Home and Natural Remedies for Chronic Headaches

This is only for the headaches, which you are sure not because of any serious causes like tumor along with vision impacts or due to damage of any nerves. If you have any of the serious causes, then need to get treated from a proper doctor.

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But 90% of people get headache due to some other circumstances, which can be treated in home.

Here are few causes for headaches and remedies for them.

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Causes and Symptoms

1.       Exposed too much in hot sun can bring you headache. The symptom is, you will feel uneasy and blurred vision, after returning from outside, where you got exposed to direct sun for a long time. It is also termed as sun stroke.

2.       Stress and anxiety are major sources to get you headache.

3.       Constipation is another one main cause for headache. If your digestive system is not functioning properly, then the wastes will remain in the body, causing stress and pressure, leading to headache.

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4.       Not drinking enough water, produces excess heat in body and that leads to constipation as well as headache.

5.       Consumption of junk food and fried food items can lead to headache and constipation.

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6.       Excess travel and lack of sleep to can cause you headache.

7.       Cold and allergies also bring you headache.

8.       Eyes exposed to bright light.

9.       Loud and irritating noises.

10. Use of excessive drugs.

11.   Headache is another symptom of menopause.

 Here are few home Remedies for Headache

1.       Drink plenty of water and this solves plenty of health problems including headache.

2.       Avoid coffee and any caffeine related food items.

3.       Coconut and sugar candy mixed equally can help curing your headache.

4.       Don’t smoke and drink, as it will aggregate your problem.

5.       Applying fresh sandalwood paste in the forehead will help curing headache, due to excess heat.

6.       For those who have headache due to stomach problems like constipation, Hot fomentation will help.

7.       Drinking warm water, with a teaspoon of honey mixed in the morning in empty stomach helps curing chronic headache. It is also believed to reduce obesity.

8.       Don’t get expose to direct sun. If you cannot avoid such a situation, take precautions like wearing a sun glass, having a head scarf, using an umbrella, applying sun lotion, etc…

9.       Watermelon is one good remedy for headache due to heat.

10.   Inhaling warm water vapors and steaming will help to reduce headache due to cold and nasal block. Adding holy basil leaves or its oil will be more effective.

11.   Doing yoga, asanas and meditation will relax your mind and body and will help to cure headache due to stress and anxiety.

12.   Applying grounded paste of cloves in the forehead also helps to get rid of headache.

13.   Morpheme Brahmi is one herbal medicine which can cure headache. My mother-in-law also used to tell that it helps in sharpening brain activities and good for kids to improve memory power.

14.   Enema to get rid of constipation can also solve the headache.

15.   Watermelon seed grinded together with equal amount of Cuseus grass (khas khas) and consumed 2 to 3 grams twice a day will help curing headaches.

16.   It is believed that 2-3 drops of cow’s butter or pure ghee in the nostrils help to get rid of sinus and headache due to that.

17.   Keeping cotton dipped in rosewater above the eye lids, and lying in a comfort position with eyes closed for an hour will help your eyes to relax and cure your headache due to over strain to eyes.

18.   Avoid loud music and noise to get your headache reduce.