How to relieve headache?

Headache can be relieved by massaging the head, drinking green tea and washing your face with hot water.

1, massage the head

There are many acupoints on the human head, which can relieve headaches. Many people will gently press their temples with their fingers when they have a headache. It can be found that the head pain has improved after pressing the temple. Therefore, when you have a headache, you can massage your head with the help of your family or friends to promote blood circulation, and the headache symptoms will gradually be alleviated.

Step 2 drink green tea

Catechols in green tea have a good effect on relieving the symptoms of head swelling and pain. Therefore, if you have symptoms of head swelling and pain in your life, you can drink a few cups of green tea, which can not only replenish water, but also relieve headaches. Many people also drink green tea to overcome severe migraine.

Step 3 Wash your face with hot water

When the headache symptoms are severe, you can wash your face with hot water or apply a towel to your forehead with hot water. Because of the high temperature of hot water, hot compress can promote blood circulation in the head and dredge meridians, and headache symptoms will be improved. It has obvious effect on headache caused by wind-cold common cold.

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Causes of swelling and pain in the head:

1, infection

Fever caused by brain infection or other acute infection of the body system. Brain infections that often cause headaches, such as meningitis, meningoencephalitis, encephalitis, brain abscess, intracranial parasitic infections (such as cysticercosis and echinococcosis), etc. Acute infectious diseases such as influenza? Pneumonia and other diseases.

2. Vascular diseases

Subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis, cerebral embolism, hypertensive encephalopathy, cerebral blood supply insufficiency, cerebrovascular malformation, etc.

3. Space occupying lesions

Cranial brain tumor, intracranial metastatic cancer, inflammatory demyelinating pseudotumor, etc. Headache caused by increased intracranial pressure.

4. Head, face and neck neuropathy

Facial nerve innervation neuralgia: such as trigeminal nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve and occipital neuralgia. Headache caused by facial diseases such as eye, ear, nose and teeth diseases. Cervical spondylosis and other neck diseases will not cause head and neck pain.

5. Systemic diseases

Headache caused by hypertension, anemia, pulmonary encephalopathy and heatstroke.

6, craniocerebral trauma

Such as concussion, brain contusion, subdural hematoma, intracranial hematoma and sequelae of brain injury.

7, poisons and drug poisoning

Such as alcohol, carbon monoxide, organophosphorus, drugs (such as belladonna, salicylic acid) and other poisoning.

8. Internal environment disorder and mental factors

Menstrual and menopausal headaches. Neurosis somatization disorder and hysterical headache.

9. Others

Such as migraine, cluster headache (histamine headache) and headache epilepsy.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-headache