Does Butterbur Migraine Really work for Migraines?

Conventional medicines have worked wonders for millions of migraine sufferers to find relief of the relentless pain of their migraines, clusters, and tension headaches. There's no doubt about it.

And it would be a miss informative web site if I tried to say that many take migraine preventive medicine that has been prescribed by doctors, and found no migraine relief.

The fact of the matter is, many migraine sufferers have found a doctor prescribed medicine that works for them. We have several pages on migraine abortives. When you have a full blown migraine, no herb or preventive that your doctor has given you will take the pain away. That's when you need something such as a Imitrex to help you out.

What we're talking about is butterbur migraine giving you less, and less days of that terrible pain, and also giving you less intensity of your headaches.But for many migraine and headache sufferers they kind of get the cart before the horse.

For instance, when my wife started to have migraines, she just knew that a pain pill helped her pain.

And how many of us grew up not knowing that a pain pill was just that. If we had a pain, the best way to make it go away was to take something (a pain pill) for it.

That's the reason we never go to the doctors office, and he/she will write down all of the Vitamins, Herbs and even minerals that will help us.

Conventional medicine will always be top dog.

Right now, clinical trials suggest that supplements such as butterbur migraine, feverfew for migraines, Riboflavin B-2, and magnesium which is a mineral, (very important to our bodies) are just as effective as the most powerful drugs available, but with few, if any side effects. Sound pretty good? It does to me. For instance I suffer with Gout. I'm starting to be blessed with it to the point that I either go and have a prescription wrote for it $$$$, and have some unwanted side effects, or turn to a natural alternative for the prevention of it.

And that is consuming delicious cherry's. But you have to eat about twenty cherry's a day, or consume Black Cherry Juice, and that has a tart taste. After I start to feel better, I make a mistake of not drinking the juice, and eventually get a case of gout again.

So after several times of suffering with gout, I went to the best place for vitamins,(I think) Puritans Pride, and got some Cherry Capsules. Bought two, and got three free.

While you take butterbur migraine, keep on the watch for something that is triggering your migraines.

I get Gout because of foods that I eat, and you can have migraines because offoods, beverages, stress, sleep habits, and so forth.

Sometimes I suggest to my wife (notice I said suggest) that if you take a natural preventive or a prescription preventive, and know that something such as Aspartame (talked to some that know that this triggers headaches) is going to trigger a headache, then you have defeated the purpose of taking the medicine, herbs, or vitamins in a sense. Not only does butterbur migraine root extract help adults but has also been studied for migraine prevention in children, and adolescents.

Here's something to give thought to when thinking about taking butterbur migraine.

As we said above, many factors can give you migraines. Sometimes it may take a couple of factors to trigger a headache or migraine, and then maybe one will succeed. Even some side effects of conventional medicines can give headaches when they are prescribed for headaches.

But butterbur has no such side effects. Native Americans used butterbur hundreds of years ago for inflammation, and headaches. One of the best ways to find out if a drug, herb, vitamin, or mineral will help migraines is to look at clinical studies.

And in the case of using butterbur for migraines, here is another study.

The most common side effect of butterbur is burping. As a side note for many of you that are taking prescription medicine, let your doctor know what you are planning to do.

Other than butterbur for migraines there is also magnesium for migraines, riboflavin for migraines, and feverfew for migraines.

(One side effect of feverfew is that it can decrease the bloods ability to clot. If you have a blood disorder, don't use it)

But all in all, the side effects are much less than are found in prescription drugs. Helping migraines and headaches is just one benefit of these supplements. Each one has many more benefits in your body. And a inadequate supply of several can trigger headaches.

Our last page covered a vitamin also used for migraines called niacin, and our next page has even more info about migraine herbs for your headaches.

We wish you the best for your headaches

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