Recent studies have suggested that Chinese medicine can help alleviate migraines.
I first became aware of how effective Chinese medicine can be in treating migraine headaches in 1978. At that time I was living in Cambridge, England where I was teaching yoga. One of my students, Anna, had started classes because she was suffering from chronic back pain, insomnia, fatigue and migraine headaches. Within a few weeks of starting her classes Anna’s most of Anna’s complaints had eased, but what had not changed were her migraines. They persisted with devastating regularity.
At that time there were very few acupuncturists in England, but fortunately one lived nearby and Anna decided to go and see him. Within a few weeks of treatment Anna’s migraines were greatly reduced and after further treatment they ceased altogether. I was very impressed by this radical improvement in Anna’s health and went to see her practitioner. At that first meeting I was immediately fascinated by what I learnt about Chinese medicine. One of the things that I found most compelling about this tradition of medicine was the emphasis on treating the primary cause of an illness. I began reading about the different traditions of acupuncture and within a couple of years I had begun my own training.
