Almost everyone have experienced headaches or chronic migraines at one time or another, most of which cannot be cured completely. Finally, they go to Chinese medicine for help. In fact, treating headaches or migraines is the strength of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM).
To relieve pain, you must first find out the cause of the headache. People with headaches usually have the following 5 bad habits:
- Takingthe pressure on yourself;
- Poor posture: bowing and leaning forward;
- Eating frozen food;
- Shampoo without drying;
- Overworked.
Tips to help you relieve pain, making you quickly get rid of headaches
- Headache due to stress : Press 1 acupoint on the foot to relieve pains in 3 seconds.
People who put stress on themselves are most prone to migraines. This kind of headache is very severe, it feels like the eyes are protruding, the pain is so painful that you want to hit the wall, accompanying with nausea and vomiting and being afraid of light and noise. The pain need to be relieved by taking painkillers.
Don’t worry, the pain can be relieved in 3 seconds through pressing a acupoint “ Qiu Xu acupoint (GB 401)”.
Location: On the outside of the foot, in front of and below the tip of the lateral malleolus.
How to do: Pressing the point on the left foot can stop the headache on the right side; pressing Qiuxu Point on the right foot can stop the headache on the left side.
- Headache due to improper posture: Improve the blood flow to the cervical spine
Improper posture is the most common cause of headaches. It can cause the neck muscles and the sides of the head to be pulled all the time when you star at computer for a long time or lean your head forward.
For this type of headache, the pain can naturally be relieved as long as the neck problem is solved, the blood circulation is smoothed, and the wrong posture is corrected.
- Headachedue to eating frozen food: Drink water at the prime time to drain the body of moisture
The third habit that causes headaches is eating ice and drinking cold drinks. Cold things can damage the internal organs and make the spleen’s dysfunction of metabolizing water. In TCM, the spleen is in charge of dampness. When the waste and toxins cannot be excreted in the spleen, It cause dampness become heavier and cause wet headache, accompanied by symptoms of heavy head.
The time from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm is the seasonal time of the bladder meridian and the kidney meridian. By taking this time to drink some water properly, it can drive the circulation in the body and drain the water in the bladder and kidney meridians. These two meridians work together to strengthen the ability to invigorate the kidneys and divert water, and can improve the headaches caused by eating frozen food.
- Headachedue to wind-cold-damp: Relieve the pain quickly by massaging 2 acupoints on the hand.
The fourth bad habit is not drying your hair after washing, and the headaches caused by this condition are maddening. In addition, when the air-conditioning is turned on in the working environment, the wind from the air-conditioning holes blows directly to the head and neck, which is also likely to cause headaches. This is because wind, cold and dampness enter the head and slow down the circulation of blood and qi.
To quickly eliminate wind-cold-damp headache and clear the mind, you can massage the “Hegu Point” and “Lieque Point” on the hand.
How to find Hegu Point?
The horizontal line of the thumb of one hand is buckled on the tiger’s mouth of the other hand, and the position pointed by the tip of the thumb is Hegu acupoint.
Put the tiger’s mouth of both hands against each other, place the index finger of one hand on the back of the wrist of the other hand, and the depression pressed by the tip of the index finger is the Lieque point. Traditional Chinese medicine speaks of “head and face Hegu income”, while Lie Que specializes in tilting the head. Hegu plus Lie Que can cure all diseases of the head and face. Especially migraines improve quickly.
- Headachedue to tiredness: Pain relief can bey relieved by 1 soup or 1 tea.
The headache due to tiredness occurs in women from time to time. Women play multiple roles in the modern society, struggling to balance work and family. It make them feel tired, headache and dizziness.
Some women have severe headaches and even vomiting in about 1 week before the physiological cycle. It is because of the problem of transportation on the spleen and stomach. When you were weak in Qi and blood, it can cause you comfortable in the headache if there is no enough Qi and blood in the body.
At this time, when you feel headaches or dizzy, a soup called “milkfish head soup” can calm down and relieve the pain, and it taste delicious. The recipe is:
Ingredients: milk fish heads with tofu.
The most important thing for this soup is fish head and gastrodia, while codonopsis and other drugs can nourish the spleen and stomach. These drugs can get up to the head, which improve the head problems, so that headaches can be eased a lot.
You can also drink “red dates ginger tea” and cook tea with ginger, brown sugar, red dates and cinnamon. The cinnamon has a warm effect and can “attract qi to the Yuan”, so that all Qi can reach the most important part of the body – life gate and kidney. The soup can function with blood supplement and rosy, and the condition of headache will disappear.
Relieving headache from the foot: Walking healthy trail to massage feet soles
In Chinese medicine, it treat headache from the foot If the whole head is painful. There is an easy -to -use acupoint “Yongquan Point”, which is at the bottom of the feet.
Usually you can take a walk on the healthy trail, letting the stone on the road stimulating the bottom of the feet including Yongquan acupoints, foot points and heels. By doing so, you can feel that the headache is much better immediately. The reason is that the qi of the head is too strong to cause headaches. Once stimulating the feet, the qi goes down and the symptoms will be cured.
By the way, the most important thing is to have relaxing mood and have more patience in everything. It is easy to say goodbye to headaches.
Shanghai Medical Clinic specialize in the treatment of various pains in natural ways including acupuncture, tuina massage, guasha, cupping and Chinese herbs. Please feel free to contact us by phone or make an appointment if you hope to know more about how to treat headache or migraines with TCM. #TCM #acupuncture #acupuncturedubai #herbalmedicine
