There are different types of headaches. Migraine headaches are often very painful and it happens due to the expansion and contraction of blood vessels.
Common Symptoms:
- Pounding headache
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Sensitivity
Common Causes:
- Food Allergies
- Food Chemicals
- Anxiety
- Stress
- Smoking
- Strong odour
Home Remedies:
- Drink Camomile Tea
- Drink Ginger Tea or chew a small ginger piece
- Apply lavender oil on the temples and forehead
- Apply peppermint oil on the temples and forehead
- Apply pressure with your fingers on the migraine-specific spot
Natural food Supplements:
- Vitamin C
- Magnesium
- Vitamin B Complex
Vitamin C rich food:
- Peppers
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Brussels sprouts
- Cauliflower
- Kale
- Potato
- Bok Choy
- Sweet potato
- Asparagus
- Turnip greens
- Tomato
- Guava
- Papaya
- Kiwifruit
- Orange
- Lychee
- Strawberries
- Pineapple
- Grapefruit
- Clementine
- Cantaloupe
- Mango
- Avocado
- Tangerine
- Grain Products
- Milk and Alternatives
Magnesium Rich Food:
- Spinach
- Swiss chard, cooked
- Soy beans, cooked
- Okra, cooked
- Cereals
- Quinoa, cooked
- Legumes (dried beans, peas and lentils), cooked
- Peas, cooked
- White kidney Beans
- chickpeas
- Lentils, cooked
- Pumpkin seed
- Brazil nuts
- Sunflower seed
- Almonds
- Cashews
- Pine nuts
- Flaxseed
- Sesame seed
- Peanuts
- Hazelnuts
Vitamin B Complex rich food:
- Potato, with skin, cooked
- Sweet potato, with skin, cooked
- Carrot juice
- Balsam-pear/bitter gourd, bitter melon, cooked
- Banana
- Durian
- Prune juice
- Avocado
- Grain Products
- Wheat bran
- Cereal
- Oatmeal, instant, cooked
- Milk and Alternatives This food group contains very little of this nutrient.
- Legumes (dried beans, peas and lentils)
- Chickpeas/garbanzo beans, cooked
- Soybeans, mature, cooked
- Beans, pinto, cooked
- Lentils, cooked
- Nuts and Seeds
- Pistachios, without shell
- Sunflower seeds, without shell
NOTE: Natural Remedies are NOT a substitute for proper doctor’s diagnosis or medication. It may or may not have medicinal properties that treat or cure the disease or ailment in question.