Does heat or ice help a migraine?

You DON'T want heat, as this causes your blood vessels to swell, meaning more blood would be circulating where the headache is and that rushing/pounding sound in your ears would get worse. Ice should help dull the pain a little bit. My mom takes Imitrex (only available by RX) for her migraines.

If yours' is heat constitution ice and for cold constitution heat will help you.
pl see what suits you.
If you are in cold country use all warm things.
Pl try cold water bath and observe if in hot country, if pain increases use warm.
If you have cough/cold body hot water bath will help.
Massage and exercise in front of morning sun is good thing, pl try.
Pl try simple acupressure given below for immediate relief.
If it fails you will have to go for Acupuncture.

There is hardly any medicine for H/A OR MIGRAINE. Not only these but for RA, OA, Back ache, Ear ache/ringing, Stomach ache and almost all painful diseases. Hence they become chronic.

Acidity, WORRY, sadness, excessive wind, cold , heat, sour food and sinusitis, constipation, intestinal inflammation; drug side effects, stress, bad smell, TV & COMPUTER SOMETIMES, Blockage in the flow of Vital Energy, BODY CONSTITUTION etc are their causes.
None of them can be treated with medicine.
Our 100% success in treating migraine &H/A confirms it.

Acupuncture is the best treatment.
I can treat it with naturopathy and YOG, but how can you manage pl see.

Pain killers don't treat the pain but we loose the sense of pain for some time; in that duration our body itself treats sometime and credit goes to meds.
The useless drugs have tremendous power of side effects like liver/kidney failures, ulcer, inflammation of intestines and lot more.

Avoid late sleeping if possible; worry, tension, spicy foods, sour fruits, stale bakery foods, SMOKING and alcohole.

Sweet foods, COCOANUT WATER,sweet fruits like dates, milk, rice, SPROUTS, SALADS and good sleep will help if cough is not there.

But you try one herbal remedy- two drops of drumstick leaves' juice in opposite nostril if one side pains and both nostrils if full H/A will give you rescue. Betel leaf helps but it is very strong.

If it is acute pl search a painful point (with round tipped pen/jimmy) 3-6 mm behind your thumb nail and press it, H/A will disappear within 30 seconds.

For forehead/eye pain the points are in front of nails on the finger tips or 3-7 mm below.

It may disappear naturally too.

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I've found neither to help. They make it worse for me.

However soaking a towel in water and ringing it out, then putting it over my eyes and my forehead while lying in a dark room on my back for a few hours, as proven to work wonders for me when medication isn't available. =)

Ice at the location of pain for about 15 min every hour. No longer than that. Heat on your neck for the same amount of time but ice is better there as well. Lay in a dark quiet room.

My mother uses ice, daughter and I have....it helps to constrict the blood vessels in the head. Total darkness usually helps...

Good luck sweetie....

Eileen

A heating pad usually helps mine.