10 Tips to Relieve Headaches

Do you carry painkillers in your bag? Do you endure a headache, or do you ask others to endure your bad temper when you have a headache? Did I do something wrong accidentally to get such a headache? In addition to taking medicine, are there other better ways to relieve pain?
Yes! CureheadacheThe best way to avoid taking medicine that damages the liver, kidneys and stomach is to start from three aspects: stretching and relaxing, improving circulation, and changing your mind. Below I provide 10 ways to relieve headaches, and I hope everyone can become their own good doctor.
1. Turn your head and wrap your shoulders
Most of the headache patients I see are those with muscle contraction. When I gently press behind their ears, they scream in pain. People who stare at the screen too hard for too long, look down at their phones too hard and too seriously, and those who are under great pressure at work or in life are more likely to experience this kind of pain than others.
I taught them to do this: sit firmly, put your feet on the ground, breathe in and out slowly, rotate your head, 21 times each in counterclockwise and clockwise. Keep your chin as close to your neck as possible when you move it downward. Then relax the muscles around your eyes, make a fist, and use your knuckles to scrape the brow bone, eyebrows, eye ends, and cheekbones below the eye sockets. Finally, stretch your shoulders, and do 21 times forward and backward to rotate your shoulders. 3 to 5 minutes, the effect of relieving headaches is very good, faster than taking painkillers and waiting for half an hour.
In addition, some headaches and cramps are caused by pulsating during exercise. If the cause is too intense exercise or too much blood vessel contraction after not exercising for a long time, remember to do head turning, shoulder rotation, head-to-toe stretching and other warm-up exercises for more than 10 minutes so that all cells in the body receive the notification that "it's time to start exercising" so that you don't have to worry about getting a headache or vomiting in the middle of exercise. (Recommended reading: 5-minute shoulder and neck relaxation)
2. Lift the ears
Pull, pinch, lift and extend the ear helix, earlobe and ear tip. When the blood flow to the head and face is not smooth, our ears are the most effective switch to promote circulation.
Physical methods, like painkillers, also have "enhanced versions". In addition to treating the ear itself, the side of the head outside the ear is also a part you can work on. Use finger knuckles, scraping boards, and wooden combs. Whatever works best for you is the best.
Especially when women go out with makeup on their faces, they want to relax their eye muscles but are afraid that the eyebrows they just drew will be wiped off. At this time, pulling up the ears and relaxing the side of the head can also have a good pain-relieving effect.
3. Press the pain-relieving points
To be more precise, the acupuncture points I often use include the Baihui point in the center of the top of the head, the Fengchi point on both sides of the back of the head, which is one inch into the hairline, the well-known Taiyang point, and the Kunlun point between the outer ankle and the Achilles tendon. These universal points have a certain analgesic effect on headaches caused by poor blood circulation, tight muscles, and mental tension.
4. Scalp Spa
When you are too tired to do anything yourself, leave it to the professionals! Find a hair salon you can trust as your secret base for decompression, make an appointment for a scalp SPA, shave, press, knead and steam, and I often relax to the point of falling asleep during the process.
In addition, combing my hair before going to bed is also a daily maintenance task for me. The Du Meridian, Bladder Meridian, Gallbladder Meridian, and Stomach Meridian all pass through the head. If you take good care of them, you can not only prevent headaches, but also eliminate fatigue throughout the body, help you fall asleep, and sleep more deeply. You can use a horn comb, a wooden comb, or a tooth comb. Pick the one you like.
5. Get just the right amount of sleep
Nowadays, many people like to work and play hard during the week, stay up late to work overtime, drink and sing, and then catch up on sleep on the weekends, sleeping for more than 12 hours or even more. Lying in bed for a long time will damage your energy, the more you sleep, the more tired you will be, and it is easy to get a headache.
Sleep cannot be compensated for by simply extending hours, but by timing it right! The key to health preservation lies in sleeping at the right time. So, what are the best times to sleep? The answer is "Zi-Wu sleep"—from 23:00 PM to 1:00 AM, and from 11:00 AM to 13:00 PM at noon.
Sleeping too much can cause headaches, but so can not sleeping enough! What is enough? 6 to 9 hours is normal, depending on your body type. If you can get 2 to 4 hours of deep sleep, not only will the headache problem go away, it will also be of great benefit to your overall health. (Recommended reading: XNUMX Harms of Lack of Sleep!)
