There are different types of headaches. Most headaches last only for a few hours, but some can last for several weeks. The pain may occur only in one side of the head (for example, above the eyes) or it may spread to all parts of the head.

Different types of headaches have different kinds of pain. Pain may occur suddenly and throbbing, or it may be chronic. Some headaches may be accompanied by nausea.

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Causes of Headaches

Headaches can have different causes, and the location of the pain and its intensity are different.

Three out of four headaches, occur due to pressures and tension that occur in the muscles of the neck and skull. These types of headaches are called tension headaches. These headaches occur frequently and are on both sides of the head.

Other types of headaches such as migraines and cluster headaches have different causes. A small number of headaches, have a serious underlying cause that requires immediate medical attention. For example, a severe pain in head may be a sign of meningitis.

In meningitis, the inflammation occurs in membrane covering the brain and spinal cord. A severe pain in head may also be caused by subarachnoid hemorrhage, in which bleeding occurs between the membranes that covers the brain.

In elderly, a headache that is accompanied by pain or sensation in the scalp or temple may be caused by inflammation of the temporal artery. Headaches can also occur sometime due to long-term use of strong painkillers.

If you have a severe headache that has lasted for more than 24 hours, or if it is accompanied by other symptoms such as visual disorder or vomiting, you should see a doctor immediately and receive treatment according to instructions.

Now we introduce different types of headache and their treatment:

Tension Headache

This is often caused by stress or staying in a bad position that causes the head and neck muscles cramps.

Tension headaches usually last a few hours, but some people may experience it as last for days or weeks. Recurring tension headaches often occur in depressed people or people who are under permanent stress due to problems at work or at home. These headaches often intensify in noisy, hot and crowded places. These types of headaches may occur in any person, but mostly occur in women over 20 years old.

Symptoms and signs of tension headaches often occur around noon or early afternoon and may last for several hours. These symptoms include:

Pain that is usually constant or may be throbbing. This pain is felt above the eyes or generally above the head.
Feeling of pressure behind the eyes.
Cramp and tightening of the neck muscles.
Feeling of stiffness around the head.

People who suffering constant tension headaches, often suffering insomnia. These people may become depressed because of this problem and feel that their energy is lost. Taking pain relievers such as acetaminophen may help relieve tension headaches.

However, long-term use of pain relievers medicine may eventually cause headaches itself. If you have a severe headache that has lasted for more than 24 hours and has not been relieved by the treatments you have done yourself at home, or if your it is accompanied by symptoms and problems such as vomiting or blurred vision, visit a doctor immediately.

Phlegmatic Headache

If the pain felt just at the back of the head and this area is under pressure, it is due to excess moisture and increased phlegm.

The signs of increased phlegm are heaviness in the head, accumulation of saliva in the mouth, slight agitation, sour smell of belching and white color of stool. Therefore, in order to eliminate the prevalence of phlegm, you should eat bread with walnut kernels, lamb muscle with Nigella sativa L., bananas, butter and honey, Beta vulgaris and dates.

To treat such headaches, you should mix Cuminum cyminum, Carum carvi, Trachyspermum and Foeniculum vulgare 5 grams each, rock candy 100 grams, grind all together. Every morning, noon, and night, put a tablespoon of it in your mouth and eat.
Mix one hundred and fifty grams of Nigella sativa L., grind and mix with 500 grams of honey, and eat one tablespoon every morning and night.

Headache Due To The Excess of Phlegm and Black Bile (Soda)

If soda and phlegm have both prevailed and caused a headache, first remove the Soda and phlegm, and then:

Viola odorata, Nymphaea flower, Matricaria chamomilla flower and Astragalus hamosus kernel, mix and boil 3 grams of each, every morning and evening, sweeten the filtered water and drink. Also, mix Cuminum cyminum and Vigna radiata, grind, then mix with rose water and apply to the painful area.
Use Sinapis and beets in daily food.

Headache Due To the excess of Soda

If the headache is due to the predominance of Soda, all or some of these symptoms may appear as a result:

heaviness and pain in the forehead, constipation, dark color of complexion, white urine, feeling of sound in the ears or in the head, eyes tightness, eye fatigue, insomnia, dozing, slow pulse, taciturnity, getting anxious by hearing words and voices, impatience, lethargy, OCD, and over thinking.

