by Darrell J. Stoddard   Copyright 1998

A neurologist specializing in headache treatments responded to an Ann Landers' column in which it was suggested that a banana peel across the forehead and across the back of the neck would help relieve headaches, perhaps because of the potassium in the peel. 

The doctor stated, "Headache is not always a minor disorder that responds easily to such simple cures.  Each month in the United States, approximately 3 million days are spent in bed by headache sufferers.  Many of these people are in excruciating pain, unable to tolerate even the light from a bedside lamp or the sound of a child's step.  Some vomit repeatedly.  For them, trying to cure a headache with banana peels is like trying to irrigate the Sahara by spitting." 

I have measured the electrical resistance at the site of pain in more than 18,000 patients and categorically state my belief that pain is caused by the breaking, cutting, failure, or suppression of electrical signals between cells in living tissue.  With headaches this often occurs across the forehead and across the back of the neck. 

When I read the column, I couldn't run fast enough to get a banana to find out how well the peel would conduct an electrical signal.  Just as I thought, banana peels are excellent conductors. 

Putting the inside of a banana peel next to the skin across the forehead and another across the back of the neck may therefore help to heal the root cause of many headaches (by reconnecting the broken circuits that I believe are the cause of pain); this, instead of just masking the pain with medication that may have harmful side effects. 

Pursuant to the above and instead of banana peels,  Biotape.net, Inc. has produced a conductive silver  "Headache Band."  It is adjustable to fit all sizes, goes all the way around head and may be washed and used an unlimited number of times. Hundreds have been sold with a money back guarantee and less than 1% have been returned. 

Following is a response from a headache sufferer: 

"To Whom it may concern,
I have suffered severe headaches since 1967 when I fractured my back ejecting from a  jet during combat in North Vietnam.  I have the headaches almost 24 hours a day. 

About a month ago Darrell gave me a headband to use for my headaches.  These headbands are wonderful!  I wear them almost constantly to prevent headaches - even sleeping with it on.  I notice that while I am wearing it I seldom have a headache.  If I take it off, my headache is back within a minute. 

I have loaned my headband to a number of persons suffering from headaches, sometimes for only a few minutes before they hand it back saying their headache is gone.  I highly recommend these headbands to anyone suffering from headaches." Robert Houghton,  Major USAF (Ret)

Subsequent to writing the above letter Major Houghton injured his back and had severe pain (sciatica) clear to his foot.  He taped his headband along the route of pain from just below his knee down to his foot.  The pain went away.  He also reported that after wearing the headbands for about three months, the headaches are now better and he doesn't have to wear the headband anymore.  For the first time in 26 years, Robert Houghton is free of headaches! 

Another Conductive Silver Headache Band Story:

August 13, 2002

Dear Darrell Stoddard,
I am writing to request another conductive headband.  My Mother, Susan Tiede, purchased one from you a little over a year ago for my husband.  He gets migraines three or four times a week and is in bed many hours.  Since he has been using the conductive headband he has spent next to zero hours down with a migraine.  He often wears the headband all day long, but he is able to work, concentrate, and enjoy life more fully.  I have witnessed the miracle of this headband almost daily.

I am now pregnant and seem to get headaches a little more often myself.  The headband has made it possible for me to go on with life.  Lately, my husband and I have taken turns wearing the headband.  I have also lent the headband to friends who have had migraines or headaches.  They have commented on the difference it makes the second they take it off. 

As you can tell our conductive headband has had TONS of use and is getting a little worn out.  I have enclosed a check for $20.00 to purchase a new one.  Thank you for the amazing change it has made in our lives. 

Sincerely,
Sharina Adams,  Cedar City, Utah

A banana peel is much cheaper than a silver headband.  Try banana peels first and if that helps, then you may want to consider a Conductive Silver Headache Band. 

More tips for stopping headaches:

Dehydration is a major cause of headaches because dehydration pulls water from the brain.  This causes the electrical signal's in the head to fail which may be the cause of the pain.  Drinking more water, with the chlorine removed by evaporation or through a carbon filter, could stop most of your headaches.  (Distilled or reverse osmosis water may not work because too many of the minerals have been removed to conduct an electrical signal.)

I was discussing the above phenomenon with Dr. Verl McBride, Ph.D. who has spent a lifetime successfully helping children and adults with learning disabilities by synchronizing the hemispheres of the brain using patterning exercises. 

Dr. McBride suggested another way to stop headaches: Put a patch over one eye. After several minutes if it doesn't work, try the other eye.  Putting a patch over one eye, visually eliminates the disharmony of the hemispheres of the brain which may be causing the headache.  There are also several exercises that do this.  One is crawling on your hands and knees without turning the head with the eyes following the hands.

Another way to stop headaches is by taping "Biotape" across the forehead. Biotape is not as easy to use over and over again like the silver Headache Bands, but it is effective for the same reason - it connects the "Blocked Chi" (broken electrical signals between cells) in the forehead that the Chinese believe is the cause of pain.

I treated an elderly lady for chronic migraine headaches using Auricular therapy.  Then I put a strip of Biotape across her forehead telling her to just try it for an hour or two.  "Just see if it helps," I said.  "You don't have to leave it on because of how strange it will make you look."  I saw her about 10 days later and she still had the strip of black Biotape across her forehead. "You even wore it to church?" I asked.  "Yes," she said. "I didn't care what anyone thought.  That was the first time in years that I didn't have almost constant migraine headaches." 

My own Banana Peel Experience:

"A very sharp knife up under my skull, just above my right eye"

That's exactly how it felt to me in the middle of the night.  I had stopped to stay with my 90 year old mother on my way to Idaho.  When I went to bed I had just a hint of a headache.  Then, in the middle of the night, I woke up with the sharpest headache I have ever experienced.  It felt like someone had driven a very sharp knife up under my skull, just above my right eye.

What could I do?  There would be no more sleep that night.  Then I remembered some bananas on the kitchen counter.  I got one and laid the inside of the peel over my eyebrow and eyelid.  IMMEDIATELY, the second the peel touched my eyelid, the pain was totally gone!  I thought, I can't believe this. I took the banana peel off and as quickly as the pain stopped, the sharp knife shot back up under my skull again, almost making me scream. 

This is impossible, I thought. It couldn't happen that fast. Am I dreaming?  For the sake of science and objectivity, I had to try it one more time.  Removing the peel brought the same sharp knife and the same excruciating pain.  Then, again, the same blessed instant relief.  I left the banana peel in place, went to sleep, and woke up without a headache.

Whenever or wherever you hurt, try banana peels held in place with an ace bandage. It will amaze you how much it helps (to relieve and even correct what causes the pain).

Darrell Stoddard