Headaches, including migraines can occur from a variety of causes and need treatments on a daily basis. Fortunately, there are few home remedies that can help relieve migraine pain and chronic headaches. Here are some home remedies for chronic headache treatments that you may already have at home.
Lavender Oil
Lavender oil is a very useful home remedy for migraines and headaches, and smells great. Actually, you can either inhale lavender oil or apply it topically. For best headache treatment add 2-4 drops in 2-3 cups of boiling water and inhale the lavender-oil streams. Also, this home remedy can easily be applied externally without to dilute it. Remember that lavender oil should not be taken orally.
Peppermint Oil
Peppermint oil has a gently calming effect and has great benefits for treating tension headaches. This home remedy controls the blood flow in your body and has fresh smell. Headaches and migraines often occur due to poor blood flow, and peppermint oil helps to open and close the vessels that stimulate the flow. Peppermint oil also opens up the sinuses and more oxygen can get into the bloodstream.
Basil Oil
Basil is the strong-scented herb and certain tastes and smells good. Also the basil oil delivered form basil plant can be used as home remedy for natural headache treatments. Basil oil relaxes the tight muscles and is very helpful for treating tension headaches.
Valerian, Wild Lettuce and White Willow Bark
Valerian and wild lettuce are relaxing herbs. It is known that valerian act like a sedative on the nervous system and the brain. White willow bark is an anti-inflammatory herb and contains salicin, which is very similar to aspirin. You can combine these herbs in an ideal balm for treating tension headaches. Remember that you should take no more than 60 milligrams of white willow bark per day or consult with your doctor, because there have been few reported side effects.
Feverfew
Feverfew, as its name suggests, is used to treat fever, but feverfew is a popular herbal remedy used by people who have migraines. Feverfew is used as a preventative treatment for migraine and many people have reported that this herb decreases the frequent migraines.
You can grow feverfew plants and simply pick the leaves which are edible. You can chop up the feverfew leaves and put in a salad or a sandwich. They taste a little bitter, so you can add a little bit honey or sugar.
Flaxseed
Some headaches are caused by inflammation, and they can be easily reduced by consuming omega-3 fatty acids. Flaxseed is rich in omega-3s, so they can help provide headache relief. You can use flaxseed as a home remedy for treating headaches as an oil form or as ground or whole seeds.
Buckwheat
Buckwheat is used as a home remedy for headaches and migraines, because it contains a very powerful flavonoid known as rutin. Flavonoids contain antioxidant properties, which prevent damage to cells.
Healthy diet
For reducing headaches and migraine pain is very important to change your diet. Certain foods affect the frequency and severity of headaches and migraine pain such as dairy product; chocolate; peanut butter; certain fruits (avocado, banana, and citrus); onions; meats with nitrates (bacon and hot dogs); foods that contain monosodium glutamate (MSG); foods that contain tyramine; red vine and fermented foods.