400: Using Essential Oils for Headaches with Dr. Sarah LoBisco, ND, IFMCP
The Essential Oil Revolution - Health, Purpose, and Aromatherapy
Dr. Sarah LoBisco
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🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
What You Will Learn:
- How the aromatic and physical properties of essential oils can help to restore the body back to balance as they address symptoms.
- The prevalence of headaches and what the most common symptoms are.
- The classification of headaches (primary, secondary, and cranial neuropathies).
- Common types of headaches and their symptoms (tension, migraine, and cluster).
- Common causes and triggers of headaches. These include low blood sugar from intermittent fasting, hormonal imbalances, gut issues, environmental exposures, nutrient deficiencies, and lifestyle factors.
- How to use the acronym “SNOOP” to determine if a headache is serious.
- Conventional and functional medicine laboratory blood work that can help determine the causes of headaches.
- Conventional treatments for headaches.
- Why we need to address the root cause of headaches.
- Some natural solutions for addressing headaches.
- Why peppermint and lavender were the essential oils I chose to review for headache relief.
- The concept of synergy and how it relates to essential oils.
- The two symptoms I use in my practice to indicate using peppermint oil may help a headache.
- The chemical makeup of peppermint oil and its various mechanisms of actions.
- The meaning of amphoteric and how it relates to essential oils.
- How peppermint oil can get to the root causes of headaches.
- The three symptoms that co-occur with a headache that would lead me to select lavender oil for relief.
- The chemical makeup of lavender essential oil and its mechanism of actions.
- How lavender oil can address the root cause of headaches.
- Studies that reported on the use of lavender oil for migraine headaches and prophylaxis.
- How to use essential oils for headaches.
- Additional resources.
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Resources
My Blogs, Videos, and Research Reviews on Headaches and Essential Oils:
- When Your Head Hurts: Headache Causes, Common Types, Red Flags That They are Serious, and Naturopathic and Functional Medicine Tests to Help Find the Cause
- My Aching Head! Naturopathic, Functional, and Mind-Body Medicine to Soothe Headaches
- Lavender Oil: The Go-To Essential Oil that Soothes the Brain, Lowers Anxious Symptoms, Calms Stress, Decreases Head Discomfort… and More!
- Peppermint Oil: A Powerful Ally for Digestive Health, Brain Support, Head Discomfort, and Much More
Links to Learn More About My Offerings and Education on Essential Oils:
- My Essential Oils Community Membership
- My Resource Page
- My CEU Course for Practitioners on the Clinical Use of Essential Oils
Previous Episode on the Vagus Nerve with Additional Resources:
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