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Ayurveda Management & Approach

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Dear
Thanks for contacting Ayurveda with your health concern and after reviewing your case history following opinion can be deduced:

1. since you have been to numerous doctors, even then I must mention the following points so that you can let me know whether every possibility is excluded or not:

i Since as a daily routine one must check/test the following signs:
- Blood Pressure for Hypertension.
- Sinus Tenderness over maxillary & frontal sinuses, and look for any focus of infection in teeth, tonsils & ears.
- tenderness on nape of neck or pain on neck movements.
- if associated fever, check with neck stiffness.
- Check eyesight for any refractive error and blood sugar for low glucose in blood.

PS If there is any neurological sign found by General Physician he may refer you for Neurologist's opinion please

2. If all the above mention symptoms/examination are normal then we can safely manage the disease on the line of 'Ardhavbhedak':

i. One should avoid precipitating factors like: sleeping late, tension, starvation, chocolates, cheese, alcohol, dry food, excessive sex and suppression of natural urges, excess physical/mental exertion.

ii. During acute attack: lie down in a dark and quiet room and give ice bag over the head.

iii. some of the safe and result oriented medicine which can be given/practiced in Migraine are:

. rub onion paste to opposite feet.
. put 2-3 drops of coconut water into nose.
. apply garlic pod paste on forehead. . put 4-5 drops of lime juice into opposite side nostril.
. put 2-3 drops of white onion juice in eyes.

- purified til tail: 280 ml
kapoor-chandan-dalchini: 10 gm each i.e. [9 ml ] mix all the ingredients and safely put in a bottle: you can use 4-4 drops as massage or put in ears
- grind small pippali 1/2 gm into powder and lick with 10 gm honey.
- use of cephagraine drops or after inspection which part of head is affected
- use of 10 drops of mustard oil in same nostril.[right or left]
- early morning after wash room, eat roasted chana [roasted chickpeas]

PS.
- chana should be well chewed and must be warm
- after making sure headache is in which part [right/left], put 3-4 drops of 'kagzi nimbu' in that side of ear.
. crush RIPE grapes and drink [don't add water in it] .

iv. Take:
. Cereals: wheat
. Pulses: Black gram
. Fruits & Vegetables: brinjal, XXXXXXX pomegranate, grapes [black], garlic, drum stick [shigru]
. Others: clarified butter, oil,milk,coconut water,sour vinegar [kanji],sesame
. Lifestyle: massage on head, gentle pressing, rest

v. Avoid:
. Cereals: special variety of rice [kodrava,sanvaka]
. Pulses: green gram,pigeon pea,peas,chickpea
. Fruits & Vegetables: jambu,bitter gourd.
. Others: betel nut, excessively heavy food
. Life style: excessive exercise, suppression of natural urges, use of uneven bed, night awakening.

vi. Prescription medicines which have given me effective results with proven efficacy is/are: vrihat vaat chintamani ras, mahalaxmi vilaas ras, godanti bhasma, dashmoolarisht, shadbindu tail, cephagraine tablets/drops, pathyadi kadha,makarprash,sarak churan [If interested I can courier you the result oriented medicine with dosage

3. Nicip plus is a combination of painkiller [Nimesulide] and analgesic and antipyretic [Paracetamol] and is generally given in mild to moderate pain conditions and common side effects include constipation, excessive flatus/gas, high blood pressure,gastritis,loose stool,increased sweating, and anemia [some could also be due to natural aging proocess] so to avoid the confusion one should not take it in old age.

4. alternative which he can take are described above.

5. regarding permanent solution, treatment of migraine either is prophylactic [preventive] or abortive [rescue], and prevention of migraine attacks should be the goal of therapy.

Dr. Munish Sood
Consultant Physician
Naimittika

direct online link: bit.ly/drmunishsood

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