CUPPING
In my country when the people get headaches, they have home remedies: We use cupping. We take special glass cups. First, we wrap a small cloth on the end of a thin stick, then we put it in a cup of oil, take it out, burn it with a small fire, then we put quickly this thin stick into a glass cup and we hold this cup and put it quickly on the back of patients about five minutes. This treatment includes about ten glass cups for one patient.
COINING
Or
we use coining. We take an old coin or an army dog tag. First, we
rub chinese oil between the eyebrows. We continue to rub this oil
along the back of the patient and rub the coin along the back
until the patient's skin becomes red.
[written by Hai Van Bui and Kim Nga Thi
Nguyen]
STEAM
When I have a headache and I feel too tired, I buy a bag of medicinal leaves (1/2 pound of lemon leaves, ginger, and I don't remember the others). I put it in a pan with water and cook two minutes. Then I sit on the bed and I take a blanket and put it over ny head and my body, then I put the pan of boiling water under the blanket with me. I sit about 5 minutes under the blanket and breathe long and slow. I take two tablets of Tylenol, then I eat hot rice soup with onion and pepper, then I go to sleep.
[written by Kim Thoa Thi Truong]
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When you get a headache, you can take Tylenol. Tylenol is
acetaminophen, that means acetaminophen is the medicine inside
Tylenol. You take two caplets three or four times daily.
