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May 7, 2022|
A New Cure for Migraines: Acupuncture
Migraine management is one of the hardest medical questions to solve in the modern world. Millions of people suffer from migraines daily – and the standard options remain to take a pain relieving pill and hope for the best, or to lie down in a dark room for a day, wasting opportunities and your time for other events as well. Luckily, using acupuncture for migraines is a solution that many people are finding out about and realizing that it is a great treatment for regular migraines for both the short term and the long term.
First, one of the prevailing factors that cause migraines is stress. Acupuncture is a leading solution to absolve stress in the body – by stimulating certain puncture points on the body, hormone secretion is regulated by freeing blood flow in the body to rid of these stress-causing hormones such as cortisol and releasing endorphins, which is a chemical that essentially kills the stress causing hormones. By getting acupuncture treatment targeting stress, you can get rid of the leading cause of migraines and have less of them overall. However, acupuncture can target the migraines themselves directly as well.
Acupuncture targets 14 meridians along the body, which are the regulators of the body – if any of these have a disturbance of energy due to outside sources, (for example stress, as mentioned above,) then this causes pain in the body. This energy flow, “qi,” is preserved by stimulating these acupuncture points. For migraines, acupuncture can help by easing tension on the meridian that is causing the headache, and can alleviate some – and maybe all – of the pain substantially. This, combined with a diet that your acupuncturist can recommend to you – for migraines specifically, caffeine can aggravate the headaches, so you need to stay away from coffee and dark chocolate – can produce mindblowing results.
There was recently a review on 22 systematic clinical trials including 4,985 people who experienced major alleviation through acupuncture. 59% of these individuals experienced 50% drop of the frequency of their headaches in the proceeding six months, all having treatments frequently. Not only did the frequency decrease, but the severity of these migraines did as well.
Sources:
https://www.healthline.com/health/acupuncture-for-headaches
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2005290110600143
https://acupuncturistseattle.com/the-12-meridians-of-acupuncture/
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/acupuncture-for-migraines