If the it is diagnosed due to the dominance of Soda, remove the soda mal-temperament first. Also, it is useful if you make stew with lamb shank and chickpeas or eat turnip soup, beetroot or Cuscuta epithymum infusion.

Headache From Excess Yellow Bile

If the headache is due to the predominance of yellow bile, it has symptoms such as intense body heat, dry lips, bitterness in the mouth, rapid pulse, fecal infection, opaque and heavy urine color and burning urination.

In this case, you must first remove the excess yellow bile and then:

Beet juice with Coriandrum sativum, orange juice, Tamarindus indica juice, pomegranate juice, Berberis vulgaris juice, sour grape juice, orange juice, Lactuca sativa, Coriandrum sativum cooked with Lens culinaris should be used more to purify the blood and lower the body temperature and the color of urine becomes smooth and clear.
Every day Ziziphus jujuba, Berberis vulgaris, Prunus spinosa, Cordia myxa, Tamarindus indica and Viola odorata flower, mix 10 grams of each with 3 grams of Fumaria officinalis, boil and filter its water and mix it with a quantity of Alhagi maurorum manna and drink.
Boil some Prunus cerasus and filter its water, then mix some Rubus syrup and some Sekanjebin with it and drink.

Headache From Excess Yellow Bile and Blood

If both blood and yellow bile have been dominance and cause a headache, first remove the predominant mal-temperament, then treat it:

Mix Ziziphus jujuba and Berberis vulgaris every morning, boil and then filter and sweeten the water and drink. Also use sour grape juice, vinegar, and Tamarindus indica juice.

Headache From Excess Blood

If the headache is due to the dominance of blood and heat, its symptoms will be reddening of the lips, flushing of the face, high pulse rate, constipation and hard stools, and heaviness in the head.

In this case, you must first remove the dominant humor. Then:

Use Tamarindus indica pottage, sour grape pottage, Ziziphus jujuba juice and Fumaria officinalis juice.
Every day, mix 14 grams of Ziziphus jujuba, 4g of Malva Sylvestris flower, 8g of Althaea officinalis flower, as well as Viola and Fumaria officinalis flowers, 4g of each and boil, then filter and sweeten the water and drink.
Apply 2 drops of Viola odorata oil in each nostril three times a day.
In addition, hijama, or venesection, which causes decrease amount of blood, is very useful when this pain is due to the predominance of blood and high temperature.

Headache After Waking Up

If you have a headache after sleeping, when you wake up, you must first determine which of the four humors is predominance. And after it is determined, do treatment and adjustment of the humors. After adjustment of the humors:

Make a paste of burnt fig tree ash with vinegar and put it on your head and repeat this process for a few nights.

Headache Caused By Fatigue

If a headache occurs due to fatigue and work pressure, the best treatment is to sleep and rest.

But if you don’t have the possibility of having enough sleep and rest and you feel this pain in your head during the daily work due to the intensity of the work pressure, it is better to close your eyes for about 10 to 15 minutes after each working hour and not talk to anyone. And sit completely calm and quiet, and then stretch your hands from your thighs to your knees, then massage your forehead, head, and ears a bit, and take deep breaths during these actions. Because if the lungs are filled with fresh air by deep breathing, the headache will go away.

When you have a headache, wet your index finger with water and massage behind the ears, it will go away. Also, you can brew a tablespoon of Matricaria chamomilla flower in a glass of boiling water, then filter and sweeten the water and drink.

Headache Caused By Brain Weakness

A headache that is caused by brain weakness, its symptoms are senses disorder, imagination and thoughts disorders, excitement and restlessness, this pain most occur when hearing loud noises or smelling fragrance.

Fruit compote and Santalum album syrup can be used to treat it. Smelling red apple or amber or rose water will also be effective. Rubbing a mixture of rose oil, rose water and vinegar on the head is useful.

Rosa × damascena flower, Viola odorata flower, Echium amoenum flower, and Coriandrum sativum seed, 10 grams each, raw hazelnut kernels 40 grams, almond kernels, walnut kernels, and pistachio kernels, 100 grams each, mix them all with 500 gram of sugar and pour a tablespoon of it in your mouth every morning, noon and night after every meal and eat.

