How migraines can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine – 20 years of headaches ended for one patient after 2 consultations
- Migraines are a common, debilitating disease that affect about 10 per cent of us – triggering pain, tiredness, nausea and other symptoms that leave us bed-bound
- A patient who suffered for 20 years saw a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner; chiropractic, acupuncture and herbal medicine cured her after two visits
A searing pain tugging at your eyeball, a throbbing pain on the side of your head: migraines affect around 10 per cent of the world’s population.
Migraines are the third most common disease in the world, and the seventh most debilitating. People with the condition may spend more than one-twentieth of their lifetime enduring attacks.
They can be bed-bound for days, during which movement, light, sound and other triggers may cause pain, tiredness, nausea and more.
Hong Kong-based traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner Samuel To had one such patient who had suffered severe migraines for 20 years. She had a stressful job and worked long hours.
“Whenever she had a short deadline or was stressed out by work she would get a migraine,” To says.