6. Optimize your diet
I met a person who eats out. Every time he eats MSG, his neck becomes tight and soon his head starts to hurt. This is because the sodium glutamate in the seasoning causes blood vessels to constrict. Please think back to your own headache history. Is it "pain from the mouth"? Common things that may cause headaches include: cheese, red wine, beer, hot chocolate, popsicles, sausages, and foods or dishes containing chemical seasonings. Everyone has different physical constitutions. If you get a headache immediately after eating these, try to avoid them next time. If there is no effect, you don't need to be too nervous about the above list.
Here is a list of good foods for preventing headaches, mainly containing vitamins B and C, magnesium, iron, calcium and other nutrients, such as guava, black dates, brown rice and other whole grains, spinach and other dark green vegetables, bean sprouts, sesame, kelp, white melon seeds. In addition, Rhodiola rosea and saffron are good for preventing headaches caused by altitude sickness (saffron is contraindicated during pregnancy, menstruation and taking anticoagulants).
7. Have a cup of coffee
Drinking coffee well will keep you away from headaches, especially migraines and acute headaches related to vasodilation. Many people have told me that drinking coffee can help. I also love black coffee, and I've recently become addicted to Geisha coffee. As long as you don't drink too much coffee, 8 cups a day, and drink it with taste, there's nothing wrong with coffee.
The safe upper limit of caffeine per person per day is 300-400 mg, which means that a 200cc filter can be used for 2-3 cups. Caffeine within the safe value can relieve pain; excessive caffeine can cause headaches. People who drink excessive amounts of caffeine should control their intake slightly. (Recommended reading: Coffee – It can relieve headaches, but it can also make your headaches worse!)
8. Use medication with caution
I habitually take painkillers to relieve pain. When I don't take them, I will experience withdrawal symptoms due to caffeine withdrawal (many painkillers have high caffeine content), and I will want to take two pills at any time. I took the medicine to get rid of the headache, but I didn't expect that taking it would give me another external cause of headache, which would cause more trouble. After knowing that painkillers are not the only answer to relieve headaches, please use the medicine more carefully to prevent dependence on the medicine.
9. Cool down your anger
"When anger arises, a million obstacles open." Anger has adverse effects on the body, some of which are obvious: soaring blood pressure, tense muscles, and splitting headaches. "Your Majesty, please calm down and take care of your health!" This line often appears in costume dramas. Indeed, not getting angry is not for others, but for your own good!
Being angry is like punishing yourself with the mistakes of others. Even though the mistakes are made by others, you are the one who suffers. The principle of keeping healthy is very simple, that is, don't make trouble for yourself. Forget it, forget it, just let it go!
10. Cherish yourself
In addition to anger, I regard psychogenic headaches as a manifestation of the physicalization of psychological worries. They often occur in successful people with strict self-discipline. Do you always feel that you are not good enough? Do you need to work harder? When you push yourself to the limit, it is hard not to have a headache.
I used to be a person who had very high expectations for myself. When faced with situations that were not as expected, I would feel "very headache" and "really overwhelmed". Until one day, an old man smiled and said, "Don't be impatient, young man, take your time, you still have plenty of time!" This sentence was like a spell, and it really made me slow down from then on.
It is good to actively demand more of yourself and want to use your talents, but the pursuit of excellence has no end. If you think in your heart that you will not rest until you reach the "end", you will have many headaches. Life is long, so don't hesitate to press the "pause button" when it is time to rest. Stop at the right time and look at everything you have accomplished/screwed up with a loving eye. On the road to happiness, you can turn back if you get lost. If you know where the goal is, you will always get there! We are compassionate to "people", but we often forget that we are also "people" and forget to be compassionate to ourselves. Often calm down and change your mind to help yourself click the "like" button, accept and appreciate everything you do. Only love is the real medicine that can heal yourself.

Don't Ignore Headache Warning Signs
The above 10 methods treat headaches as a "disease" that can be relieved and improved by yourself. However, if headaches appear as a "symptom", a symptom caused by other diseases in the body, it is a life-saving warning and should not be ignored.
If you rarely have headaches, but suddenly have a sudden headache, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, high fever, visual abnormalities, blindness, aphasia, unilateral movementNerve sensory abnormalities, hemiplegia, or headaches that persist for two or three days and are not relieved by medication... These are all warning signs, please do not endure them, seek medical attention immediately.