Headache Caused By Body Weakness

If the headache is due to body weakness, you can:

Eat bread with plenty of dried Trigonella foenum–graecum and Nigella sativa.
Mix soft Myrtus communis, Cicer arietinum flour, egg yolk and a little honey, and apply it on the scalp at night, cover the head with a cloth and wash it in the morning.
Mix the seeds of Ocimum basilicum, Lallemantia seeds and Melissa officinalis with 2 glasses of rose water and 2 glasses of Salix aegyptiaca hydrosol, and eat it four times a day.

Headache After Taking Shower

If you get a headache after leaving the bathroom:

You should mix 5 grams of Ocimum basilicum seeds with half a glass of rose water and half a glass of Echium amoenum flower extract every day and sweeten it with honey and eat and smell musk or amber several times a day and wash your head with Matricaria chamomilla boiled water.

Headache Caused By Heatstroke

If you have a severe headache in hot weather and in very hot places (which is caused by heat), as a treatment:

Put 16.8 grams of powdered Viola odorata flowers and some Descurainia sophia in a container and put some ice cube in it, then dissolve 75 grams of brown sugar separately in warm water, then mix both and eat.
Crush the fresh leaves of the Salix alba tree, then make a paste with cold water and apply a poultice on the head and put the feet in cold water. Also, mix Ocimum basilicum and Descurainia sophia seeds with Sekanjebin syrup and ice and eat.

Headache Caused By Sunlight

If the headache is caused by sunburn, to relieve it, you can:

Grind Althaea officinalis flowers, then mix with Plantago ovata glaze and eat.
Mix Rosa × damascena flower oil, cucumber juice and vinegar and rub on the head.

Headache Caused By Cold Weather

Walking in snow and staying in cold weather and eating cold drinks and icy foods and eating ice or snow etc., sometimes cause very severe headaches. In this case, you should:

Grind the leaves of Ruta graveolens, mix with vinegar and drop in the nose.
Put a few drops of Eucalyptus incense in boiling water and fumigate well. Then cover the head and especially the forehead with a shawl or a woolen hat.
Coriandrum sativum seeds, raw coffee, Papaver somniferum bark, Hordeum vulgare straw, Triticum straw, eucalyptus leaves and Matricaria chamomilla flowers, 5 grams each and Nigella sativa, Lavandula and Origanum majorana, 2 grams each. Boil and fumigate the decoction 3 times a day.

Headache Caused By Meningitis

If the headache is caused by meningitis, the patient should be taken to the hospital immediately to collect the cerebrospinal fluid and rest for a while in the normal air to recover.

If meningitis is diagnosed late and the collecting of cerebrospinal fluid is done late, the patient’s neck will become stiffed or paralyzed.

Frontal Headache

Pain in the front of the head may have three causes. As a result of weak kidney function, as a result of catching cold, and as a result of a cold stomach.

For this reason, you should first mix some salt with water and make a paste and put it in the palm of both hands and feet.
If the headache improves a little, mix some Nigella sativa powder with honey and eat, and eat Rosa × damascena flower soup as lunch on the same day.
If the headache worsens after applying salts, remove them from your hands and feet and wash them. Then apply some sour grape juice to the forehead and drink about 2 glasses of pomegranate juice. Then chop 50 grams of Ziziphus jujuba and boil in water, filter and eat. Mix a small amount of sour grape powder with water and apply it on the forehead, the pain will be reduced immediately. If the headache decreases, you should mix a small amount of Coriandrum sativum juice with a little vinegar for a few days, 3 times a day, put two drops in the nose every morning, noon and night and rest a little.
Boil 10 grams of Coriandrum sativum and Solanum nigrum seeds each day, then filter the water and sweeten it with sugar and drink, repeat this process every morning and night.

Temporal Headache

If you feel pain and shooting pain in sides of the temporal, you should:

pulverize bitter orange skin and make a paste with a little vinegar and apply it on the forehead and temporals.
Drip red onion juice in both nostrils.
Crocus sativus stigma 2.5 grams, Commiphora molmol 2 grams, Saussurea costus and Aristolochia longa 5 grams each, Rheum officinale and Cinnamomum verum 10 grams each, Pimpinella anisum 20 grams, Apium graveolens seeds 30 grams, mix and grind all, then mix with 250 grams of honey and eat a syrup spoon every morning, noon and night before meals.

