Cayenne Pepper For Migraine Relief

 I've been doing a lot of reading about ways to reduce my carbon footprint and keep my family healthy through natural living. One aliment that I've alway suffered from is skull splitting, debilitating migraine headaches. My normal routine to cure the headache would be take an apirin, draw the shades, and sleep it off.

Well, now that I am a mom, that will not always be possible. I woke up today with a migraine and needed to find a quick, inexpensive, natural remedy that was safe for a breast feeding mom. I was looking into reflexology, but that takes a half hour of hand massage. Who on earth wants to give them self a massage while they have a migraine? Not I!

To my surprise, I saw Cayenne pepper popping up on a lot of websites as a cure for sinus and migraine headaches. The first website on which I read about it was yahoo answers. I do not find that site very credible for medical advice so I wrote it off as nuts. Then I saw it on a breastfeeding support website that I frequent KellyMom.Com. This changed my opinion slightly. I also found information about it on LiveStrong. I also read a few comments on forums from people who have tried it.

It struck me as interesting and it was worth the shot. The worst that could happen is it burns and doesn't work. The burning can't be too bad. To quote Organic Lifestyle Magazine " If you think this sounds too painful, you probably don't know the pain of migraines" 


So I poured a tiny bit of Cayenne Pepper on a spoon, dipped the tip of my pinky finger in the pepper, but only picked up a few grains, stuck my finger just inside my nostril, and snorted. It initially made my nose watery so I sniffed a few more times to make sure the pepper stayed in. I repeated the process on the other side. Yup, It definitely burned, but not so bad. After a minute or so my nose was watering like crazy so I blew it to clear it out (this probably would work well for clearing a stuffy nose!).

I was skeptical. Yes, my nose was burning and I could no longer feel the headache. Was it because I was to focused on the burning or did it actually work. Well, let me tell you. About 5 minutes later, my nose stopped burning and my headache is gone!! I am a little in shock and very pleased to have a new remedy for my migraines! Next up... allergies.