Archive for June, 2010
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Does Thermo-Auricular Therapy® effectively treat migraines? We must first understand what Thermo-Auricular Therapy® is in order to make this determination.
The word “thermo” refers to heat, and “auricular” refers to the ear. Hence, this is a treatment that is performed when a specially trained aromatherapist ingnites a Biosun and holds this candle next to a person’s ear. This art was probably practiced by ancient Egyptians as part of their medical treatments (using reeds instead of candles), and was used by the Native American Indians just a few centuries ago.
Insurance companies have flatly refused to cover such treatments. However, there are a growing number of testimonials that support the validity of Thermo-Auricular Therapy® to treat migraines by Sue Maunsell and Linda Stokes of the United Kingdom.
Sue Maunsell and Linda Stokes both claim to have tremendous success in using this therapy to treat patients suffering from colds, influenza, tinnitus, dulled hearing and balance-related conditions. Furthermore, this therapy has purportedly also been successful in treating headaches and migraines.
What type of candle is used?
The Biosun candle is made of the finest ingredients. Linen comprises the base of the tube. This base is marinated in a mixture of Sage, Chamomile, St. Johns Wort, along with honey and oils. Once this base is rolled up, it is sprayed lightly with beeswax to hold it together.
Practitioners of Thermo-Auricular Therapy® have noticed that their patients seem to be calmer and more relaxed after each session. They believe that this helps balance the traditional energies emanating from each person.
Can Thermo-Auricular Therapy® help relieve your migraines? You are welcome to try it and let us know.
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Your doctor will want to know the details of your migraine symptoms. You can help your doctor treat you for your specific set of symptoms by answering the following ten questions on paper:
One: How frequently do you have headaches?
Two: Do you have combinations of different types of headaches, such as frequent mild headaches with occasional intensely painful ones?
Three: How many years have you been suffering from headaches? How old were you when the headaches first began?
Four: Where does the pain set in? Does this pain spread over several areas or is it limited to one spot?
Five: How long does the headache pain last? Does the pain have a duration of one hour, several hours, a full day or longer?
Six: How intense are the headaches that you experience? Can you still perform your daily routine, or are you totally incapacitated?
Seven: What words would you use to describe the pain?
Eight: Does the pain increase as a result of physical exertion? Likewise, does the pain decrease when you lie down?
Nine: Do you experience anything about twenty minutes prior to the onset of the migraine? Do you see lights or any extraordinary visual hallucinations? Do you experience numbness in your arms or legs?
Ten: Substances: Are you taking any prescription medications? Do you smoke or drink alcohol? Do you eat foods containing MSG?
There are many different treatment options for various kinds of migraines. Your doctor should be able to tailor a plan based on the answers given to the questions above. Hopefully, by providing the information to your doctor, you will no longer suffer unnecessarily from migraines.
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
Emotional Freedom Techniques (a.k.a. EFT) can serve as effective method of achieving migraine relief. The EFT method consists of tapping along ten various points along the meridians outlined by acupuncturists. As a person taps, he recites specific statements related to his feelings.
This EFT method was founded by Gary Craig. At the age of 13, he realized that his thoughts greatly affected his quality of life. He developed the EFT method based on the belief that the source of all negative emotions is a breakdown in the energy system. This energy system consists of pathways used in acupuncture, known as meridians. A disturbance in the energy meridian causes feelings of anxiety, hurt and shame to develop. These negative emotions can all trigger migraines.
Utilizing this EFT method helps chase away the negative feeling, and thus help relieve the migraine or prevent new ones from occurring.
The way it works is this: You think about a negative feeling or memory. As you think about it, you make a statement relating to this. An example of a statement would be, “I am angry at my boss for yelling at me.” Then, you rate the intensity of this feeling or memory on a scale of 0 to 10.
The next step is to state that you accept yourself. “Even though my boss yelled at me, I fully accept myself.”
You should repeat this affirmation while you tap three times on all the 10 EFT points. Some of these points include the chin, the collar bone, top of head, under the eye, beginning of eyebrow etc.
At the conclusion of this, you then rate the intensity of this feeling a second time. Then, you are supposed to repeat all these steps until the negative emotion is completely gone.
Since anxiety is one of the triggers of migraines, it follows that people with migraines should find Emotional Freedom Techniques helpful in obtaining migraine relief.
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
There is clinical evidence that demonstrates that birth control pills may not be safe for women with migraines. Most contraceptive methods contain estrogen, a hormone. The estrogen has been shown to increase the odds of blood clot formation. These blood clots occur more frequently in the legs, but sometimes the clots may form in the heart, causing heart attacks or strokes.
By definition, a stroke is damage to the brain, which causes braincells to die. This, in turn, may lead to paralysis or death. Only 4 to 5 women out of 100,000 women ages 20 to 44 have strokes each year. Unfortunately, women who suffer from migraine headaches are more likely to suffer a stroke. These women with migraines are four times as likely to suffer a stroke as their peers who don’t have migraines.
Worse, women who suffer from migraines who also use estrogen-containing contraceptive methods are seven times as likely as their peers to suffer a stroke. For women who have migraines and use birth control pills, the patch or the ring, the rate is 28 to 35 out of every 100,000 women each year.
Women who smoke and suffer from migraines who also use estrogen for birth control are at an even greater risk. These women are 34 times as likely to suffer a stroke. In other words, in women who have migraines, smoke and also use estrogen-containing birth control, there are about 170 strokes per 100,000 women each year.
Therefore, women who suffer from migraines are strongly encouraged to use alternate methods of birth control that don’t contain estrogen.
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