What are the symptoms of vasculogenic headaches and how can they be relieved?

Many people have experienced headaches. Headaches caused by colds are also common in daily life. So what are the symptoms of vascular and neuralgia? How to relieve neuralgia?

Symptoms of vascular headache

The symptoms of vascular headache mainly manifest as severe pain on both sides of the head. The headache is like a drilling headache or throbbing pain, often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and anorexia. It lasts for a long time and the location of the headache is uncertain. Headache attacks are affected by sleep/emotions/excessive fatigue/after drinking/and female patients have worsening headaches before and after menstruation. In the treatment of vascular neurological headaches, Western medicine treatment for this type of patients mainly focuses on pain relief, vasodilation, and sedation, which can be suitable for short-term application. For long-term chronic patients, the frequency of headaches continues to increase and the severity of headaches continues to increase. Those who are ineffective with Western analgesics.

How to relieve the symptoms of neurological headaches?

1. Rub the Taiyang point. Every morning after waking up and before going to bed at night, use the middle fingers of both hands to press the Taiyang point and rub in circles. First rub 7 to 8 circles clockwise, then rub 7 to 8 circles backwards. Repeat this several times for several days. The neuralgia can be greatly relieved.

2. Soak your hands in hot water. When a neuralgic headache occurs, you can immerse your hands in a pot of hot water (the water temperature should be the limit that your hands can tolerate after entering the water). Soak for about half an hour, which can dilate the blood vessels in your hands and reduce the blood flow to the brain, thereby gradually alleviating the neuralgic headache.

3. Chinese medicine for nasal plugging Take 15g each of Chuanxiong, Angelica dahurica and Radix Polygalae, dry them, add 7g of borneol, grind them into fine powder and bottle them for later use. When treating neuralgic headache, you can use a small amount of powder wrapped in gauze to plug the right nostril. Generally, the pain can be relieved in about 15 minutes after plugging the nose.

4. Comb and massage the painful points. Place the ten fingertips of both hands on the most painful place on the head, and perform a light and quick massage like combing your hair. Comb and massage 100 times back and forth each time. Do it once in the morning, noon, and before dinner every day to achieve the purpose of pain relief.

5. Drink strong mint tea: Take 15 grams of dried mint leaves and put them in a teacup. Brew it with freshly boiled water for 5 minutes and then drink it once in the morning and evening. It also has a certain effect on the treatment of neurotic headaches.

6. Eat foods containing magnesium. Patients with neurotic headaches should often eat foods rich in magnesium, such as walnuts, peanuts, soybeans, kelp, oranges, almonds, miscellaneous grains and various green leafy vegetables, which have a certain effect on relieving the symptoms of neurotic headaches.

7. Pay attention to the amount of coffee and tea you drink: too much or too little caffeine can cause headaches.

8. Keep track of what you eat: Chocolate, vinegar, frozen meat and many other foods contain substances such as tyramine and nitrates. These chemicals can cause headaches in people with allergies. Therefore, if you have a headache, you should pay attention to what you eat.

9. Reduce alcohol intake: Drinking alcohol can cause dehydration. Red wine and brandy, like cheese and chocolate, contain tyramine, which can cause headaches.