If you’re on this site for the first time, you’ll see that we have plenty of different natural remedies for PMS symptoms, including just about every symptom. We believe in addressing the causes of migraines before or during your period, as well as cramps, mood swings, breast tenderness, and a lot of other PMS issues.

We believe that home remedies for menstrual migraines as well as other PMS symptoms are the best way to go. Medications have negative side effects that can harm or even kill you, but no woman ever died from red raspberry tea or chasteberry tree herb capsules.

The fact is that the herbs that have been used over the centuries are ones that are safe. If they weren’t safe, then women wouldn’t have kept using them!

This seems like it’s common sense, yet the scientific world wants proof for everything. Honestly, do you ever feel that they should stay with their medical world and leave the natural healers alone?

It’s a no-brainer that herbs shouldn’t need to be researched in double blind studies; just ask a well-trained herbalist and you’ll get good answers about what herbal remedies you need to relieve menstrual migraines or for any other reason.

There are four broad categories of natural treatment remedies for menstrual migraines: vitamins and minerals (including a period vitamin), herbs, lifestyle changes, and relaxing strategies.

Other articles on this site have covered many of these holistic strategies, especially the vitamins and minerals. They also go into depth about the period vitamin that you take once daily and can count on it providing the vitamins and minerals you need to support your body during your period.

The relaxing strategies include relaxation training, warm baths, and also simply just chilling and not taking anything to heart to get offended about. Relaxation training is training to teach yourself how to recognize the least amount of tension in your muscles. Once it’s identified, you simply let the tension go.

The Jacobson method of relaxation is the best one to learn because it gives you the opportunity to relax every muscle in your body, and by the time you get to learning how to relax your head, you’ve already relaxed over 70% of the muscles in your body.

The more muscles you can relax in your body, the more profound of an effect you’ll see on your body physiologically. For example, your blood pressure will lower itself, and that’s important because blood pressure increases whenever you have pain, including migraines.

You can also take a warm bath to relax you. However, many women are sensitive to the chemicals in bubble bath, so skip the fake bubble bath soaps. Instead, you can use a natural soap such as peppermint castile soap, which is liquid and purer. You might also add some different essential oils to the warm bath water. These are a sure way to induce relaxation into your physiology.

You could also add magnesium salts – called Epsom salts – into the water of the tub. Add one to two cupfuls. This is a pretty inexpensive remedy and what it provides for you is magnesium. Your skin will soak up the magnesium. This is important since migraine sufferers tend to be very low in magnesium. (By the way, a red blood cell magnesium test is the one you would want to see where your levels are.)

Always remember you have a lot of choices for dealing with menstrual migraines that are natural. You don’t need medication.