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Frequent attacks of headache, migraine or non-migraine
variety, have proved to be a pain in neck not only for the
patients who have it, but also for the physicians who treat
them. In this small write-up, we shall limit discussion to
the migraine headache.
What is migraine headache?
Well, migraine headache has been described as an episodic,
paroxysmal headache, usually but not necessarily affecting
one side of the head; which may or may not be associated
with giddiness, nausea, vomiting or visual impairment. The
painful episode of migraine is usually intense and lasting
for half an hour to over a couple of days.
The Cause: How does it occur?
The exact cause often remains unknown. It has been proved
that migraine is a vascular disorder. Due to some triggering
factors, varying from person to person, there is some kind
of vasoconstriction and vasodilatation of the branches of
the carotid artery ( the major neck blood vessel) which
leads to typical throbbing and congestive attack of
headache.
While the exact causation in unknown, it has been observed
in practice that migraine is often psychosomatic in origin.
There are migraine personality and we have observed in a
study of a series of migraine patients at our center, that,
there is also a common thread in the migraine personality
type.
Many independent studies at various institutes have also
shown that most migraine sufferers show one or many of the
following behavioral patter : conscientiousness,
fastidiousness, rigidity of views, constant conflict between
the environment and self, high level of expectation.
Migraine sufferers are more females than males. However, we
are observing a shift. Often observed to be running in the
family, showing hereditary links.
The symptomatology of migraine:
Migraine headache is a subjective experience. The commonly
described pain is typically throbbing, bursting, hammering,
or shattering. The pain might start on one side or a spot on
the head and spreading to any other place. Ocular areas
often affected. The pain is usually severe, intense and
tends to be associated with nausea, giddiness and
generalized sense of malaise. Many patients feel relieved if
there is vomiting.
The episodes of pain are periodic, may be weekly, daily ,
fortnightly, monthly or irregular.
Migraine and other similar
headaches:
Migraine headache should be differentiated from other
similar painful conditions where the headache could be due
to high blood pressure, sinusitis, Trigeminal neuralgia,
temporal arteritis, tension headache, etc. A good clinician
can help the patient arrive to a correct diagnosis.
Homoeopathic treatment for
Migraine:
Migraine has been believed to be an obstinate condition to
treat. However, it is a common experience of the
practitioners of homoeopathic system of medicine that
migraine is curable.
What is homoeopathic approach to
migraine treatment ?
The homoeopathic approach to the treatment of migraine
patients is more individualistic. This means, homoeopathy
believes that migraine is a personality disorder and hence
the treatment should be determined only on the basis of
in-depth study of the patients' personality. This approach
helps treating most cases of migraine successfully.
Homoeopathy treatment is essentially safe and absolutely
harmless, which may be taken along with any other medicine,
if required.
Many parts of the world are still deprived of qualified and
experienced practitioners of homoeopathy. To help this
limitation, we have designed a Long-distance Treatment
Protocol for migraine, allowing the patients
anywhere-in-the-world to get themselves treated.
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