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"Migraines are caused by constriction of the arteries that lead to the brain, although there are a variety of possible underlying causes. (See migraines.) Cluster headaches, a type of migraine, typically cause severe pain around or behind one eye. Sinus headaches are caused by congestion and possibly infection of the sinuses. The pain is usually in the face, spreading from above the eyes to as far as the gum line. A feeling of pressure is common. Persistent headaches without a specific cause may be due to your environment or food intake." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "Classical migraines are relatively rare. These headaches are preceded by a slowly expanding area of blindness surrounded by a sparkling edge; these symptoms can affect up to one-half of the field of vision of each eye. The blindness may resolve after twenty minutes, and is often followed by a severe one-sided headache with nausea, vomiting, hypersensitivity to light, and hypersensitivity to sound. Other temporary neurological symptoms, such as weakness on one side, may also occur. Migraine sufferers usually develop their own coping mechanisms for intractable pain." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "Recommendations include ascertaining the underlying cause or precipitating factors of the migraines, dietary changes to identify and eliminate food allergies, stress management, adequate rest, and supplementation with enzymes and nutrients that may be deficient in the body. Enzymes can also be used to treat inflammation and to improve circulation when symptoms arise, which may be helpful for some migraine sufferers." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "The diseases and symptoms commonly associated with food allergies can include asthma, indigestion, diarrhea, fatigue, canker sores, celiac disease, irritable bowel syndrome, hyperactivity, ear infections, migraines, bed-wetting, acne, eczema, or edema. Many experts advocate rotation diets to identify specific food allergens. Most physicians agree that the simplest and most effective approach to treating food allergies is through the avoidance of eating allergenic foods." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"This is actually being promoted as a cure for migraines, but this is just another example of the preposterous and medically unjustified practices of surgical procedures today. Healing foods for migraines ***** fish ***** celery ***** rye ***** brussels sprouts Healing herbs for migraines ***** guarana ***** skullcap ***** California poppy ***** cumin ***** feverfew ***** ginger ***** anise ***** lemon balm ***** basil ***** mint Products to consider for migraines: *" Foundation Formula (www.ForeverWell." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"The model fails for migraines, too. migraines are another case where lab tests are useless; instead, patients must endure severe pulsing pain over half the head, accompanied by sensitivity to bright light and nausea or vomiting. But at least a definition of migraine exists, and when the symptoms add up to the clinical syndrome we call migraine, your doctor can make a diagnosis. So, too, for autism, schizophrenia, and depression. The general rule is that medical materialism fails when no lab test exists to serve as a marker of a specific disease." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"WARNING SIGN Recently the famous Nurses' Health Study found that women who suffer from migraines that are preceded by a visual aura are at increased risk of heart attack or stroke. Researchers don't yet know if the same is true for men. Paradoxically, some migraine sufferers have a visual aura but not a headache. (Migraines don't always involve head pain.) In addition to eye flashes, this type of migraine—sometimes called ophthalmic migraine (aka silent migraine)—can cause other visual disturbances, as well as nausea and nasal congestion." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Vitamin D and migraines There is little research on the alleviation of migraines using vitamin D therapy, but Mount Sinai Hospital in New York reports that in two individuals who suffered excruciating headaches, "therapeutic replacement with vitamin D and calcium resulted in a dramatic reduction in the frequency and duration of their migraine headaches."143 I observed the same in guests who attended our health resort, where sunlight abounded and good nutrition was the rule. Anecdotally, I have heard from people who reduce the frequency and intensity of migraines by using tanning beds." