Someone asked me in the "Comments" as to how I was cured of Migraine in 1982.
I was a very chronic migraine sufferer, resulting in almost total paralysis and excruciating pain.
Since 1982 I have been completely and totally cured.
Annikki wrote this article in Findians Briefings sometime in the early 1990s.
I am reproducing this here as a service for migraine sufferers.
Migraine Cure
Free from India
by Annikki Matthan
Migraine from Mesopotamia to Scandinavia
The ancient cure in Mesopotamia for migraine involved drilling the head. Present day treatment, not a cure, in Scandinavia, requires the use of an expensive medicine, about $40 a time, which is reputed to be active even if it is taken at any stage during an attack, unlike earlier drugs which had to be taken before the onset of an attack.
There are over a couple of million sufferers of migraine in Scandinavia and all of them should be able to get rid of this terrible ailment if they desired without resorting to this temporary relief at high cost. Would you like to try and get rid of your migraine problem?
Jacob - paralyzed
Jacob was an acute sufferer. The attacks used to come on several times a year rendering him immobile. After hospitalisation and observation by experts, almost every known allopathic medicine was tried including caffeine tablets. Nothing worked.
The attacks would start and continue for a couple of weeks. They did not necessarily follow a pattern - when they came, they just came one after another.
Help from a non-medic
Our cook, seeing Jacob suffer, mentioned that her mother had suffered the same malady and had been relieved by a herbal medicine. Jacob was willing to try anything. The next day she brought a small bottle containing a brownish fluid. This was duly administered through the nostrils. The liquid was pungent and seemed to work.
For the next few days, till the next dose of the medicine, no attacks developed, although Jacob knew that they were still lurking in the background. This treatment went on for three doses, after which Jacob was fit and well and able to get back to work.
The cook told us that this was not the permanent cure but only a temporary one. A particular ingredient was not available at that time to administer the permanent cure.
Free for two years
Jacob was then free from migraine for close to two years. For various reasons he never got around to getting the permanent cure. We moved and lost track of our cook, hence we were not able to get the medicine.
Migraine restarts
The migraine attacks restarted, after two years, with the same intense intensity as earlier, rendering Jacob totally immobile. A factory worker, seeing his boss in such suffering, mentioned that there was a lady in his village who could cure Jacob. Jacob was again prepared to try anything as the caffeine tablets had absolutely no effect in stopping these attacks.
Village visit
Jacob went to a small village to the hut of an elderly lady. She offered him tea and biscuits. After the social chit-chat the lady asked Jacob to lie down on the bed. She went into the garden for a couple of minutes. When she returned she was rubbing the palms of her hand together in the process of crushing some leaves. After about a minute she squeezed her hands together over a spoon on the table and a green liquid oozed out onto the spoon. There was about half a teaspoonful of the liquid. She slowly poured it into the right nostril as Jacob suffered one-sided migraine, which was on the left side of the head.
The effect
Jacob recalls the next few seconds very vividly. It was if some searing hot lava had been poured into his nostril. He felt wretched and wanted to throw up. He jumped from the bed and ran outside to get rid of the terrible sensation that was grasping his throat. When he spat out his saliva there was a dark green colouration.
The onlookers laughed as they watched these antics which probably lasted about a minute or two. Then the searing feeling rapidly subsided. The lady offered him a cup of tea, which was most gratefully accepted. She indicated that although another dose would be worthwhile she felt as the reaction had been so strong, it was unlikely that the migraine would ever return again. This was in 1982.
Fifteen years on
Now it is fifteen years on and Jacob has not suffered a single attack of migraine nor even felt that there was an attack lurking in the background.
The cost
The cost for this treatment - absolutely nothing, no, not even $1, no presents, no grateful gifts in thanks. Jacob returned to ask the lady whether she would give him the name of the leaf that she had used. She explained that this art had been passed down from mother to daughter over several generations and it was strictly against her philosophy to pass on the information to anybody other than her daughters.
Jacob accepted the explanation for he knew that if he took the remedy and commercialised it, the love, affection and dedicated service of this lady to the people in the surrounding communities would be destroyed. A multinational would probably only think of the profits that could be generated for its shareholders by the drug.
Other alternative medicine cures
There are probably several types of alternative medicines out there for migraine, as also for many other ailments, if one looks for them. Jaundice is an ideal example where at least 10 different treatments are available in India.
It is strange that in some western countries they frown upon alternative medicine as if it is some hocus-pocus, untried form of treatment. They refer to allopathy as the scientific tested medical approach, scoffing at alternative forms of medicine. Surely these are really the illiterate as they do not realise that this hocus-pocus of alternative medicine has been around for many thousands of years. None of them has resulted in a phthalidomide type case.
It is better to realise that western allopathy drug treatment is the untested and untried medical technique. No doubt the analytical and surgical techniques used in allopathy are outstanding, but be very vary of the drugs - most of them do not cure, they only suppress the symptoms.
It is more likely that a remedy for an ailment, without harmful side effects, can be found in many of the alternative medical techniques that abound amongst the indigenous people around the world, including the African, Chinese, Indian, Egyptian and Maya Indians, especially amongst those who have preserved their heritage and not lost contact with nature and become a part of this commercial world.
Return visit in 1993
In 1993 Jacob paid a visit to the village to see if the lady was still around. She was very happy to see him. She would not accept any gift so Jacob bought a few night-dresses that her son was stitching as his trade as a tailor. Everyday he gives thanks for the kindness shown by this woman who cured him from his misery.
However, on our recent visit to India (2009) we tried to find the small village where the lady in question lived. We were so overpowered by the chaos, that we did not try very hard.
I had made my penance to her almost 15 years ago.
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