Migraines are a type of neurological disorder characterised by intense, recurrent headaches often accompanied by other symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light and sound. These headaches can last anywhere from a few hours to several days and vary in frequency and intensity among individuals. They have a massive impact on the quality of life, reliability, social engagements, ability to travel and for many this means loss or reduction of income.

The exact cause of migraines is not fully understood, but it is are believed to result from abnormal brain activity affecting nerve pathways and chemicals in the brain. Triggers can include stress, certain foods, hormonal changes, lack of sleep, and environmental factors. In homeopathy this is richness of information and it guides me to remedies ‘beyond diagnosis’ and to cure rather than management of these.

Homeopathy for Migraines

Homeopathy is a system of alternative medicine that uses highly diluted substances with the aim of triggering the body's natural healing processes. For migraines, homeopathic remedies are selected based on the individual's specific symptoms, overall health, and personal medical history.

Some of the remedies that we may use for migraine relief include nauralgic pains that are so hard to treat conventionally:

• Belladonna Migraines characterised by sudden onset and intense, throbbing pain. Person is very sensitive light and noise.

• Nux Vomica May be used when migraines are accompanied by nausea, irritability, and sensitivity to odours, often linked to digestive issues or stress. Headache in occiput or over eyes, with vertigo; brain feels turning in a circle. Oversensitiveness. Vertigo, with momentary loss of consciousness. Intoxicated feeling; worse, morning, mental exertion, tobacco, alcohol, coffee, open air. Pressing pain on vertex, as if a nail driven in. Vertigo in morning and after dinner. Scalp sensitive. Frontal headache, with desire to press the head against something. Congestive headache, associated with hæmorrhoids. Headache in the sunshine (Glon; Nat carb). Feels distended and sore within, after a debauch.

• Bryonia: Vertigo, nausea, faintness on rising, confusion. Bursting, splitting headache, as if everything would be pressed out; as if hit by a hammer from within; worse from motion, stooping, opening eyes. Headache becomes seated in occiput. Drawing in bones towards zygoma. Headache; worse on motion, even of eyeballs. Frontal headache, frontal sinuses involved.

• Gelsemium: Applied when migraines are preceded by fatigue, dizziness, and visual disturbances.

• Iris versicolor migraines come with blurry vision and pain that extends to the face and teeth. There may be vomiting and a burning feeling in the throat and stomach. The person feels worse from resting and better from motion.

• Sepia Is a great hormonal remedy adn Left-sided migraines come on near menstrual periods or during menopause. There is dizziness and nausea, soothed by eating. A person needing Sepia feels weary, cold, and irritable, they don’t want anyone to make demands on them.

• Nux muschata is an interesting remedy where we may see migraines parallel to vaginal prolapse. The person zones out and cannot stay awake.

• Chelidonium experiences coldness of occiput from the nape of neck and the head feels heavy as lead. Right-sided headache down behind ears and shoulder-blade. Neuralgia over right eye, right cheek-bone and right ear, with excessive lachrymation (tearing), preceded by pain in liver. The person feels heavy, lethargic and drowsiness is very marked. There is an inclination to fall forward.

• Lac canimum pains are erratic pains that start one one side and move to the other. Occipital pain extends like a shooting to forehead. The sensation is as if brain were alternately contracted and relaxed. Noises in ears. Reverberation of voice. The person feels like they are walking or floating in the air. Blurred vision, nausea and vomiting come on at height of attack of headache. This is another remedy that can help balance the hormones as well as deep feelings of abandonment, worthlessness and poor treatment, helping the person to regain their power.

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• Silicea is a great remedy for migraines that come on after mental exertion or near the menstrual. The person tends to be nervous and very chilly. Headaches are usually right-sided, starting in the back of the head and extending to the forehead, and are worse from drafts or from going out in the cold without a hat. The person may feel better from lying down in a dark, warm room and also from covering the head.

• Sanguinaria: Is another right-sided migraines that starts in the back of the head and spreading forward.

  TCM Traditional Chinese Medicine

What many of these remedies have in common is that they have an affinity to the liver. We know from the Traditional Chinese Medicine how the yang (heat) energy that rises from this organ can contribute to headaches and migraines or/and high blood pressure. Liver is the responsible organ for that. Alongside liver we have headaches that are mitigated by the imbalance in the gall bladder that are of one sided/unilateral temporal presentation. Knowing this we can narrow our choice of homeopathic remedies to those that have affinity to the gall bladder as well as do qi gong exercisers that involves dai mai channel to regulate the gall bladder.