Saturday, August 16, 2008

Migraine Headache

Migraine Headaches are paroxysmal ailments, that are accompanied by a severe headache. The headache normally occurs on one side of the head. Migraine is associated with disorders of digestion, liver, and sight. Migraine headaches occur sometimes due to great mental tension and stress. Migraine headache patients are typically smart, inflexible, disciplined. Sudden migraine attacks may occur due to overworked muscles in the head and neck and due to continuous stress. The blood flow drops because these tight muscles squeeze the arteries. When the person suddenly relaxes these tight muscles expand and stretch the blood vessel walls. The blood pumped with each heartbeat then pushes the vessels further causing immense pain. More information on regular headaches.

Migraine headache Symptoms

Pain on one side of the head

Migraine headaches have a certain pattern: Normally, the pain is on only one side of the head and often starts from behind the eye. The migraine attack is concentrated on the left side on once occasion and on another you have a headache on the right side.

A short period of depression, irritability and loss of appetite

Migraines and depression are sometimes related in some persons. The affected person may have a period of depression prior to a migraine attack. Migraine headaches also are sometimes preceded loss of appetite and irritability. Migraine attacks may occur every day in some people or may occur with a weeks gap or a month or may be over a year. There is no predictable migraine attack cycle that has been established yet.

Pounding pain, nausea, and vomiting

Symptoms of migraines include pounding pain, nausea and vomiting. You can feel the blood pulsating through the affected side of the head.

Numbness or weakness in an arm or leg, or on one side of the face

Migraine pain may be preceded by numbness and weakness or an arm or a leg. The eye may start paining or one side of the face gets numb prior to a migraine headache. In some cases the entire face and tongue may get numb making the speech slurry. Digestive problems are experienced sometimes as the headache develops.

Common Migraine (without aura) symptoms

Irritability, laziness, stiff neck, yawning are signs of common migraine (migraine without aura). Confused thinking, weakness, difficulty in concentrating are some other signs.

Classical Migraine with aura symptoms

Migraines with aura may have all the symptoms of those without the aura. But has one additional symptom: a visual C shaped aura. A C shaped arc of flashing lights with the center as gray or blind and the colored lights at the end of the C. This migraine aura starts as a small dot and expands in about 30 minutes.

Cause for Migraine Headaches

Low blood sugar, allergy infection, excessive intake of certain drugs

Migraine headaches maybe caused by low blood sugar, allergy infection, excessive intake of certain drugs, nutritional deficiency, consistent overwork, improper sleep and rest, excessive smoking, drinking,and sexual indulgence.

Menstrual Migraine: Menstruation in women

Menstruation in women is also one of the important cause of migraine headache. Commonly known as menstrual migraine, this usually abates after menopause.

Herbal Remedies for migraines headaches

Migraine relief using Grapes

Migraine relief can be obtained from the juice of ripe grapes and is an effective home remedy. Grind fresh ripe grapes and drink without adding any water.

Migraine relief using Niacin

Niacin has proved helpful in relieving migraine pain. Valuable sources of this vitamin are yeast, whole wheat, green leafy vegetables, tomatoes, nuts, sunflower seeds, liver and fish. Vitamin I complex tablets containing 100 mg of niacin can be taken for migraine treatment.

Relieving Migraine using Cabbage Leaf Compress

Cabbage leaf compress can help relieve the pain of a migraine headache. Crush a few cabbage leaves, place in a cloth and apply on the forehead for extended period of time. Use fresh leaves when the compressed leaves dry out.

Migraine treatment using Lemon Crust

Lemon crusts can cure migraine. Grind lemon crust and apply as a paste on the forehead. Migraine cures using this remedy has been found very effective and long lasting by many.

Natural Migraine headache treatment using Vegetable Juices

Carrot juice combined with spinach, beet and cucumber juices are good for migraine treatment. Use on the 2 following mixtures as migraine therapy:
1: Mix 200 ml of spinach juice with 300 ml of carrot juice.
2: Mix 100 ml each of beet and cucumber juices with 300 ml of carrot juice.

Migraine relief diet

Fasting on orange juice and water

Cleansing the body of toxins is important for effective treatment of migraine headache. Fast for 2-3 days on orange juice and water. Alternatively, fast on juices of carrot, celery or cucumber.

Avoid foods like white flour products, sugar, tinned or preserved foods, etc

To prevent migraine avoid or reduce white flour products, sugar, confectionery, rich cakes, pastries, sweets, refined cereals, greasy foods, tinned or preserved foods, pickles, condiments and sauces.

All-fruit diet

3-4 fruit based meals for about 2-3 days after the juice diet could help relieve some of the migraine pain.

Well-balanced diet of seeds, nuts etc.

Adopt a well-balanced diet consisting of seeds, nuts, grains, vegetables and fruits.
Include milk, yoghurt, buttermilk, vegetable oils, and honey.
All fruit diet for a couple of days each month can keep your body cleansed as a migraine therapy.

