Migraine Headaches Support Group

Migraine is a neurological disease, of which the most common symptom is an intense and disabling episodic headache. Migraine headaches are usually characterized by severe pain on one or both sides of the head and are often accompanied by photophobia (hypersensitivity to light), phonophobia (hypersensitivity to sound) and nausea.

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Boswellia

marabella
marabella

I finally met with a headache specialist and thought he would be the typical doctor, prescribing pharmaceuticals with horrible side effects but he offered the herb Boswellia and said it has good results for a lot of people.  It should arrive this week so I will let you all know. 

YvetteK
YvetteK
Good luck with that. But I would just caution this: it is an herb, therefore not regulated by the FDA. Since it is not regulated, there is no testing for consistency of potency. So whatever the strength is on the bottle, you may be getting 10x less, or 10x more, or nothing at all. Basically it's a crap shoot. But that's the case with any vitamin or supplement not regulated by the FDA.

Definitely give it a try and see how it works for you. I'd rather take something natural than chemical if it actually worked. Let us know what type of results you get. I've never heard of this herb used for migraines before, so I'd be very interested. Good luck to you!!
Boannie
Boannie
Please keep us posted. I am really interested in natural approaches to fighting pain. Currently CBD oil is my saviour. I had to go two years without migraine meds because the insurance company only wanted to pay for Immitex. I can't take it because it put me into shock the last time. So if there is another natural herb that can help, I am excited.
Community Leaderacuriousfish
acuriousfish
Just to add to what Yvettek said the quality control on the "herbal medication" is astonishing.

A study done in Canada (I think) showed that 40% of the supplements tested did not contain any of the claimed ingredient. But they found alot of other plants which were clearly arable filed weeds, including Senna (which you get senna pods from) so it is literally as she says "a crap shoot". It seems this stuff was being harvested outside of the US or Europe - it seemed to be North Africa or Asia - so bear in mind arable weeds in those places include things like Datura.

There is also the question of what the filler in the capsules / tablets are - amazingly the most toxic materials have been used in those countries rather than what would appear to be the most obvious, cheap and benign materials.

So you really don't know what you are getting.
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