Give up pickled food, cheese, smoked fish, onnuts and chocolate. These are the first to be avoided. Alcohol and non-vegetarian diet may shoot up your headache. One can include salads into his diet. Green leafy vegetables containing roughage will be beneficial as they prevent constipation and so the headache.
Caffeine is contained in many food products like cola, chocolates, coffee and tea and many of the analgesics or anti-cold tablets. Caffeine in lower dose may increase the alertness and energy but in higher dose it causes irritability, anxiety, headache and insomnia. Furthermore, the people who consume high levels of caffeine regularly are more susceptible to develop withdrawal headaches when they stop taking medicines.
Chocolate, wine, Monosodium glutamate (MSG) and nitrates are very well known factors creating headache. Strong beverages and chilled cold drinks are to be avoided.
Ayurveda believes one has to restrict food that aggravates Vata Dosha or Pitta Dosha. Spicy, oily, decayed food and stale food are strictly to be avoided. Ayurveda denies eating any kind of pulses or grams during the attack. Light diet is adapted; this may include rice or corn flakes and vegetable soups.
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