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When headaches or migraine strike, long-term answers might as well be on the other side of the moon. We need immediate relief, and if we don't wish to take drugs or take many drugs, bodily techniques can help alleviate these unwelcome symptoms.
As well as breathing, one of the things that goes haywire during a headache is our internal thermostat. The head feels very hot as more and more blood rushes through the dilating blood vessels to our brains. Changing the body's temperature helps.
There are two ways to approach this, depending on where you are when the problem arises and what resources are available to you at the time: 1) heat up the rest of the body or 2) chill the affected area.
Get into hot water
Headaches generally involve an increase in the blood supply to the brain. Warming the rest of the body helps relieve the pressure on the brain by creating demand for attention from more distant parts of your body like your hands and feet. There's nothing that does this better than a hot bath. If you can bathe in a darkened room, so much the better (a shower may also help, but not nearly as much.)
If you have it, put a little aromatic oil into the hot bath water to encourage you to breathe deeply and relax. Use eucalyptus, marjoram, lavender, Olbas Oil, or even a little Vicks Vapo Rub; some advocate neroli or geranium oils. I think it's down to personal preference.
No access to a bath? Try sitting with your hands in two basins of water - one as hot as you can stand it without scalding, one as cold. Use a little aromatic oil in the water, as mentioned above - and cover the basins and your head with a big towel. Stay still for as long as you can.
You may also try putting your feet into a basin of hot water - again, as hot as you can safely stand.
Whether in the bath or using the basins, breathe deeply to a slow count of ten, being sure to breath out as fully as you breathe in. As you breathe out, notice where your body is holding tension - and let it go. Try to "send" the pain out through your hands or feet into the water.
If you stay this way for ten to twenty minutes, you'll be surprised how much relief it brings. Applying a drop of your preferred essential oil on the temples or under the nose will provide a plus.
Or maybe, chill out
Conversely, cooling the head and neck with ice packs - kept in the freezer for emergencies - helps too.
Use gel-packs rather than hard ice packs - they can be wrapped around the affected area more effectively. Ice cubes or crushed ice secured in a plastic bag make an inexpensive alternative. A bag of frozen peas will do in a pinch or if you're away from home. All should be applied to the part of the head and neck that hurts for a minimum of fifteen minutes. Rest as far as possible away from noise and bright light. Be sure you keep your skin protected from direct contact with surface of the ice. In all cases, breathe deeply.
Last words
Our brains are 70-something percent water, so they say. The natural "air conditioning" system of the brain requires constant replenishment. Somehow or other we forget that - it's easy to get dehydrated.
Exercise, hot weather, dieting, consuming alcohol, tea or coffee - all increase dehydration. At certain times of day like mid-morning or late afternoon simply drinking a glass of water can prevent a headache. If you're clubbing or travelling, do take extra care to drink enough water to keep the fluid balance of your body "in the zone." None of us wants to lose our precious leisure time to headaches or migraine - heaven knows we have little enough of it! If headache does hit while you're out, the wisest path may be to stop and rest with a bottle of water, preferably away from the sun/heat/noise.
But remember: a headache isn't your enemy - it's feedback from your body that something isn't right. The more you learn about what causes your headaches, the less vulnerable you will be to getting them. Do think about it - because prevention is always far better than cure.
© 2011 Alexandra Brunel, all rights reserved.
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Ringworm treatment home remedies, will you use these? If you are one of the estimated twenty percent of our population who is infected with ringworm, chances are you have, at some point, considered using home remedies to treat ringworm.
In my search to find the most effective ringworm treatment that's available out there, I recently posted a question in Yahoo Answers about home remedies "that actually work," to find out from real people, like you and me, what cure they would actually recommend. The question drew quite a few answers and these only prompted me to dig deeper into this topic.
After some more research in the internet and asking friends for their ringworm treatment "family secret recipe," I got a better insight into what folks would consider as fast and effective remedies. Prepare to be fascinated and surprised. All of the ingredients mentioned are ordinary household items some of us would never remotely equate with anti fungal medication.
Oh, yes, before I show you the list, a quick reminder. Ringworm, despite it's name, is not caused by worms. It is an infection caused by mold-like fungi known as dermatophytes. It is contagious and can be spread through direct skin contact with an infected person, an infected pet, or an infected object or surface. So, if you have an itsy-bitsy spot of ringworm, refrain from scratching it. The fungi will cling to your hands and you're liable to spread the infection to other parts of your body or worse, to other family members. And about contaminated objects - never share personal items with anyone. Clothes, caps, shoes, brushes, anything can be a carrier of infection. A friend of mine who has a three year old cute little daughter named Tracy, once brought home a bunch of second-hand toys from some garage sale. She thought she made a juicy bargain - the toys were still intact and the battery-operated talking doll actually still talked. To her chagrin, little Tracy had a rash outbreak the very next day, which her pediatrician later diagnosed to be ringworm. Lesson is you can't see fungi (well except under black light or Wood's lamp - they glow), so be careful in handling unfamiliar objects.
