According to the World Health Organization, half to three quarters of adults aged 18-65 years in the world have had headache yearly.
The definition of headache is pain in any region of the head. The pain can be a dull ache, a sharp prick pain, a heavy pressure pain, a radiating pain or a throbbing pain. All these types of pain can occur on any part of the whole head. It may occur on the frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital area of the head. The headache may occur on one side of the head, both sides or the whole head.
So what are the causes to trigger a headache. According to Harvard Medical School (online article written by Heidi Godman on March 30, 2020) there are 7 top triggers for having a headache. The seven triggers are Stress, Diet, Alcohol Intake, Environment, Hormones, Caffeine withdrawal and Lack of Sleep.
How to get help from professional practitioners for headache?
For Western Medicine, medical doctors normally prescribe a category of analgesic medications to help reduce patients‘ headache pain.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners on the other hand, always do the Syndrome differentiation first and to find out whether the headache is affected by Exopathogenic factors such as Cold Wind, Heat Wind, Damp Wind or by Endogenic factors such as Liver Yang Excess, Kidney Deficiency, Blood Deficiency, Blood Stasis and Stagnation of Phlegm.
Thereafter Syndrom differentiation, TCM Spezialisten select the treatment method such as acupuncture treatment or a natural herbal teas to help relieve the patient’s headache or migraine pain. In order to make the treatment effective, a treatment plan with a homecare advice such as dietary changes, exercise regimens, stress relief management will be discussed with the patient to achieve a relative Yin Yang balance of the whole body systems for reducing the frequency of headache episodes and eventually lessening or getting rid off headache episodes.
The TCM Spezialistin Rachel Fang at our TCM Spezialisten GmbH Praxis is specialized in treating all kind of headaches including migraine headache pain.
She will be too happy to help relieve your sufferings of headache.