Alternative Treatments for Headaches

Borrowed from Real Age by:  Mehmet C. Oz, MD, and Michael F. Roizen, MD
You don't always have to use headache or pain medication when your head is pounding. Try these alternative remedies to prevent or stop a headache:
Try Acupuncture. Acupuncture is as effective as pain drugs for treating migraines and reducing their frequency and severity, by increasing levels of beta-endorphin, a natural painkilling substance in your body
Or Try Acupressure. If you don't like needles, acupressure may be a good way for you to help headache pain. Simply rub the two points on either side of your vertebrae at the nape of your neck (right below the ridges at the base of your skull). Also, try massaging the webbed area on the top of your left hand, between your thumb and forefinger.
Try Omnitrition®'s Ease Spray®!   Ease® is a topical spray that provides fast, temporary relief from common aches and pains! Heidi Whitehair, Buckley, WA- keeps a bottle handy for when she gets a headache. Just spray a small amount of Ease® onto your fingers & rub it into your temples. The headache will be gone in minutes! If your headache stems from the base of your neck, rub into your neck & shoulders.
Try Sex. Women with migraines who abandoned the "not now, I’ve got a headache" phrase got better pain relief from sex than from their usual migraine remedy. And it worked repeatedly. Iit will work for men, too. Orgasm is associated with the release of a vasodilating gas called nitric oxide.
Take some Ginger. It inhibits inflammation in blood vessels, so take it when your headache first comes on.
Tame the "Shoulds". Change irrational beliefs, those ideas typically prefaced with words such as should, ought, must, or have to, that lead to stress and head pain. Replace them with ideas that use words such as wish, want, like, and desire.
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I take these nutritional supplements from Omnitrition® every day & rarely get a headache!
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