Headache Caused By Dry Nose

If the headache is caused by a dry nose, it is accompanied by symptoms such as hunger, weakness of heart, sadness, thinness, and dry skin.

Every morning and night, soak 5 grams of Portulaca oleracea seed, Plantago ovata and Cydonia oblonga seeds in a glass of boiling water for about 1 to 2 hours. Filter the water, sweeten it with sugar and drink.
Apply 2 drops of Viola odorata oil in each nostril every night.

Headache Caused By Fever

This type of headache starts during high fever and improves when the fever stops.

In these cases, take cucumber juice and mix it with Rosa × damascena flower oil and vinegar and apply it on the front of the head.

Headache Caused By Severe Infection

Here, the heaviness of the head will be more severe and pain will also occur in the knees. Red rashes will appear on the skin and the tongue and mouth will be very dry and the eyes will be inflamed, in which case the fever will reach a high degree.

In this case, the patient should do enema first and then the dominant humor should be removed.

It is better to prepare a soup with Vigna radiata, Hordeum vulgare, Coriandrum sativum, Cucurbita pepo, Spinacia oleracea and chicken and eat everyday. Crush some roots of Ricinus communis and Trachyspermum together and make a paste and apply it on the head.

Sometimes drink Cichorium intybus or Salix hydrosol or Salix aegyptiaca hydrosol or Echium amoenum flower hydrosol or rose water one cup at a time and eat Gol e-Ghand (fermented mix of rose flower and sugar in sunlight) as well.

Headache Caused By Catarrh

To treat headaches caused by catarrh (flu), doctors in new medicine prescribe painkillers that contain aspirin, pyramin, caffeine or some of them including luminal. The effect of these drugs is temporary and after a few hours the pain starts again.

These medicines not only do not cure the disease, but also the patient may be addicted to those pills and relieve the pain with them, without knowing that all kinds of pills and chemical drugs in general, will have side effect on the brain, nervous system and etc.

But herbal medicines do not have any side effects if they are used correctly and on a right dosage, people can use them unwary and achieve the desired results.

Therefore, if the headache is due to a cold, as a first step, cover the head and ears with a shawl or a woolen hat or heat a cloth or towel and place it on the front of the head so that the capillaries can pass the blood well and reduce the pain.
Origanum majorana, Matricaria recutita, Melissa officinalis, Adiantum capillus–veneris, Nymphaea flower, Astragalus hamosus kernel and yellow Terminalia chebula bark, Rheum officinale, Cassia Angustifolia, Rosa × damascena, Lavandula angustifolia, Viola odorata flower, Papaver somniferum bark, Solanum nigrum, Foeniculum vulgare, Cichorium intybus root, Cichorium intybus seed, Coriandrum sativum seed, Fumaria officinalis and linaria vulgaris mill, 10 grams of each, mix and grind, then divide into 10 equal parts. Soak each part in one and a half glass of boiling water every night and boil again in the same water in the morning, then fumigate the head and eyes on it. When the water reaches half, filter it and sweeten the water and drink.

Headache Caused By Vision Disorders

Headaches caused by vision disorders are as follows:

Whenever there is a problem in visual focusing, the ciliary muscles of the eye constrict too much to have a clear vision, despite the smallness of the muscles, their constriction can cause a headache. This type of headache is felt behind the eye socket. Furthermore, it also occur due to the constriction of the facial muscles and the external muscles of the eyes.

Unequal vision of both eyes, imbalance between the external eye muscles, staring at bright light, sudden increase of light (such as light from a welding) and even looking at snow in sunny weather, all can cause headaches. Therefore, it will be relieved by discovering the cause or visiting an ophthalmologist and applying appropriate instructions.

Histaminic Headache

This type of headache will occur by injecting histamine. As a result of the injection of histamine, the arteries inside and outside the skull are dilated, the blood pressure first drops and then rises again after a few minutes. Then, the arteries of the head, especially the temporal arteries, remain in a dilatation and strong pulsation state, which causes this pain.

