How To Cure a Headache With Acupressure

  • May 13, 2009
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Instead of reaching for a pain pill, massage away a headache using acupressure, the traditional Chinese curative technique of applying pressure to certain points of the body.

You Will Need

  • Two hands

If you feel pain when using acupressure, stop immediately. Pregnant women should not use acupressure.

How To Cure a Headache With Acupressure: Press your temples

Step 1: Press your temples

Using your index and middle fingers, apply pressure to the muscles by your temples – an area that holds a lot of tension. Keep up the pressure on this point, and the following ones, for one to two minutes.

Pinpoint the correct spot by clenching and unclenching your jaw and feeling for throbbing.

How To Cure a Headache With Acupressure: Move to your ears

Step 2: Move to your ears

Move on to your ears: Using your thumbs, massage the area underneath the large bones behind your ears, using a circular motion. This corresponds to GB-20, an acupressure point that can relieve many kinds of headaches.

How To Cure a Headache With Acupressure: Press between the eyes

Step 3: Press between the eyes

Pinch the skin on the bridge of your nose, between your eyebrows – an area known as the “Third Eye” point – and press it upward.

How To Cure a Headache With Acupressure: Try your hand

Step 4: Try your hand

Finish up by squeezing the fleshy web of skin on the back of your hand between your thumb and index finger with the thumb and index finger of the other hand. This connects to the acupressure point LI-4; massaging it is particularly effective on sinus headaches. Do both hands.

How To Cure a Headache With Acupressure: Congratulate yourself

Step 5: Congratulate yourself

Congratulate yourself for getting rid of your headache without the aid of modern medicine.

The average pharmacist offers advice to about 19 customers a week on over-the-counter headache remedies.

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