Tried-and-tested home remedy for headaches Coffee with lemon

Home remedies: Espresso with lemon for a headache

When it pounded and buzzed in your head, you do not have to resort to medicines right away. Most home remedies for headaches can also help. One of them is coffee with lemon juice. Even with a migraine attack, this combination can be useful.

Treat headaches with home remedies

In headaches, many people inevitably resort to medicines such as ibuprofen, aspirin or acetaminophen. For example, the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) recently reported that every tenth German consumes at least one headache tablet daily. That can be dangerous. Because if taken incorrectly and frequently, painkillers can cause permanent headaches. For milder ailments, simple tricks for headaches are often more effective than remedies anyway. Among other things, coffee with lemon can help.

If you have a headache, it may help to drink a cup of strong coffee into which the juice of half a lemon has been squeezed. (Image: dimakp / fotolia.com)

A cup of coffee with the juice of half a lemon

If you have a headache, it may help to drink a cup of espresso into which the juice of half a lemon is squeezed. No sweetener may be added to the drink.

Even as a home remedy for migraine, the combination comes into question.

Like the neurologist Dr. med. Astrid Gendolla from Essen explains on the internet portal "chronicigraene.de", a cup of strong coffee with the juice of half a lemon can provide relief in light migraine attacks.

According to the doctor, the blood vessels in migraine are narrowed in the brain by the caffeine in the coffee.

And the vitamin C from the lemon can, according to Dr. med. Gendolla increase the formation of a body's own messenger substance, which dampens the headache.

However, if you are constantly suffering from headaches, you should not rely on home remedies, but consult a doctor. (Ad)