Migraine is a neurological condition characterised by intense headache which is associated with nausea, vomiting, heaviness of head, sensitive to light and noise.
Typically headache is confused with migraine. Headaches are unpleasant, debilitating pains in head mainly frontal, temples and back of neck. They could be mild to severe. Stress, muscle strain and anxiety can trigger the headaches.
Headaches like cluster headaches (occurring on one side or come in clusters), sinus headaches (headache with sinus infection like stuffy noise, cold, congestion and facial pressure) are completely different from migraine headaches.
Most of migraine headache are without aura and some with aura. Migraine can begin in childhood and women are most likely to have migraine than men.
Migraine headaches presenting with aura (means a sensation a person experiences before the attack of migraine). These sensations last for about 10-30 mins before the attack. These can include feeling of numbness and tingling in the face or hands, flashing lights in the vision, trouble thinking and having an unusual sense of smell or taste.
Symptoms include
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Pain behind the eyes.
- Sensitive to light and noise.
- Light headedness.
- Temporary vision loss.
- Seeing spots in the vision.
- Dizziness or faint feeling.
Causes
Causes are not known. But hormonal changes in women, stress, sleep disturbances, irregular eating habits, weather changes, excessive physical exertion, etc. can trigger migraine attacks.
Homeopathic approach
Homeopathic medicine has good remedies for headaches of different origins. Remedies like Sang can and Spigelia are helpful in one sided headaches. Headache due to over exposure to sunlight, remedies like Natrum carb and Natrum mur are helpful. Headache caused due to delayed meals, Antim crud is found helpful. Headache associated with nausea and vomiting, Iris vers is the best choice of remedy. These remedies are helpful to cut down the number of attacks and help appropriately.
At Gouri Homeo Healthway best suitable remedies are given to see the number of attacks reduce gradually and reduce the intensity of your headache simultaneously.