Treating Headaches with Acupuncture

Course overview

In Treating Headaches with Acupuncture we discuss the meaning of a headache, two main types of headaches in western medicine, main traits of a primary headache, other rare types of primary headaches, meaning of secondary headaches, more severe causes of secondary headaches, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms of a migraine, causes of tension and cluster headaches, warning signs of low-risk benign headaches, and high-risk critical headaches, meaning of old and primary headaches, new headaches, treatment and management of migraines, occurrence of tension type headaches, treatment of cluster headaches, treatment of secondary headaches, statistics, occurrence of headaches in children. How TCM views headaches, endogenous headaches, differentiation of headaches, shi type and xu type of headaches, treatment according to TCM, points chosen, points based on signs and symptoms in TCM, effect of acupuncture on headaches, ear acupuncture for headaches, and various patterns of headaches according to TCM with clinical signs, tongue and pulse signs, treatment principles, herbal formulas and body and ear points including moxibustion techniques.