This is interesting. As someone who gets migraines, I’ve always been a bit skeptical of natural fixes, but appreciate how this explains why they might help, not just that they do. Thank you for sharing.
I put some galgant powder onto my tounge and swallow ingwer powder to reduce the pain cascade and maybe nausea, put some wintergreen and african boswelia oil on my migraine side to stop the inflammation, put my feet and hands into warm water with a mixture of lavender oil in coconut oil for stress relief and spray some rose water on my body for cooling my face and neck. And I have to sit nit to lay. The blood can flow in to my hands and feets away from my head. Works great in most of the cases. Since that I reduced my triptane medicine enormously. Thanks God! But be careful with the pure oils they like to creep into yout eyes. Best would be to mix it with shea butter and they will stay where you put them on.
I like the idea of mixing an essential oil with a lipophilic compound like coconut oil or beef tallow, or Shea butter to dilute it as needed, keep it in place where applied and also perhaps help it to absorb transcutaneously.
Wow! I’m going to start doing this! I originally got into essential oils because I had severe asthma and chronic bronchitis that was not responding to medical treatment. I even had to take a 12 week FMLA because I was just too sick to work. Consistent daily use of eo’s eventually healed 99% of those respiratory issues for me. (And folks said I smelled like a walking spa😂❤️)
Now I’ve been dealing with chronic migraine since 2016 and I finally reached a point where I am no longer able to work, and many days I am also no longer safe to drive.
But I’ve had no idea that eo’s can help migraines! So thank you so much for writing this article, Dr Baker!
This is interesting. As someone who gets migraines, I’ve always been a bit skeptical of natural fixes, but appreciate how this explains why they might help, not just that they do. Thank you for sharing.
I agree, understanding the biochemistry can explain how millennia of folk tales might have a grain or two of truth to them.
I put some galgant powder onto my tounge and swallow ingwer powder to reduce the pain cascade and maybe nausea, put some wintergreen and african boswelia oil on my migraine side to stop the inflammation, put my feet and hands into warm water with a mixture of lavender oil in coconut oil for stress relief and spray some rose water on my body for cooling my face and neck. And I have to sit nit to lay. The blood can flow in to my hands and feets away from my head. Works great in most of the cases. Since that I reduced my triptane medicine enormously. Thanks God! But be careful with the pure oils they like to creep into yout eyes. Best would be to mix it with shea butter and they will stay where you put them on.
I like the idea of mixing an essential oil with a lipophilic compound like coconut oil or beef tallow, or Shea butter to dilute it as needed, keep it in place where applied and also perhaps help it to absorb transcutaneously.
Hi Dr Baker,
Wow! I’m going to start doing this! I originally got into essential oils because I had severe asthma and chronic bronchitis that was not responding to medical treatment. I even had to take a 12 week FMLA because I was just too sick to work. Consistent daily use of eo’s eventually healed 99% of those respiratory issues for me. (And folks said I smelled like a walking spa😂❤️)
Now I’ve been dealing with chronic migraine since 2016 and I finally reached a point where I am no longer able to work, and many days I am also no longer safe to drive.
But I’ve had no idea that eo’s can help migraines! So thank you so much for writing this article, Dr Baker!
Now off to pull together these essential oils!
Michelle
Hopefully with results like you got on the respiratory issues. Good luck, and let me know how it goes.