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MUSTARD SEED – HEADACHE.
Source: Practical nursing, p. 133, By Louise Henderson · 1919
Headache is a symptom of importance in disease and it may also be caused by slight digestive disorders, constipation, over fatigue, nerve strain (particularly of the eyes). The tendency to headache may, in many cases, be overcome by correcting these irregularities. The direct effect of headache pain is usually from congestion of blood in the head, which causes pressure on the nerves. Or it may be that tension, over-fatigue, etc., affects the nerves directly.
Treatment.
Try to remove the congestion by drawing the blood away from the head by such effective methods
as: hot mustard seed foot bath, mustard paste between the shoulders just below the neck, heat or cold over the seat of the trouble, hot water bottle to the feet or to the back of the neck. Have patient lying down to rest the nerves, with the head high and the eyes protected from the light.
Nebraska Folk Cures Published 1935
Pauline Monette Black
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Put a mustard plaster on the back of the neck and one under each foot. Let then stay on about five minutes and then remove. The headache will be gone.
Mustard Remedy - Romanian Folk Remedy
Ground mustard
A ground mustard poultice, applied to the back of the neck, between the shoulders, is good. Or, use 2 teaspoons of mustard powder dissolved in a few inches of bath in your tub and soak your feet in that for about 10 minutes.