Headache Caused By Smell

At home, workplace, or everywhere else, pleasant, or unpleasant smells may always be smelt.

These smells are scattered in the air, from plants, acids or other objects and devices etc. Some people get a headache when they smell something and it bothers them a lot.

As a treatment, according to the smell scattered in the air, its medicine should be chosen and taken. For example, if the smell that caused the pain is from warm spice, foods and plants, smell Viola odorata flower, or camphor, or fresh Nymphaea flower or apple or Coriandrum sativum Smell constantly, and drop Viola odorata oil or Nymphaea oil or almond oil in the nose.
If the headache is caused by bad and unpleasant smells, take a warm shower, and then mix a little rose water and vinegar in equal amounts and rub in the nose.
If it is caused by the smell of gas, oil, or coal, or from the bathroom, or from the heater CO₂, smell pickles or vinegar and rub a little vinegar to the front of the nose and inside it.
Also, mix ground coffee with vinegar and make a paste and apply on the forehead and cover the forehead with a headband and take a walk in the open air and take deep breaths and drink orange juice or lemon juice or pomegranate juice.

Headache Caused By Alcohol Consumption

Such headaches are caused by alcohol poisoning.

If such headaches occur, you can drink Sekanjebin or lemon juice or Anethum graveolens decoction to induce vomiting and empty the stomach from alcohol poisoning.
Hot temperament can dissolve 2.5 grams of Convolvulus scammonia in half a glass of pomegranate juice or pour Cotoneaster in Prunus domestica juice or Tamarindus indica juice, then add a little rose water and drink.
If their temperament is very hot, drink Portulaca oleracea juice or Fumaria officinalis hydrosol or Salix hydrosol or Cichorium intybus hydrosol or Salix aegyptiaca hydrosol or Rubus hydrosol and wash the head with a mixture of vinegar, rose water and rose oil. Then rub lukewarm Lilium candidum oil or Matricaria chamomilla oil on the head.
In cold temperaments, they should drink Iyaraj e-Fiqra (mixture of Rosa domestica L., Cinnamomum verum, Zingiber officinale and Aloe vera) or apple syrup or apple compote or pomegranate syrup or Santalum album syrup.

Headache Caused By Strike

In head injuries and accidents, if there is no fracture and there is chance of severe pain and swelling and the patient has high blood pressure, some blood should be taken to reduce the pressure, then the pain calms down a little and the pressure inside the skull becomes lower.

Then grind Myrtus communis leaves, clay mud, barley, lentils, Scabiosa columbaria flower, Robinia pseudoacacia and Santalum album, then mix with rose oil and apply it to the injured area to prevent hematoma and subcutaneous bleeding and make the skull stronger. Rubbing a mixture of rose oil and vinegar will also be useful.
If the patient has fever, redness, and severe swelling in the injured area, you should grind red Santalum album and Armenian soil very soft, then mix it in boiled water of Solanum nigrum and apply it to the pain area. If the swelling and pain do not decrease, cook them in vinegar and apply as poultice on the place.
If there is a confusion and fever, and the effects of brain swelling and internal bleeding are evident, as a treatment, you can grind Tamarix wood, pomegranate peel, Pinus fruit, Boswellia serrata and rose flower all together, paste it with a little water or rose water and poultice it on the injured area.
Grind the Hyssopus officinalis flower and Salix leaf soft, then make a paste with barley flour and Rosa damascena flower oil and apply a poultice on the affected area.
In addition, continuous smelling of rose water or Viola odorata flower or apple is useful for this type of disease.

Headache Caused By Liver Disease and Yellow Bile

If the headache is on the right side of the head, it is caused by liver and bile disorders. Such as gallstones, swelling of the gallbladder, infections of the gallbladder, jaundice and other liver diseases.

