In China in olden times regular pain in the head was referred to as ‘headache wind’. This was a metaphor likening the unpredictable movement of wind and its ever changing nature. The Chinese way of describing this is getting you to imagine looking out into a garden, you see the grass and the treetops in a state of calm and then suddenly the grass will move and the trees will sway before returning to calm as the wind comes and goes and becomes big and small – its main characteristic being CHANGE.
Most people have heard of Acupuncture and understand that fine needles are applied to points on the body. However, what is little understood is that those points share common pathways or 'Meridians'. Meridians form a network of pathways in which the natural energy or lifeforce of the body 'qi' circulates assisting the movement of blood and other bodily fluids.
Meridians can be divided into two types: regular meridians and extra meridians. The regular meridians including the six yin meridians and six yang meridians . Of the twelve regular meridians six yang and one yin circulate or terminate in different parts of the head.
When exogenous pathogens attack the body this causes disruption to the movement of qi and Blood potentially blocking those meridians and the effects manifest themselves in the form of headache or Migraine (which is not only restricted to headache symptoms but nausea, vomiting, cold sweats and vision related problems,pain in the neck and shoulders may also be experienced).
The 6 different types of Migraine related headache are described below:
1. The YANGMING HEADACHE Includes forehead pain,cause superciliary pain similar to sinusitis symptoms, eyes pain ,upper tooth pain
3. TAIYANG HEADACHE that after occipital pain, low back of Cranium - some people will feel neck pain too.
5. PIANZHENG HEADACHE pain in forehead and both sides of the head.
6. QUAN HEADACHE is that the pain of the entire head, it is difficult to distinguish the specific location of the pain.
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