About the migraine headache self-treatment with TCM Gua Sha

Some basic knowledge about the Migraine headache.

Migraine is a common type of headache that may occur with symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, or sensitivity to light. Migraine headaches generally represent no significant threat to your overall health. However they can be a long-term (chronic) problem and may interfere with your day-to-day life.

Migraine headaches tend to first appear between the ages of 10 and 45. Sometimes they may begin later in life. Migraines occur more often in women than men.

In US there are about 78 millions of people have experienced migraine attacks. It is painful and occurs irregularly. There is no specific cure by modern medicine, and their goal is to prevent symptoms by avoiding or changing your triggers.


TCM diagnosis the migraine as a problem caused by the internal organs.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treat human as a whole system, but not the composite of different organs and human tissues. TCM considers migraine headache as a result of disturbance or imbalance of Yin-Yang within the Zang-Fu organ system or the Channel system.

In TCM, one type of migraine is caused by the disharmony of the liver system. Liver is the organ system that regulates the flow of Qi as well as stores the soul (relate to mental activities). The regular flow of Qi regulates emotional activity, and the disharmony of liver system will cause the deficiency of Yin energy or excess Yang energy. Therefore, it will cause the unbalance of Yin and/or Yang, and the irregular Qi flow and blood stasis will result in the symptoms of migraine headache. It usually is conjunction with the emotional strain and stress.

Another type of migraine was caused by the deficiency of kidney. TCM believes that kidney energy promotes liver energy. The kidney deficiency will cause the liver Yin deficiency and trigger headache. The liver Qi stagnation and kidney deficiency may co-exist in the same patient.


You can treat migraine with Gua Sha therapy and do self-treatment at home.

As migraine was caused by the disharmony or deficiency of organ systems, so the treatment should be focusing in regulating Yin-Yang, which will nourish the deficiency of organs system, and regulate the flow of Qi, and as a result remove the root cause of headache.TCM Gua Sha can offer you the effective way to do this.

Gua Sha, the ancient Chinese therapy appears to be at least two thousand years old, and has been proved to be extremely effective in treating both chronic and acute disorders such as headache, asthma, bronchitis, heatstroke, pain and stiffness.

Gua Sha is based on the same theory as acupuncture. The difference is instead of using needles to stimulate the accurate acupoint; Gua Sha therapy can yield the same result by scraping the proper area on your skin with simple Gua Sha tools.The theory of Gua Sha therapy in treating migraine headache is to stimulate the acupoints which helps to promote and regulate the functions of kidney and liver. Through sessions it will effectively reduce the frequency and severity of attacks, and eventually cure the disease completely.

In general Gua Sha helps stimulating the immune system, detoxifies and de-acidifies, promotes the circulation, regulates functions and organs, removes blockades and pain, revitalizes and regenerates ("life-extension"), diminishes stress, fatigue and burn-out, improves and cures countless chronic and acute disorders and complaints, rebalances emotions, relaxes and promotes clarity of mind...everything through ONE simple treatment.

The technique of Gua Sha is very easy to learn and practice. And it is drug free and no known side effect. It is the most affordable, practical, safe and effective way in treating and controlling your migraine headache.


Migraine headache need to be treated more effective for it can cause some serious complications.
The negative effect of migraine headache offered is not only the pain during attack. For it is the reflection of the problem or your liver and/or kidney, it most likely will cause some other problems such as asthma, frozen shoulder, rheumatoid arthritis, and so on.

Liver Qi stagnation usually caused bad-tempered, and will be more harmful to your health. As TCM believe that the kidney are closely related to the human reproduction, so the deficiency of kidney will usually cause the sexual dysfunction.


One more thing need to mentioned here is migraine preventive drugs, apart from their relative inefficacy, is that unpleasant side effects are common such as insomnia, sedation or sexual dysfunction. This is because the drugs is harmful to the health of kidney.


TCM Gua Sha can offer you the drugs free way to solve the problem of liver and/or kidney. It has no known side effect, and can relief you from the pain soon. So it can be the better choice for the self-treatment of migraine.