Migraine :Causes And Remedies

A migraine is a terrible headache that tends to recur and is often accompanied by a feeling of nausea . The pain is usually felt on one side of the head .One may experience flashing lights, zigzag lines, bright spots, partial loss of vision, numbness or tingling in the head, tongue or face. Moving around makes the headache worse. While no medical tests confirm migraine, the diagnosis is generally made on the above-mentioned symptoms.

Many doctors think that migraine is a vascular disorder caused by a tightening (constriction) and sudden opening (dilation) of the blood vessels in the head, neck or scalp. Others believe that an abnormal release of neuro-chemicals in the brain, such as serotonin or noradrenaline may cause the throbbing pain of the migraine .In Ayurveda, two conditions, known as Ardhaavabheda (meaning literally the unilateral pain) and Anantavaata resemble the classical migraine.

Causes:

• Stress and time pressure, major hassles, anger frustration, depression and conflict.
• Excessive relaxation and positive feelings such as excitement.
• Smells and fumes, tobacco smoke, light glare or dazzle, weather changes and high altitude.
• Onset of puberty in girls, monthly periods, birth control pills, pregnancy, delivery, estrogen therapy and menopause.
• Motion and travel
• Too much, too little interrupted sleep.
• Hunger or fasting.
• Excessive activity (especially if you are not in good health)


Ayurvedic Remedies

• Hold an ice-pack to your forehead or temples to reduce your pain.
• Lie down in quite, dark room.
• Take a juice of Tinospora cordifolia (guduchi) in doses of 10 ml with honey.
• Apply a paste made of black pepper and rice with the juice of bhringraaja on the forehead. Alternately, you can apply the paste of sandalwood also.
• Drop some ghee, medicated with saffron flowers (kesar) into each nostril and inhale deeply.


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