Severe Headache
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Many headaches are understood in Chinese medicine. What about severe headache? In most Western countries, there is a process for dealing with head pain emergency.
If you fall into one of the symptom pictures described below, see a doctor for help. They can keep you alive with modern science.
Then see your acupuncture practitioner!
Severe Headache?
See a Doctor!
FAST!
Some danger signs ie where you should visit your Doctor first:
- A new headache which is there when you wake up, gradually worsens through the day, and is worse for putting your head down low, or stooping, or straining at anything. This might be a sign of pressure from something inside the bones of the head (the cranium), and it should be checked urgently. This severe headache needs quick diagnosis.
- Where you sometimes get sudden headaches that feel as if your head will explode, or feeling as if you have been hit on the head. Again, this headache needs diagnosis.
- A new headache in the temples (either or both), different from headaches you have had before: may be worse at night, and worsening over several days, with pain that burns or jabs, can sometimes also be felt on the face or scalp: much worse for brushing or combing the hair, or resting the head on a pillow, especially if it starts with or develops loss of vision. This may be temporal arteritis. Go to your doctor quickly for a diagnosis. (But we may be able to help too, later!)
- If you are no longer young, and start getting a headache that your friends say is migraine.
- If you are over six month's pregnant and start getting headaches, especially if they come with visual disturbances (stars or zigzags or funny lights or flickering): this might be eclampsia. Get a doctor's diagnosis.
- Headache or symptoms such as loss of concentration or memory, or vertigo, following an accident, eg concussion, even if some days later.
- Meningitis has the following symptoms: dizzy cramping nausea headache, high fever and stiff neck developing over several hours, or over 1 to 2 days. Other symptoms may include nausea, vomiting, discomfort looking into bright lights, confusion, and sleepiness.
- NB In newborns and small infants, the classic meningitis symptoms of fever, headache, and neck stiffness may be absent or difficult to detect, and the infant may only appear slow or inactive, or be irritable, have vomiting, or be feeding poorly. As the disease progresses, patients of any age may have seizures. This headache needs early medical attention.
Frequent Headaches - What to do?
If you get frequent headaches of any kind, what can YOU do about it?
Beyond reading the book shown, consider this. Chinese medicine has 3000 years of experience and success.
It has a huge amount to offer in understanding and treatment of the syndromes behind both headache and severe headache.
To find out more about this, click migraine and headache.
In the meantime, what can YOU do?
Put yourself in control. Here is a book that is easy to read, helps you identify the triggers and shows how to reduce pain frequency and intensity. It has helped many sufferers and is well reviewed: click on Heal Your Headache, below.
Heal Your Headache
Help for Severe Headache from Chinese Medicine:
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Jonathan Clogstoun-Willmott Books
All the books in the 'Chinese Medicine in English' series should be fully accessible on Kindles and Kindle apps. (Or you can buy the softback print editions, of course.)
('Western Astrology and Chinese Medicine' published 1986, was never available in a Kindle version.)
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Qi Stagnation - Signs of Stress
Yin Deficiency - Burnout and Exhaustion
Yang Deficiency - Get Your Fire Burning Again!
Yuck! Phlegm! How to Clear Your Phlegm ...
Western Astrology and Chinese Medicine
Published 1986 and, amazingly, still selling. Was apparently used back then by at least one acupuncture college to help students understand Chinese medicine!
Four Reviews so far. (Despite the lurid cover, it explains the five main types of phlegm and what works best for each type. I hope it's easy to read and will be much more useful than all the websites on the subject.)
Jonathan Clogstoun-Willmott Books
All the books in the 'Chinese Medicine in English' series should be fully accessible on Kindles and Kindle apps. (Or you can buy the softback print editions, of course.)
('Western Astrology and Chinese Medicine' published 1986, was never available in a Kindle version.)
Request! Please!
If, having read one of my books you can write a review - preferably positive - that would help others decide whether to read it.
You can put your review on Amazon or, on this site, here.
And if you think it was terrible?
Well, let me know so I can improve it for the next person. (Ideally let me know before cursing it in public!)
Here are some of the books I (Jonathan) have written.
Subscribers to Kindle Unlimited can borrow the first four for 'free'.
Qi Stagnation - Signs of Stress
Yin Deficiency - Burnout and Exhaustion
Yang Deficiency - Get Your Fire Burning Again!
Yuck! Phlegm! How to Clear Your Phlegm ...
Western Astrology and Chinese Medicine
Published 1986 and, amazingly, still selling. Was apparently used back then by at least one acupuncture college to help students understand Chinese medicine!
Four Reviews so far. (Despite the lurid cover, it explains the five main types of phlegm and what works best for each type. I hope it's easy to read and will be much more useful than all the websites on the subject.)
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