World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF MIGRAINE- A CASE STUDY

*Dr. Ashish Mahajan and Dr. Sukhdev

ABSTRACT

Migraine is a benign and recurrent syndrome of headache, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms of neurological dysfunctions in varying admixtures. It is as one of the diseases where cause is exactly not known. Migraine, the second most common reason for cerebral pain afflicts around 15% of women and 6% of men. With the disease afflicting majority of the people in their prime age i.e. from second decade to fifth decade, it is affecting their professional and social life, hampering their health. Ardhavabhedaka can be scientifically correlated with Migraine due to its cardinal feature ‘half sided headache’ and also due to its paroxysmal nature. All the three doshas are involved in the pathogenesis of the Ardhavabhedaka with the predominance of Vata or Vatakapha. Episodic migraine (EM) is characterized by <15 headache days per month and chronic migraine (CM) is characterized by ?15 headache days per month. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that there are 3000 migraine attacks occurring daily for every million population. A 35 year old male patient with complaining of severe headache which disturbs his routine work and hamper his productivity came to OPD. He was taking Allopathic medicine, Tab. Sumatryptin. Raktamokshana (Bloodletting) was done. Godanti Bhasma 250mg OD, Sutashekhar Ras 250mg BD, Shirshuladivajra Ras 250mg BD, Pathyadi kadha 20ml BD with equal amount of water was given. Virechana (therapeutic purgation) was given with Icchabhedi Ras. After Virechana patient got upto 90% relief in headache. He was advised to completely stop smoking.

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