Headaches are something people experience with varying degrees of severity and frequency. Whether it’s a tension headache, a migraine headache or a cluster headache, any form of headache can rob you of productivity, focus and impair your ability to perform even most basic daily functions. It’s even worse when your headache is accompanied by a throbbing pain, nausea or changes in vision.

Headaches are most often brought upon by stress, lack of sleep, hormonal changes (especially period time), eyestrain, hangovers, allergies, exercising too much, hunger or dehydration.

Instead of popping pills try these simple techniques to keep your system chemical free and headache free as well.

FOOT SOAK in MUSTARD and OLIVE OIL:

“A simple self-care technique is to do a mustard foot soak,” integrative medicine clinician Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH. says, “Take a bucket of hot water so that you can place your feet, and cover up to your ankles with hot water. Add a tablespoon of ground mustard, then massage some olive oil around your feet and ankles and soak for 30 minutes. The heat from the water and the mustard will draw down the vascular congestion and release constricted blood vessels in the head, bringing blood flow to the feet and alleviating pain”.