Martha Stalcup, a pharmacist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, offers these natural tips to headache sufferers:
- Taking herbal supplements such as feverfew or butterbur helps some people.
- Magnesium can help with tension-related headaches. Many people are magnesium- deficient.
- Taking vitamin B12 or vitamin B6 helps some people with headaches.
- Eating ginger or drinking chamomile tea has been shown to soothe the stress than can cause headaches.
- Aromatherapy, with relaxing scents such as lavender, can help some headache sufferers.
Source: Tulsa World, Dec 26, 2008