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"L-arginine might also make migraines worse because of the arterial dilation effect. Phosphatidylcholine (Essential Phospholipids) Cellular membranes function as the interface between the machinery inside of cells and the extracellular fluid that bathes all cells. If all is well, the two-way traffic through the membranes involves nutrients entering to sustain the activities inside while waste products exit. Fats (lipids) and proteins make up the cell membranes." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"People learn to diminish their migraines by changing their pulse rates. PART SIX What You Can Do: Protocols for Heart and Brain Health First, a word of caution. When it comes to protocols, or specific programs, it is important to remember that they are designed to be done in an incremental fashion, under medical supervision. It is stated here in the strongest possible way that you must, you simply must follow this protocol under a holistic physician's supervision, ideally a board-certified cardiologist. Remember, please .. ." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"It is in the class of drugs known as beta blockers, and is mostly used among adults for problems such as high blood pressure, angina pectoris, tachycardia, and migraines. I don't prescribe it very often, and when I do, I always keep looking for the root causes of the rapid heartbeat. Actos is a diabetes medication that I have applied in off-label usage among some children with neurobehavioral disorders. It has shown signs of effectiveness in some children, probably because it is a powerful anti-inflammatory." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Green went on to use biofeedback to help patients cure their own migraines, and it is now an accepted form of therapy.42 Biofeedback is particularly useful to treat Raynaud's disease, a vascular condition in which blood vessels are constricted when exposed to cold, causing extremities to grow cold, pale, and even blue.43 During a biofeedback treatment, a patient is hooked up to a computer." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"I've treated headaches in postmenopausal women, including migraines, that responded really well to IV magnesium, as have many pain clinics. I also recommend 400 milligrams (mg) of magnesium orally once or twice a day for prevention. (And by the way, for a lot of menopausal women who suffered breakthrough headaches on magnesium alone, adding topical progesterone was the solution.) But what is so special about this mineral that I refer to it so often as the unsung hero?" - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Other points useful in people with migraines are the fleshy area between the thumb and forefinger and the area below the bottom of the big toe. Biofeedback is a technique that teaches a person to consciously keep regular bodily processes that are normally involuntary, such as heartbeat, brain waves, blood pressure, and muscle tension. The processes may be monitored by electronic equipment or by natural observation, such as holding a finger over an artery. With practice, the person learns to makes changes on his own." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Hint for migraines: try magnesium, 400-500 mg daily, which has actually stopped chronic migraines in a number of my patients.) There are several classes of anticonvulsant drugs, and only a few are known to cause nutrient depletion: phenytoin (Dilantin), carbamazepine (Tegretol, Carbatrol, Epitrol), primidone (Mysoline), methsuxamide (Celontin), valproic acid (Depakote, Depacon, Depakene), topiramate (Topomax) and gabapentin (Neurontin). Restoring depleted nutrients is particularly important when medications are needed long-term, as these often are." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Some people who have migraines experience auras—flashes of light or zigzag lines—15 to 30 minutes before the headache occurs. migraines also can cause nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light. migraines afflict less than 7 percent of Americans, but between 65 and 75 percent of the people who have migraines are women. "Headache pain in women may be connected to the menstrual cycle," says Sid Gilman, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. "Migraine headaches are much less common after menopause." - the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books, Symptoms: Their Causes & Cures : How to Understand and Treat 265 Health Concerns (Get the book.)

