Is acupuncture effective enough to prevent hormonal migraines from occurring?

For quite a while now, acupuncture has been a valid treatment for tension headaches and is now slowly but surely being a valid and acknowledged treatment for many types of headaches and migraines, including hormonal migraine headache.

The evidence from numerous past and recent studies is encouraging and migraine is a condition among many where the evidence of acupuncture’s potency as a treatment is strong enough to be as effective and in many cases even more effective than conventional therapies for the treatment of hormonal migraines.

There are many different types of migraines and they develop from various causes according to both Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. An article found in the Journal of Chinese Medicine reports that there are 57 kinds of migraine. One piece of information that gets the attention of TCM practitioners is the fact that the migraine develops mid-cycle, where a lot of cycle-related migraines are likely to arise just prior or just after a woman’s period.

Traditional Chinese medicine’s (TCM)’s view of the body’s physiology is quite different from that of Western medicine. TCM bases the physiology of the of the body on the circulation of vital energy known as ‘qi’ as well as the functional comprehension of the internal Organs which to TCM are not merely physical things that work in their specific location but functional organs that can carry on working even when the physical organ has gone. This implies then that menstrual cycle’s physiology, when understood and expressed in these terms, can determine the peaks and flows of the cycle that can help to understand why certain symptoms arise. A licensed and experienced practitioner will be able to comprehend the symptoms and restore the balance of qi accordingly. Sometimes the symptoms may not directly be associated with a certain physiological problem and so it important to remember that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) views symptoms as alarm bells telling that certain body systems are out of balance whether it relates to the physiological problem or not.

The TCM way of treating a condition is to make sure qi is flowing freely throughout the body. Acupuncture needles are used to remove qi stagnation and blockages, repair deficiencies and excesses and bring back balance to the body systems. Obviously, this presupposes that you believe in the workings of traditional Chinese medicine which unfortunately a lot of western medical practitioners don’t.

For hundreds of millions of migraine sufferers have gotten well with acupuncture in Saratoga Springs. This therapy is a powerful, safe and effective treatment that one should seriously consider. It definitely is able to resolve hormonal migraines.