At last, after many requests, I have created this herbal tea for migraines and headaches. Each herb is specially prepared as a T- Bag to making it easier to enjoy the pleasant flavor and soothing properties. This blend contains the profound head healer Wood betony and migraine eradicating, clinically tested, Feverfew, I also added some other herbal soothers in this tea including relaxing Lavender buds. It helps more than just the head, so be warned you might feel quite a lot better!
Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium ), a member of the sunflower family, has been used for centuries in European folk medicine as a remedy for headaches, arthritis, and fevers. The term feverfew is adapted from the Latin word febrifugia or "fever reducer. Feverfew is also used to treat menstrual irregularities, labor difficulties, skin conditions, stomach aches, and asthma.The recent reports of research indicate that continually taking feverfew extracts may decrease the symptoms of migraine headaches.
Feverfew gained popularity in Great Britain in the 1980s as an alternative to conventional medications for migraine headaches. A survey of 270 migraine sufferers in Great Britain revealed that more than 70% of individuals felt substantially better after ingesting an average of 2 - 3 fresh feverfew leaves daily. Several controlled human trials have been conducted using feverfew for migraine prevention and treatment. Overall, these studies suggest that feverfew taken daily as dried leaf capsules may reduce the incidence of attacks in patients who experience long-term migraine headaches.
The restorative benefits of the tea are the gradual result of continued use, so please keep up the tea and give it at least a good chance. herbs can be slow acting but longer lasting.
I have found that wood Betony is excellent for headaches of all sorts (tension and migraine alike), and beyond that have seen it to act in a decidedly restorative manner. I have noted several instances when, in addition to its more immediate effects, regular daily use of Wood Betony as a simple has decreased the frequency and intensity of chronic headaches until their occurrence was drastically reduced or even eliminated altogether.
In regards to "how Betony works", there are likely myriad factors at play. Like most mint family plants, it possesses both stimulating and relaxant properties. This may seem contradictory, but only if we make the false assumption that stimulation and relaxation exist at opposing ends of a spectrum. In truth, the stimulation is of the circulation of the body's vital energy, and the relaxation is of the resistance to that circulation.
Wood Betony also acts as a tonic for the digestive tract, and is believed to strengthen the solar plexus. The solar plexus is believed to house a person's instincts and intuitive faculties; this is why we have expressions like "gut feelings" and "trust your gut". By freeing energy trapped in the head and strengthening the solar plexus, Wood Betony will be of aid to people who ignore their gut feelings and try to intellectualize and rationalize all that goes on around them. We might imagine the person who meets someone and intuitively gets a "bad feeling" from them, but then chides themselves for being "judgmental" and then ends of in some baleful relationship replete with all the qualities foreboded by their initial impression. Wood Betony, I deem, is useful in such situations.