Eat frequent small meals, Copious drinking of water is essential.

Drink water regularly and in good quantity. Eat frequent smaller meals than lesser large meals. This help your digestion process.

Other migraine treatment

Take warm-water enema to cleanse bowels

Cleanse the bowels by taking warm water enema during the fruit juice diet.

Hot bath, cold compress applied to head

A hot foot bath, fomentation over the stomach and spine, cold compress applied to the head, and towels wrung out of very hot water and frequently applied to the neck will go a long way in relieving migraine headaches.

Plenty of exercise and walk in fresh air is essential

Exercise regularly and frequent fresh air walks help relieve migraine tension.

40 Tips for a Better Life

1. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day..

3. Sleep for 7 hours.

4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.

5. Play more games.

6. Read more books than you did in 2007.

7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.

8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.

9. Dream more while you are awake.

10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.

11. Drink plenty of water.

12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

13. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.

14. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.

15. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.

18. Smile and laugh more.

19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.

20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.

23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. Don't compare your partner with others.

24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

25. Forgive everyone for everything.

26. What other people think of you is none of your business.

27. GOD heals everything.

28. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

29. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

30. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

31. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

32. The best is yet to come.

33. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

34. Do the right thing!

35. Call your family often.

36. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

37. Each day give something good to others.

38. Don't over do. Keep your limits.

39. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.

40. Please Forward this to everyone you care about.

A little rainbow of life



As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that
wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will.

You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time.

You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken.

You'll fight with your best friend.

You'll blame a new love for things an old one did.

You'll cry because time is passing too fast,and you'll eventually lose someone you love.

So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.

- Quote / Thought For The Day - 10

“Sometimes due to jealousy we try to degrade others, and in so doing we degrade ourselves.”



“Big goals can create a fear of failure. Lack of goals guarantees it.”

- Quote / Thought For The Day - 9

“The more you look for defects in others, the more you will become affected. Weaknesses are contagious.”



“In the middle of every difficulty lies an opportunity.”

- Quote / Thought For The Day - 8

“The quality of our thoughts determines our own personal degree of happiness.”



“Luck is what happens, when preparation meets opportunity.”

- Quote / Thought For The Day - 7

“We may forget our own virtues but God never forgets.”



“Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.”

- Quote / Thought For The Day - 6

“If every morning you can spend a few moments to sort out your thoughts and remember God, your day will be filled with magic.”



“Aim at the sun and you may not reach it, but your arrow will fly for higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.”

Tonic for the Mind - 36

Realizing the Atman and constantly reveling in it is moksha.This is the ultimate goal of human life, and anything else-such as doing your duty, prayer, reflecting on the Self, listening and meditation - is an accessory or path leading to this realization. Recognise that one has to constantly strive to reach the ultimate Goal.

- H.H. Sri Swami Tapovanam Maharaj

Tonic for the Mind - 35

When poise is maintained within us, problems and challenges vanish like mist before the rising sun.

- Swami Chinmayananda

- Quote / Thought For The Day - 5

“Some people never mature because of a fear aging, and some because they refuse to accept responsibility.”



“Do not wish to be anything, but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.”

- Quote / Thought For The Day - 4

“If I cling to the past, the present becomes difficult and the future seems impossible.”



“The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.”

Whenever Fear Rules...

Whenever Fear Rules...
An Article by Maneesh Yadav




Fear.... always has shown itself in one way or the other and had made life if not a Hell in a sense but at least Worse.

The First & Foremost thing that need to be understood is that “Fear doesn’t exist itself, there are only Fearful thoughts”. From this quote it need to be looked into that to make ourselves devoid of Fear...,than first we have to devoid ourselves of FEARFUL THOUGHTS. This may sound simple but it has too many perspective to be understood.


To make yourself fearless do not try to fight the fear else it may get a distorted shape and may be more strong. To counter this ‘fantasy’ u just got to look at it...that is to say when fear i.e. the Fearful Thoughts comes into being just look into the Thought Process that tend to arise...watch it closely enough without any criticism of those thought being good or bad. and u will see SURELY Enough at the false nature of this fear and as a smoke it will tend to become ‘thinner and thinner’ in the ‘environment’ of ‘close seeing of this thought process’. (Try this visualization during fear but mind it to visualize it without any criticism..., and doing so u would look into the fantasy and falseness to the so called thing FEAR.”

- Quote / Thought For The Day - 3

“Why try to prove yourself? Let others learn sense through your innocence.”



“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you can not do.”

- Quote / Thought For The Day - 2

“When one observes the beauty that is within God, it becomes so easy to appreciate the beauty within Creation.”



“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.”

- Quote / Thought For The Day - 1

“When you burn with the fire of anger, smoke gets in your eyes.”



“One man with courage makes the difference.”