As a treatment, you can soak bread in diluted vinegar and eat. Also, consuming pomegranate paste, pomegranate juice, plum juice, sour grape juice, Cichorium intybus hydrosol and drinking cold water is also useful.
Cichorium intybus root, Rheum officinale root, Cichorium intybus seed, Citrus medica, Tamarindus indica, dry Ficus carica, dry Mentha piperita, dry Anethum graveolens, Fumaria officinalis, Cuscuta chinensis seed, Apium graveolens seed, Pimpinella anisum, Asarum europaeum, Valeriana officinalis, and Tribulus terrestris 20 grams of each, mix all and divide into 20 equal parts and soak each part in one and a half glass of boiling water at night. Boil in the same water in the morning. When the water reaches half, filter and sweeten it and drink.

Headache Caused By Spleen Disease

If the cause of the headache is spleen diseases, the left side of the head has pain, which will be accompanied by weakness and pain in the left side of the abdomen (below the last ribs).

As a remedy, eating bread with vinegar, or cucumber is useful. At the same time, you should treat the spleen disease so that the pain will completely removed.

Muscular Headache

If the headache is due to muscle spasm, it is quite similar to the headaches of internal skull damage.

Most time, it is caused by anxiety, worry, anger, work fatigue, long driving and etc., which causes head and neck muscles to contract. This contraction and muscle spasm will cause it.

Headache Caused By Eating Inappropriate Food

Sometimes a headache occurs due to eating fatty or thick or slow-digesting foods, and this pain is more directed at the eye socket and dizziness, which sometimes also leads to vertigo and delusions.

For its treatment, Commiphora mukul, Operculina turpethum and Citrullus colocynthis of each 3 grams, Cuscuta epithymum, 5 grams, Iyaraj e-Fiqra (mixture of Rosa damascena, Cinnamomum verum, Zingiber officinale and Aloe vera), 10 grams, mix all and grind soft, then make a stiff paste with a little rose water and make pills in the size of a pea. Eat 2 to 3 pills every morning, noon, and night.
In addition, it is effective to drip Bitter almond oil in the nose or Foeniculum vulgare incense or inhalation of boiled water mixed with Apium graveolens and Matricaria chamomilla.

Headache Caused By Stomach Disease

If the headache is due to a stomach problem, it is accompanied by symptoms such as vomiting, bitter mouth, bitter vomit, yellow eyes, thirst, and heartburn, and the pain is reduced by vomiting.

Dissolve some Sekanjebin in very hot water and eat it to expel the contents of the stomach, then use anti-bilious medicines. At the same time, strengthening the stomach and relieving its pains relieves these kinds of headaches.
Mix 10 grams of Rosa × damascena and 5 grams of Indian Saccharum ravennae and 5 grams of Gel e-Armani (Bentonite) and grind very finely and then pour some sour grape juice syrup in it. Take one tablespoon after each meal.

Headache Caused By Indigestion

If the headache is due to indigestion, its symptom is dry lips, mouth and tongue, and it causes strong thirst.

Boil 10 grams of Viola odorata flower, Malva Sylvestris flower, Ziziphus jujuba and Tribulus terrestris Strain its water and then dissolve 20 grams of Alhagi maurorum in its water and drink. Drink a cup of Salix hydrosol half an hour later. Then mix 5 grams of Alyssum homolocarpum with cold water and drink, and 24 hours later, brew 5 grams of Cassia angustifolia leaves with 2 broken Citrus aurantifolia and drink its juice.
As food, you can eat rice with Coriandrum sativum or yogurt with sugar, fat-free lamb shank, cow milk, or Rosa × damascena.

Headache Caused By Constipation

In most of people who suffering from constipation, it means that their stool is dry or their bowel doesn’t move every day, chronic headache occurs. The cause it is that the consumed food stays in the digestive system and as a result of staying, its toxic substances are absorbed by the liver and these toxics are not neutralized.

On the other hand, due to the fact that some of the blood plasma enters the liver during constipation, it will reduce the blood circulation in the skull. In this way, the patient gets a headache. This type of pain will be removed by taking the constipation medicine, and when the constipation is cured, the headache will also improve.

Headache Caused By High Blood Pressure

Most people with high blood pressure will experience headaches. People with labile hypertension, when their blood pressure is low, there is no headache, but when the blood pressure rises, the headache will also start.

The cause of it due to high blood pressure is contraction or rupture of small blood vessels or leakage of fluid into the cranial space. In addition, there is always the risk that, due to high pressure, even large vessels will rupture and lead to paralysis of a part of the body or whole the body. To treat it, blood pressure must be lowered.

