Migraine
Treatments for Migraine
Conventional treatment is drug based either as prevention or for acute
episodes. Some of these have been associated with serious side-effects
in the past.
The most effective treatments in our hands involve identification and
avoidance of food triggers (clinical ecology), acupuncture, homeopathy
and herbal medicine. Manipulation has some evidence of benefit and relaxation
techniques have also been shown to be effective.
Food exclusion techniques will have long term benefit in 85% of patients
and 60% of patients treated by acupuncture show some improvement. There
is one good clinical trial which demonstrates significant benefit using
classical homeopathy and another showing that the herbal medicine feverfew
can reduce the number of migraines in a significant number of patients.
We use a combination of these techniques to try and achieve the best
result for each patient.
