Ayurveda and Migraine: Understanding, Remedies, Medicine
Migraine is a painful health concern that can make your day-to-day life challenging. Whether one is dealing with migraine, at some point in time, they might have heard about it and how inconvenient it can be to manage.
The nail-biting, nerve throbbing headaches it causes usually scares most people. However, there’s more to it.
If untreated for long, the pain can start shifting to other areas of your head. Plus, the pain keeps growing severe, and in the worst cases, this neurological concern may leave you in bed for days.
Fortunately, with the proper treatment and remedies, it’s possible to manage migraines.
In this blog, we discuss migraine treatment in Ayurveda, along with a few home remedies for migraine.
What is Migraine?
Modern medicine defines migraine as a neurological disease resulting in a throbbing headache that can cause severe pain accompanied by a pulsating sensation, usually on one side of the head. In most cases, migraine can also result in nausea, vomiting, and unusually high sensitivity toward sound and light.
Most of the time, the pain areas are the eyes, neck, nose, head, and face.
Moving further, modern medicine categorizes migraine pains into the following eight types:
- Migraine with aura
- Migraine without aura
- Migraine without head pain
- Hemiplegic migraine
- Retinal migraine
- Chronic migraine
- Migraine with brainstem aura
- Status migrainosus
When a migraine headache crops up, it may last between four to 72 hours or more.
Ayurvedic medicine for migraine takes a holistic approach to treating and managing them. In the next section, let’s try to understand how Ayurveda perceives migraine and how it offers remedies. #Migrainetreatmentindubai
Causes of Migraine
The exact cause of migraines is not fully understood, but research suggests that they are complex neurological disorders involving multiple factors. Some factors that may contribute to migraines include
- Genetics: Migraines tend to run in families, suggesting that there may be a genetic component to the condition.
- Environmental triggers: Certain environmental factors, such as changes in weather, exposure to bright lights or loud noises, and certain smells or odors, can trigger migraines in some people.
- Hormonal changes: Changes in estrogen levels, particularly in women, can trigger migraines. This is why migraines are more common in women than in men.
- Lifestyle factors: Certain lifestyle factors, such as lack of sleep, stress, and irregular eating habits, can trigger migraines.
Ayurveda’s take on Migraine
According to Ayurveda, migraine (Ardhavabhedhaka) is a concern that crops up due to an imbalance in the Dosha levels. This shift in the Dosha levels can cause poor eye health, disturbed sleep cycles, inability to concentrate and focus, and loss of productivity.
To manage this concern, Ayurveda takes a more comprehensive approach, covering the symptoms and root cause(s).
Ayurvedic treatment for migraine pain includes:
- Thorough detoxification.
- Home remedies include the purest homegrown ingredients.
- Lifestyle changes.
- Refined diet.
- Relaxation processes help ease the pain.
Also, as Ayurvedic remedies for migraine do not require lab-synthesized drugs, substance overdose can not happen.