But enough of this. On to the list. If you want to read more thoroughly about ringworm and ringworm treatment, just got to my site. Please click the link at the bottom of this page.
First home-spun ringworm treatment - use of ordinary kitchen vinegar and a penny. Soak the penny in the vinegar and rub on the affected area. Some even recommend taping the penny to the ringworm spot. Others use vinegar without the penny. The reasoning of those who use the penny-vinegar combo is that the vinegar reacting with the copper actually serves as an effective fungi-killer.
The next home remedy, and this was suggested by a girl named "loveme..." in Yahoo Answers, was to use diluted bleach. Using q tips, you apply the bleach solution to the affected area until it dries out. Some suggested the ratio of one part bleach to six part water as the ideal concoction err...solution. Other people rashly recommend pure bleach for the treatment but a lot of people correctly pointed out that unadulterated bleach from the bottle is a very powerful agent and may contain lye (sodium hydroxide) that can cause severe chemical burns and scarring. Just swim and soak in a chlorinated swimming pool, if you want to get the benefit of bleach in treating skin infections.
Another fascinating folk remedy is the "paper method." People who use this, burn a crumpled sheet of notebook paper in a porcelain plate, and use the ashes or residue as salve for ringworm treatment. Imagine that.
Still another bizarre home cure is the use of colorless nail polish. Directions: apply a thin layer of nail polish on the affected area. Allow to dry and peel off with tweezers or wash with soap. Those who practice this method believe it "suffocates" the fungi and attest that their infection dried up the next day. Others suggest colored nail polish work just as well as the colorless type.
A guy from Canada vouched for sea salt as the ultimate ringworm treatment. Evidently, this gent worked in an airport and caught the infection from the counter surface he usually leans on at work. The ringworm spread throughout his body, including his face, and the poor bloke suffered for one whole year with it. After repeated (and costly) visits to his doctor, the recommended antifungal creams finally managed to clear out the ringworm in his body but not the lesions in his face. That's when he discovered the remedy of using sea salt. He rubbed a handful of watery salt into the affected areas in his moistened face for thirty minutes and repeated the process several times. The guy swears his ringworm dried up the very next morning. Sea salt or sea water, that's the ticket, he said.
Other items mentioned as effective medication are tobacco and Vicks Vapor Rub (suggested by "Rosie" in Yahoo Answers). Of course, a lot of medicinal herbs and plants were cited as effective cure too, but I will discuss these in another essay. Black walnut, grape fruit seed extract, fig leaf juice, and tea tree oil are a few of these natural remedies mentioned.
Would I recommend any of these home-grown ringworm remedies? Not today. It's the human body we're talking about here, after all. Caution should be the rule of thumb. There's no denying that many of these simple home cures actually work - for some people. But each of us has our own peculiar set of physiological traits and allergies, quite different from the next John or Jane Doe. Our bodies, or to be more specific, our skins react differently to different substances. What I'm saying is that the home-spun ringworm treatment that worked for your neighbor might not actually work for you.
If there's anything that I'd use myself, apart from the usual over-the-counter anti fungal medications, it's the natural ringworm treatment method. Using plant extracts. Green all the way. One hundred percent natural, one hundred percent organic. Tea tree oil, in particular. Numerous scientific studies have already established the efficacy of tea tree oil in treating ringworm. Powerful antiseptic, peerless anti fungal agent. And because it's natural - lesser chance of adverse allergic reactions for you. For a discussion about a company that produces natural ringworm treatment products in a modern world-class facility, please visit my site, link shown below.
Or you can always take a one-week vacation and hit the nearest ocean resort (sea salt or sea water, remember?) and have a week of fun, relaxation, and ringworm treatment.
You will loads of people recommending Vicks Vapor Rub for toenail infection. Some studies claim that if the ointment is used regularly, it works like a charm. However, there are other testimonials which contradict these studies. These testimonials claim that this ointment has no medical backup to its success, and is ineffective in curing the ailment.
Although it's true that there is no concrete evidence to the healing abilities of Vicks Vapor Rub, it's a known fact amongst many households that Vicks Vapor Rub can be an effective tool to fight toenail fungus. Vicks contains an ingredient called as menthol which kills the fungus on contact. Some individuals believe that Vicks Vapor Rub is effective on thin nails only, especially children nails. Also, there are individuals who voice their opinion that this treatment can result into discoloration of the nail. The nail may turn yellowish. However, the yellowish color should not be a big worry as it will disappear automatically once the fungus fades away.
Usually, Vicks therapy is quite cheaper in comparison to other remedies. Most importantly, it's much safer way to deal with the problem as long as all the precautionary measures are in place. One simply needs to rub the Vicks Vapor Rub on the infected area. It's recommended that one rubs it nicely even at the base and at the top of the nail so that it sticks there, and penetrates deep into the toenail.
Toenail fungus can be stubborn, which is why one needs to have patience with this treatment. It may take time for the infection to cure. With home remedies like Vicks Vapor Rub, you have nothing to lose. There is no bad in giving it a try, despite all the contradictory claims revolving around it.
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