Thank You Michelle Gantt Davis for sharing this.
A little long but wanted to share my rosemary / migraine story. I have shared before but was reminded again this week how life changing it has been for me. Most of my life I have had chronic migraines, 4 or 5 a week sometimes lasting for several days at a time. I couldn’t even tell you how many medications, both prescription and over the counter that I tried. Some helped, most didn’t , nothing got rid of these headaches. The ones that helped made me so sleepy I felt like I wasn’t able to function like I should. I even joined trial medication migraine studies at the recommendation of my doctor, kinda scary to think about now. One day while cooking I nibbled on some fresh rosemary. Within 30 minutes my migraine was gone. At first I thought just a coincidence but decided to try it again with my next migraine and it worked! I was eventually able to stop all migraine medications and as long as I nibble a little rosemary every few days I seldom got a migraine. But then my rosemary plant died, busy with work and the holidays I kept forgetting to buy another. Had a few headaches but nothing major and debilitating until yesterday. I ended up taking something over the counter for the first time in years, didn’t help at all. Hubby offered to go buy a rosemary plant while I tried to sleep it off. Just that little nibble of my new plant and my headache eased up tremendously! I had let it get too bad to work in one dose but after using the rosemary several times it was gone!! Thankful God provides us with his natural remedies!! Thankful that hubby went out in the weather to come to my rescue!!
(I chew 2 or 3 of the little leaves if at the onset of a migraine. If that doesn’t help, I wait 30 minutes and chew a few more. 1st usually works, if I wait too long I need 2 doses)
****Just a reminder if you choose to try, rosemary, it can interfere with some medications and shouldn’t be used if you are pregnant or trying to get pregnant so research before you try.
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