Monthly Advice

Migraine Regimen

1. Do not skip breakfast
2. Well- balanced meals in time.
3. Avoid the following items.
   • Cheese and other dairy products as they contain tyramines.
   • Vinegar.
   • Citrus fruits and juices.
   • Beans.
   • Bananas.
   • Plums.
   • Raisins.
   • Avocados.
   • Processed meat like sausages, bacon, and salami as it contains Nitrates and Nitrites.
   • Chocolates.
   • Pizza
   • Pork
   • Red wine as it contains tyramine.
   • Champagne
   • Coffee, tea, hot chocolate, cola etc.
   • Chinese food and processed food as it contains Monosodium glutamate (Ajinomotto)
   • Artificial sweetening agents like aspartame, Chemicals like nitrites, MSG, Caffeine, tyramines and Aspartame are known to trigger Migraine.
4. Always Include.
   • Dark green leafy veggies like broccoli, peas, spinach etc., as they are rich in calcium & Magnesium as calcium and magnesium tend to reduce head ache or migraine
   • Wheatgerms, sea foods.
   • Fish & fish oils.
   • Oats.
   • Garlic.
   • Peppermint, Cayenne pepper, ginger
   • Fresh meats, poultry and eggs.
   • Magnesium, riboflavin, vitamin B5, C, & E supplements regularly.
   • Follow a low carbohydrate diet.

In Vathika type head ache, it is suggested to drink either ghee or gingelly oil followed by milk. The patient is allowed to take green gram, horse gram, black gram and hot and spicy food items mixed with ghee at night time followed by hot milk. It is also advised to give gingelly paste along with milk, hot meat soups and hot milk with normal food.

Ashtanga Hridaya Utharasthana – 24/ 1-2

Sushrutha Samhitha Utthara Thanthra – 26/3, 26/10

In paithika type head ache, it is advised to take plain ghee internally.

Sushrutha Samhitha Uthara Thanthra – 26/17

In Kaphaja type head ache it is advised to take yava and Shashtika along with thrikatu and ksharas. Patient is also allowed to take Patola, green gram, horse gram etc. along with meat soup.

Sushrutha Samhitha Uthara Thanthra – 26/22

In Sooryavartha and sankhaka it is advised to take Jangala Mamsa along with milk and other rice varieties.

Sushrutha Samhitha Uthara Thanthra – 26/28-29