Headaches Begone! A Systemic Approach To Healing Your Headaches

By Stas Bekman

This is an unusual book since it will teach you how to look at your migraines and other kinds of headaches in a systemic way. Usually headaches happen not because something is off somewhere in your body, but most of the time due a combination of several internal and external factors. This book helps you understand the reason you get headaches by looking at your whole body, mind and environment as a system. And once you understand what aspects need to be fixed you will be able to heal your headaches. 

The book also provides a compendium of specific solutions that you may use on your healing path. 

I figured out how to eliminate my migraine headaches and so can you! You get all my extensive research compiled in this book.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Stas Bekman
• Release date: Sep 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386567028

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Headaches

Begone!

A Systemic Approach

To Healing Your Headaches

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By Stas Bekman

Publisher: Stasosphere Online Inc.

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© 2016 by Stas Bekman http://stasosphere.com/

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

This publication is designed to provide accurate information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering professional services.

The suggestions made in this book are not a substitute for medical advice. If you have frequent, recurring headaches, talk to your doctor.

First Digital Edition, April 2016

This book is dedicated

to my migraine headaches

that made this book possible.

Table of Contents

Introduction1

A Very Brief Introduction to Headaches and Migraines  5

My Personal Journey with Migraine Headaches9

My Role in Your Healing Journey11

Part I. Prevention14

Chapter 1. Your Environment16

Chapter 2. Your Body32

Chapter 3. Your Diet44

Chapter 4. Your Mind48

Part II. Treatment58

Chapter 5. Do-It-Yourself Therapies59

Coming Soon Near You70

Chapter 6. Holistic Remedies72

Chapter 7. Vitamins & Supplements75

Chapter 8. Herbs, Spices, Seeds & Nuts89

Different Types of Herbal Preparations90

Application Methods94

Safety95

Herbs, Spices, Seeds & Nuts97

Even More Herbs128

Herbal Tea Formulas129

Herbal Tincture Formulas129

Herbal Compress Formulas130

Herbal Pillow Formulas131

Essential Oil Blend Formulas132

Proprietary Herbal Formulas134

Chapter 9. Fruit & Vegetables137

Chapter 10. Psychoactive Drugs141

Chapter 11. Holistic Therapies145

Chapter 12. Surgical Procedures155

Chapter 13. Electronic Devices156

Chapter 14. Mental Exercise Systems160

Chapter 15. Esoteric Solutions162

Chapter 16. Folk Remedies166

Beliefs and Superstitions166

Part III. Appendices170

Appendix A. Headache and Migraine Resources170

Recommended Books on Headaches and Migraines  170

Online Resources on Migraines and Headaches  171

Comments, Errata And Revisions172

Please Write Your Review Of This Book173

Acknowledgements174

About The Author175

Also By Stas Bekman176

Index179

Introduction

If you have been suffering from headaches and migraines for a significant amount of time and you’re reading this book, chances are that you haven’t found something that works well enough for you to have a better, headache/migraine-free life. I have been on this searching path for many years now, sometimes giving up for long periods of time, then getting inspired again to try and find the elusive cure for my migraines. What I found in my research is that there are many different kinds of headaches and migraines, with many different triggers and causes, so not all cures and cop­ing techniques work the same way for everyone. What works for one person may not work for 999 others.

The important thing is not giving up and keeping on trying new ideas. When you read through this book, you will be astonished to discover many ways of dealing with migraines and headaches that you have never heard of; some of which may sound very ridicu­lous. Yet there is at least someone out there for whom those odd methods did bring, if not a cure, at least a very sought after relief.

This book tries to be as exhaustive as possible, so I included ev­erything I could find through reading multiple books, encyclope­dias, forums, social media groups, websites and talking to other people who suffer from migraines and headaches. The only ex­ception is pharmaceutical products—you won't find any in this book. Based on my research, most pharmaceutical drugs cause bad side-effects and often require you to take even more drugs to deal with those side-effects, adding even more side-effects to the mix. This simply doesn't sound like a sustainable strategy.

The goal of this book is to present ideas for controlling, diminish­ing and hopefully curing migraines and headaches. Due to its en­cyclopedic nature, not all entries provide the step by step instruc­tions or all the nuances. Once you are inspired to try something, you can easily look up the exact details online. Think of this book as a map. Exploring the specifics is left to you, as only you know exactly what you need.

There are more than 200 ideas in this book, so if you get over­whelmed and don't know where to start, use your intuition. I rec­ommend to first browse through the book quickly to understand how it's organized, and then go through it a second time and see which ideas stand out for you. Ask your heart to tell you what ideas sound/look/feel good to you and try those first.

