6 Types of Common Headaches





1. Expansive Headache                               

  • Too much fruit
  • Too much ice cream
  • Too much sugar
  • Too much dessert
  • Too much alcohol

How to get rid of Expansive Headache

Olives
Umeboshi (picled plums)
Plums
Anchovies
Even salty potato chips


2. Contractive Headache

  • Too much protein
  • Too much salt
  • Not enough food
  • Not enough water
  • Too much heat
  • Too much stress, (work & tension)

How to get rid of Contractive Headache

  • 2 glasses of juice (ant kind, apple juice)
  • Apple sauce
  • Lemon ice
  • Seltzer with lemon

3. Caffeine withdrawal headache

This type you get when you stop caffeine or if you drink coffee less than usual what you are used too.  So if you have one cup of coffee daily and then one day you have 2 cups, and the next day you go back to one, you will get a caffeine withdrawal headache from the one you’re not having.

How to get rid of Caffeine withdrawal Headache

·      Over the counter drugs as caffeine headache remedy
·      Black tea
·      Green tea
·      Decaf tea or coffee
·      Chocolate (dark 70% )

If you have decided to stop coffee don’t stop cold turkey it can be very painful. Go slowly. Drink lots of water and wait till the caffeine withdrawal headache goes way. It takes 2 to 3 weeks to clear from the system.

4. Liver headache

·      Too much oily food on an empty stomach

Like a big bag of chips that you eat on an empty stomach. It does not get diluted, when it it’s the gallbladder 3 to 4 hours later the headache starts.

It is a sort of migraine headache, vomiting feeling; your eyes may hurt (eyes related to the liver).


How to get rid of Liver Headache

Lemon Tea “El te de la Madre Celestina” Argentine folk
recipe

Lemon tea recipe (make s one serving)
½ organic lemon
1 cup of water

Juice ½ lemon pour juice into cup. Take juice out peel, cut into pieces, place into a pot with a cup of water.
Simmer the lemon peel in the water for 10 min strain water into cup with juice. Discard peel.

Drink hot & Enjoy!


5. Structural Headache

·      A blow to the head

Head gets hit and the cranial plates get stuck so they don’t move when you breathe and that gives a headache.


How to get rid of Structural Headache

·      Chiropractor
·      Craneo-sacral therapy


6. Low Blood pressure Headache

  • Hypotension (reading 90/60 or lower)

Symptoms Low Blood pressure Headache

  • Dizziness
  • Fainting
  • During pregnancy
  • Heart or endocrine problems
  • Blood loss
  • Severe infection
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Diabetes
  • Side effect of some medications
  • Dehydration
  • Lack of nutrients

Remedies for Low Blood Pressure Headache

·      B12 Folate in diet
·      Fortified cereals (whole grains)
·      Beef braised liver
·      Trout
·      Yoghurt
·      Swiss cheese
·      Milk
·      Tuna


Folate
·      Cowpeas
·      Spinach
·      Asparagus
·      Green peas
·      Broccoli
·      Avocado

Large amount of salt
·      Canned soup
·      Table salt
·      Soy sauce

Dehydration can cause low blood pressure (H2O)
·      Drink more water increases fluid intake preventing dehydration increases blood volume

*Keep in mind that for some people having a low blood pressure is normal and it is low all the time (like mine).






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