Aromatherapy: What to Choose

As mentioned above, the best way to be able to try and conquer your migraine at home through the use of aromatherapy is by buying oils or burning lamps. Using vapor to release these oils is a great way of breathing in the scents and quickly getting these natural remedies inside your body. What these remedies will do that standard painkiller don’t do is relieve stress and aid in the circulation of oxygen and much-needed chemicals through your system and into your brain. These oils are an effective, natural way to move away from traditional painkilling tablets.

One great oil to help a headache is peppermint oil. Peppermint oil rubbed across the forehead and above the eyebrows can be a really effective way of relieving and calming tension headaches by stimulating blood flow through and around the forehead and back onto the rest of the brain. In addition to this, peppermint’s natural elements serve to spread a cooling feel to the skin, something that will really help to calm and stifle any hard to bare headaches. Peppermint oil is a lot of people’s go-to for headaches because it is a cheap, natural replacement for painkillers.

Another great oil is lavender. Lavender’s properties really aid calmness in the head and have curative elements to them. It’s not just for headaches that lavender can be used for, it is, in fact, any kind of muscle tension and many relaxation techniques. I would recommend that you use lavender oils if you have previous with stress related headaches. Use approximately 5-10 drops of oil into a steaming hot bowl of water and hold below your head. This vapor will easily find its way through your system and stop tension and aid rehabilitation.

My final type of oil that I would recommend for helping your migraine is eucalyptus oils and extracts. Properties in eucalyptus include, once again, the ability to soothe and relieve tensions within your head but also alleviate sinus pressure that could be the root cause of your migraine problems. The anti-inflammatory effects that eucalyptus released too could have a positive effect on you and the links through to lowering blood pressure and pain relief are of course helping in aiding head pain. To use this effectively, add between 2-4 drops of eucalyptus oil to a bowl of water and allow vapor ingestion through the nose and mouth.

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These above are the best ways to naturally relieve headaches and migraines using aromatherapy methods. You can also use the oils and creams available to relieve tension through your neck and back which are often the foot causes to headaches and stresses in your head. No method is guaranteed to work for any one person, but all studies on the above products have shown strong signs that they work much more effectively than standard pain killing tablets from the high street. They’re usually cheap and always easy to use that they’re worth paying for just to keep in the house. Give them a try and see if they work for you.