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Student and Therapist Newsletter Archive
- Headaches - Migraines
+ Migraine question. - May 07
+ What do you do for headaches? - January
06
***QUESTION***
Hi John,
As always, these newsletters give me great insight, so thank you for supplying
us with it!
A friend of mine suffers really bad migraine and I'm about to start looking
for the reason. I don't know if it is always the same thing that is wrong
or if the causes are many and varied. I happened to be there when my friend
got really bad with the migraine, so I tried to help. Someone else
who was there said migraine comes from the stomach meridians being blocked
and building up too much pressure, giving pain behind the eyes (linking
in with the light fenomena sufferers experience) and vomiting.
But when I sat with my sick friend and started to tune in I got the feeling
that that is only the symptom, that the cause lies elsewhere, and her
pineal gland was very persistently engaging with me and giving me the
idea that the cause may have to do with the pressure of fluid inside the
head.
What is your experience in finding and treating the cause of it?
Eva Kuhl Bornefelt
Central Coast
Australia
>>>MY COMMENTS:
The first thing that stood out
to me about your migraine question is when you said, 'I'm about to start
looking for the reason.' I encourage you to
change this approach. I have found it much more effective to let
the reason find you.
Instead of actively looking for the reason, which is a very
active dynamic. I encourage you to trust the persons system and
be available for the
reason to reveal itself to you.
On the nuts and bolts department the pain behind the eyes
can often indicate tentorial tension.
This happens because of the recurrent, meningeal branch of the mandibular
branch of the trigeminal nerve. It can be referred pain from the
tentorium.
If you were being drawn to the pineal gland then I would
go with that. Because you also mentioned a feeling of pressure I
would check the integrity of the aqueduct of Sylvius. If it is restricted
it can cause backpressure problems. You can read about a woman I
treated with this very problem here. http://www.cranio.ie/cases/intracranialtension.html
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***QUESTION***
John,
What do you do for headaches?
B.M.
Illinois.
>>>MY COMMENTS:
Well usually I take some Panadol and make empty promises
to myself that I will never drink again.
When it comes to treating people with headaches it’s
probably most helpful to think about headaches in the way Eskimos think
about ice.
In English we have 1 word for Ice. In Eskimo they
have something like 15 words for ice. That’s because Eskimos encounter,
well, lots of ice. So they are intimately aware of the subtle differences
between one kind of ice and another.
Cranio sacral therapists, given time, could probably
come up with at least 15 different names for the different types of headache
that people get. . . . and that would be just off the top of their head
at a dinner party.
Pressure headache.
Tension headache.
Sutural headache.
Dehydration headache.
Toxic headache.
Membranous headache.
Extra cranial tension referral headache.
Trauma headache.
Migraine headache.
Ache in the head.
Eye strain headache.
Trigeminal headache.
Neuralgic headache.
Mandibular headache.
Sinus headache.
Energetic – epileptic headache.
Scared membrane headache.
Emotional distraction headache.
I’d better stop, the other people at the dinner
party think I’m strange.
So there is no ONE thing for headaches but I can point
you towards some tendencies in the causes of headaches.
Headaches are often part of a symptom picture.
If main symptoms are cars, then headaches are the CD players they nearly
all come with now.
Tension in the membrane system will nearly always
show up as a headache of one kind or another. So look for the origin of
the tension. Remember it’s all connected and the root cause is rarely
at the site of pain.
Trauma will usually get embedded in the membrane system
and bring on headaches in the same way.
Fluctuations in cerebro spinal fluid pressure in the
head often bring on headache symptoms. So find the cause of the fluctuations.
Look to the plumbing. Start at the bottom and work up.
Respiratory diaphragm.
Thoracic inlet.
Fascial neck mobility.
Atlanto-occipital joint.
Jugular foramina and all the things that can upset them.
Temporal bones, tentorium tensions etc.
The sinus system.
The ventricular system.
It’s more common for there to be too much cerebro
spinal fluid in the head than too little. What with it being pumped in
and having to drain out and everything.
Toxicity can come from lots of different sources and
can often bring on headaches too.
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