Make sure to read through both the prevention and the treatment parts of the book. Even though you may feel that a treatment is what you need, prevention might be the best path for you because it means you don’t need a treatment anymore.

I decided not to link directly to most of the sources of information due to the volatile nature of the Internet, where websites change their links or simply delete pages without any regard to anybody linking to them. And often, whole websites simply disappear. Therefore, if you read this book a year after it was published, in­stead of hitting on many dead links, you will find the latest, fresh­est information by conducting a simple search.

I provided links to amazon.com and a few other websites, where relevant, in order to help you find the best products. I find amazon to be one of the best resources because it has the highest number of customer reviews, and usually you can quickly get an idea of whether or not you want to pay your hard earned money for a given product. The links are just to guide you to the doorway; please use your own discernment to make choices about which products appear the be most suitable to you.

Due to the digital format of the book, when linking to Internet re­sources, I use shortlinks. If you read the book on a computer, just clicking on the link will take you to your destination. However, if your digital bookreader doesn't support Internet browsing and can't take you to where the link is pointing to, you may have to type the link directly into your browser. Just remember that the links are case sensitive.

The ideas in the book come from a mixture of scientific research and studies, other books, personal accounts posted on various fo­rums, message boards and blogs. Some ideas, with which the sci­ence disagrees, miraculously work for people who tried them. In fact, most non-conventional ways of healing are either disre­garded by science as quackery or placebo. Recently, a lot of re­search has been done on the placebo effect as an actual healing method. Quite a few inspiring books have been published on the subject of placebo (http://amzn.to/1TmGavC), and I believe any person would benefit from shifting their disbelief even a little bit. My personal take on this is very simple: if I do something that science says is not valid, yet my migraines and headaches greatly diminish or disappear, what do I care what the science thinks? If I can make myself headache-free, that’s all that matters.

Regardless of whether the ideas worked due to the placebo effect or because they have a healing merit according to science, they are listed here so that you have the freedom to make your own choices. With any idea that you feel you'd like to try, please re­search and read up on it before you try it so that you approach it with an educated point of view.

Remember that many of the listed methods, especially for herbs and supplements, have counter-indications that you need to be aware of, so please make sure to look up those before trying any­thing. If you're pregnant, it's almost guaranteed that anything you will think of trying will have a warning not to try when pregnant. But there are quite a few ideas that you can use if you’re preg­nant. The other large group of counter-indications is for those who already take any other medications or herbs, as most can in­teract and cause all kinds of undesired side-effects. While you can easily find the information about specific counter-indications on­line, I highly recommend consulting a professional who under­stands the science of interaction between anything you take into your body, which is usually someone who studied nutrition. There are a lot fewer potential issues if you try one thing at a time. But even then, please be careful and study before trying things.

As you read online commentaries, beware of product competition and companies posting bad and discrediting comments and re­views against their competitors. The same goes for some of the astro-turfed glowing reviews by companies that pretend to be consumers of the product. Learn to tell a genuine review from a fake one, which at times can be very difficult.

A Very Brief Introduction to Headaches and Migraines

A headache is when your head hurts. If your head hurts, you have a headache.

There are many different types of headaches:

●  allergic headaches

●  cluster headaches

●  exercise headaches

●  ice cream headaches

●  migraine headaches

●  new daily persistent headaches (NDPH)

●  ocular migraines

●  rebound headaches

●  sex headaches

●  sinus headaches

●  spinal headaches

●  tension-type headaches

●  thunderclap headaches

●  trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia headaches

This list is far from complete; there are probably another 20-30 kinds of headaches out there.

Migraine headaches have several classifications and sub-divi­sions, one of which has only two sub-categories: migraine headaches with aura (MWA) and without it (MWOA).

Migraines headaches typically belong to the type of headaches caused by vasodilation (expansion) of the cranial blood vessels, while non-migraine headaches are due to vasoconstriction (nar­rowing or constriction). But it's not always the case.

A headache may be a mild or a severe.

It may be intermittent or chronic.

The pain may be located:

●  in the front of the head

●  toward the back of the head

●  on one or both sides of the head

●  in one or both temples

The pain could be:

●  dull

●  intensely unbearable

●  throbbing

●  pressure-like

●  penetrating

The onset of a headache could be preceded by early symptoms (prodromes) such as:

●  blurry vision

●  dizziness

●  numbness

●  physical weakness

●  ringing in the ears

●  sensitivity to light

●  tingling

●  visual aura - seeing lines and zig-zags, partially losing vi­sion, etc.

Any of these symptoms may disappear