"In several placebo-controlled trials, researchers gave patients magnesium sulfate intravenously, and this eliminated the aura and nausea associated with migraines and reduced head pain partially or completely in 40 to 85 percent of patients. In more than half, relief lasted 24 hours or more. ANSELLA'S FIBROMYALGIA Ansella, sixty-two, had been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia when she first came to see me seven years ago. She also had moderate to severe osteoarthritis in her knees and suffered from headaches and irritable bowel syndrome." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"This includes people who suffer daily migraines. Many people come to me who have had no success with more conventional treatments. After I start them on the feverfew and magnesium, they get a significant reduction in the number of headaches and the severity of pain. Even when they have headaches, they tend to be less frequent and less painful." Feverfew should not be used by pregnant women. Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Most antidepressants are designed to improve serotonin function, and are widely used by autistics, ADHD children, and also kids with depression, eating disorders, migraines, and other problems that are related to serotoniiji. The potential for positive response to antidepressants among autistics is highly variable, and in most cases low doses are best for achieving efficacy and reducing side effects. The most encouraging responses that have been achieved by antidepressants include lessening of repetitive thoughts and behaviors." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"You begin to experience health problems, from minor ones like allergies and endless colds, to migraines and infertility, to full-throttle illnesses such as incurable cancer and dementia. Avoiding the fat-soluble toxins may sound like a solution, but that's difficult to do today. We have considerable exposure to fat-soluble, carbon-containing, toxic chemicals used as solvents, glues, and paints." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"For example, when some people eat the food substance known as tyramine, which is in wine and cheese, it triggers dilation of the blood vessels in their brains, and causes migraines. Another well-known example of food intolerance is lactose intolerance. People tend to think of lactose intolerance as an allergy, but it's not, because it doesn't involve the immune system. It's simply a chemical reaction to lactose, or milk sugar, which occurs among people who don't have enough of the enzymes that are needed to break down lactose." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Mack noted that there was some limited evidence that Neurontin worked for migraines and nerve pain suffered by diabetics. But she said there were no good-quality studies supporting its use for attention deficit disorder, bipolar disorder, restless leg syndrome, or four other conditions doctors were prescribing it for. As many as 95 percent of patients taking Neurontin were getting it for off-label uses, she said. The doctors writing many of those prescriptions appeared to have been swayed by marketing, she said, and not by good science. By the time of Dr." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Women are particularly prone to problems in the pelvis (uterine fibroids and ovarian cysts), rectum (hemorrhoids), liver, gallbladder, breasts, and thyroid, and they often suffer from migraines coming from behind the eye. The Chinese view of liver metabolism is poetic, with descriptions of flowing streambeds into clear tributaries. I use this analogy with patients to describe how their liver breaks down their hormones. If their rivers are clear and moving well, then their flow of hormones will be smooth and free-flowing." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "We all know that hot flashes are a sign of low estrogen, but most women don't realize that low estrogen commonly causes migraines, hair loss, facial hair, and recurring urinary tract infections. How well you age depends a lot on how well your hormones are balanced. Recognize your symptoms and learn why you are having them in order to achieve balance. Our bodies, particularly our hormones, bear the brunt of our lifestyle choices. We are for the most part overstimulated and overworked." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Over the long term, stagnation will give rise to disease along the liver meridian, that is, in the uterus, ovaries, breasts, and thyroid, and give rise to migraines. These diseases can be avoided with improvements in liver health. When I treat liver problems, I use diet as well as herbal combinations and supplements to support Phase 1 and Phase 2 metabolism. Supporting Phase 1 Metabolism During Phase 1, hormones are chopped up into smaller, possibly dangerous, pieces. These pieces, Phase 1 metabolites, are very active and, if oxidized (mixed with oxygen), can form free radicals." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "According to Chinese medicine, symptoms due to liver stagnation include irritability, depression, migraines, PMS, mood swings, atypical chest pains, abdominal bloating, hyperventilation syndrome, fibrocystic breast disease, headache, and irregular menstruation or menstrual cramps. I think of metabolism as the biochemistry of the Chinese liver qi. If qi is flowing smoothly, then metabolism is working well, and the liver meridian and the organs it nourishes, such as the uterus, thyroid, and breasts, will stay healthy." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"This formula says it's for migraines, but it's actually a high-quality, predigested, fermented protein source that's easy for people to assimilate. Believe it or not, many people in Western society actually suffer from a deficiency of usable protein. This product works almost like magic to meet their protein needs. It also just happens to help eliminate various symptomatic diseases such as migraines, Crohn's disease and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Proteolytic Enzymes from www.BaselineNutritionals.com—Taken before each meal, these enzymes assist the body in the digestion and assimilation process." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Diseases particularly susceptible to acute stress-related flare-ups, like asthma, allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, and migraines, respond very well to what we call Intensive Bliss Therapy in which you draw your attention to what's positive. In addition to dealing with stress, Bliss Lists can also help you deal with pain. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF PAIN At seventy-two, Gabriella has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for almost forty years. With multiple joint replacements, she refers to herself as "Bionic Woman." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

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