Headache Caused By Rheumatism

If the headache is due to rheumatism:

Boil and smash the hard leaves of Brassica oleracea and apply it on the head until it is warm and then cover the head with a woolen hat and keep it warm.

Neural Headache

In this type of headache:

Brew 15 grams of dry Thymus Serpyllum leaves in one liter of boiling water. Strain the decoction and sweeten it with honey and drink a cup of it every morning before noon, evening, and night.
2 times a day, brew a tablespoon of dry Matricaria chamomilla flowers in 100 grams of boiling water for 1 hour, then filter and sweeten it with honey and drink. While taking the medicine, you can apply grated onion poultice on the forehead or use lemon slices as a compress.

Migraine Headache

Lavandula angustifolia, Origanum majorana, Matricaria chamomilla, Melissa Officinalis, Adiantum capillus-veneris, Fumaria officinalis, Astragalus hamosus brain, Coriandrum sativum seed, Cichorium intybus root, Cichorium intybus seed, Artemisia absinthium, Nymphaea flower, Rosa × damascena flower, Rheum officinale, yellow Terminalia chebula skin, Cassia angustifolia, Teucrium polium, Trachyspermum, Pimpinella anisum and Nigella sativa, 20 grams each, mix them all and grind them. Then divide into 20 equal parts and soak each part in one and a half glass of boiling water at night and boil it in the same water in the morning. When it is boiling, give its incense to the head and brain. When the water reaches half, filter and sweeten the water and drink it before breakfast.
Apply grated onion on the forehead and vertex every night before going to sleep. In addition, eye stimulation is also effective when peeling onions.
Between fruits just drink apple juice. Massage your shoulder and neck three times a day. Then put a towel that has been cooled in cold water behind your neck and keep your feet in warm water.

Headache Caused By Menstrual disorders and PMS

Women who suffer from menstrual problems and disorders will suffer from this type of headache.

They should boil Foeniculum vulgare, Matricaria chamomilla and Commiphora opobalsamum leaves three times a day and drink filtered and sweetened decoction to reduce the pain.

Headache Caused By Sexual Activities

People who are weak and do not have the stamina and endurance in sexual activities, or who overdo it, suffer from such headaches. Those who suffering from this type of headache, should take hot shower regularly.

Drink warm cow milk three times a day, eat Soft-boiled eggs with bread and onion, and use fish meat, fruit juices, and apple compote, and refrain sexual activity for a while.

Headache Caused By Not Reaching Enough Blood To The Brain

If the blood does not reach the brain due to weakness and insufficiency and causes a headache:

Consuming plenty of yellow and ripe grapes, strawberries, raw hazelnuts, roasted corn, beer, bread with cheese, oranges, and mashed bananas mixed with cream and honey, Origanum vulgare brewed water, Valeriana officinalis tea, sheep brain, Apium graveolens, Cirsium vulgare, Rheum and Petroselinum crispum will be useful.
In such cases, when the blood does not reach the brain properly, lie down every 3 hours in a completely calm and quiet place. But don’t put a pillow under your head and try to sleep. If you do not fall asleep, keep your eyes closed. If you continue it for several days in a row, the problem will be solved.
Mix Melissa officinalis and the seed of Lallemantia royleana Benth in an equal amount with some hydrosol of Salix aegyptiaca and some rose water and some sugar or honey and eat every morning and night.

Old and Chronic Headache

If you have chronic headaches, you should avoid smoking, alcohol, dust, smoke, and noisy places.

As a treatment, daily Rosa × damascena flower, Asarum europaeum, Mastic, Valeriana officinalis, Commiphora opobalsamum seeds and Commiphora opobalsamum wood 10 grams each, Aloe vera 5 grams, mix all and grind very smooth. Make a stiff paste with a little honey and make pills in the shape of balls and the size of a pea. Keep the tablets in the refrigerator and take 3 pills every morning, noon, and night. At night, dissolve Commiphora myrrha in a little rose water and apply on the head and sleep.

Resources:
1- Daeratol Maarif Giah Darmanie Iran (Noskhehaye Shafabakhsh), by Haji Sharifi, Ahmad (Attare Esfahani)