Migraine is a type of vascular headache, mostly female patients. Traditional Chinese medicine belongs to the scope of “headache”. It is believed that due to careless daily life, feelings of wind, cold, dampness, heat and other evils, emotional disorders, fatigue caused by fatigue, improper eating, physical weakness after illness, and internal injuries caused by falling and internal injuries. , Collateral occlusion, qi and blood imbalance, obstruction of clearing yang, pain if blocked. The clinical features are periodic attacks, mostly daily, and at least once every few years. Each episode lasts for hours, days, or even dozens of days.

Before the attack, there are often visual hallucinations such as flowers, flashes, and sparks on the left or right eyes. The headache often appears on the opposite head after the visual hallucinations disappear, and can spread to the entire head. The most common sites are the temple, forehead, and posterior orbit. The etiology is related to systemic infection, fever, post-seizure, acute craniocerebral injury, allergic reaction, high-altitude hypoxia, hypertension, menstrual period, and vascular autopathies.

Clinically, migraine can be divided into two types according to whether there are symptoms of aura before the attack: migraine without aura and migraine with aura.
 

1. Migraine Without Aura

 
Migraine without aura, also known as ordinary migraine hong kong, accounts for 80% of the total number of migraines. Most migraines belong to this type.

Such patients often have no obvious aura symptoms before the onset of headache, and a small number of people will experience general weakness, fatigue, loss of appetite and other manifestations.
 

2. Migraine With Aura

 
As the name suggests, this type of migraine will have aura symptoms before the onset, the most common visual aura, such as dark spots or flashes in front of the eyes before the onset.

In addition, sensory auras may appear, often manifested as acupuncture and numbness in the upper limbs and face; language auras, often manifested as language barriers.

The types of migraine are complex and diverse, and the common ones are: typical migraine, ordinary migraine, periodic migraine, basilar artery migraine and so on.
 

Different Types Of Migraine Have Different Clinical Symptoms

Ordinary migraine is manifested as:

One side or both sides, and some have the entire head, the headache is mild, generally within the patient’s tolerance. After taking analgesics after a short break, the symptoms can be significantly relieved.
 

Typical migraine manifestations are:

One-sided headaches are mostly in the head, forehead, temples, and temples on both sides. It can be confined to a certain part, or it can be extended to the whole side, and the onset time is 4 to 72 hours.
 

Take You To The Right View Of Migraine

1. Avoid Anxiety

Many people are worried that their head hurts so much, but they can’t find out whether there is a disease that they don’t know is malignant, and they are stuck in anxious mood all day, a vicious circle. In fact, after a migraine is diagnosed, do not do too many unnecessary checks, let alone try various home remedies. Research from the American Health Association shows that headache or migraine does not increase the incidence of brain cancer.
 

2. Avoid Being Too Casual

Contrary to the above, there will be some people who believe that this is an old problem and are used to migraines. Every attack will be relieved with painkillers, and their habits will not change. They will not leave their hands like smoking or drinking. Although migraine does not directly damage brain cells, long-term migraine can cause memory loss and lack of concentration.
 

3. Ensure Adequate Sleep

It is especially important for people with migraines to ensure regular sleep, refuse to reverse day and night, maintain a regular schedule, and go to bed and get up regularly even on holidays.
 

4. Exercise Regularly

For people with migraines, exercises that emphasize breathing training and pranayama (such as yoga, Tai Chi, jogging) can help patients stabilize the autonomic nervous system, relieve anxiety, muscle tension and other symptoms.