How does rubbing our temples or forehead help alleviate a headache?
In: Biology
Sometimes, moving lymph around eases pain. Lymph is clear liquid under the surface of your skin – kind of a gross example, but you know how when a pimple pops,first the dirt comes out, then clear stuff? The clear stuff is lymph.
The science behind it isn’t certain, but there are lymph drainage points at certain areas around your body. If you massage the lymph to the drainage point, it very very (VERY) slightly eases swelling and puffiness from those areas. From the facial massage videos I’ve watched, the drainage point for the lymph in your face is under your ears. So, if you massage the skin on your face from front (like starting near your nose, or from the center of your face near where your headache is) to back, moving toward the neck under your ears, it drains the lymph and it can ease a little bit of pain/puffiness, such as puffiness under your eyes.
This is just stuff I’ve learned from relaxing facial massage videos though lol, and after trying to look it up on Wikipedia it sounds like the science is out on whether it actually makes a significant difference.
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