natural remedies you can use to alleviate your suffering and get on with your day:
Use a cold or hot compress. Experts aren't sure why this works but, says Dr. Brian Grosberg, assistant professor of neurology and director of Inpatient Headache Program at Montefiore Headache Center in Bronx, N.Y., but many people say they don't need to try anything else.
"It's hard to study something like that," Grosberg told Fox News. "It can have a placebo effect, or it can have a distracting effect on the patient. But a lot of patients swear by it.
Lots of people rely on the herb feverfew. This herb, known as Tanacetum parthenium, has been utilized for centuries as a sort of folk remedy for headaches and migraines, as well as pain and fever. "It became especially popular in England in the 1980s as an alternative to conventional drugs for migraines," writes Cathy Wong, an alternative medicine contributor at About.com.
Notes Eric Yarnell at DiscoveryHealth.com, "English herbalist John Gerard declared in 1633 that feverfew is 'very good for them that are giddie in the head.' A century later, herbalist John Hill noted that 'in the worst http://www.naturalnews.co... , this herb exceeds whatever else is known.'"
Experts say feverfew contains certain compounds known as parthenolides, "which appear to control expansion and contraction of blood vessels in the head," writes Yarnell. "When you begin to get a migraine, your brain releases the neurotransmitter serotonin, and your blood vessels contract."
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Maintain this concentration for 30 seconds.
I got this remedy from 'The Last Whole Earth Catalog". It has been effecient more than 1000 times, even on those who are sceptical. Try it!
