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Hi,
I am treating a 47 year old female with chronic migraines for 30 years.
The migraines come 0-3 times a week and can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days.
It is usually either on her right temple or left temple. The pain ranges from a 1 to a 10 in intensity.
Migraines often come from exhaustion, stress, not eating on time, or getting angry. They are worse in the heat.
She is always hot and loves windy and cold weather.
She is skinny and since she is a child she has had a big appetite and eats a lot but does not gain weight.
He tongue if full of horizontal cracks and is red.
her pulses and weak and thin.
I tonified ren mai
for the constitutional lack of yin, weak and thin pulses, and her mother was strict when she was growing up and so she was not very close to her.
ALso her father died when she was 12.
She had a migraine for two and a half days after the treatment.
I am trying to understand if Ren mai was not the right treatment for her or if there is another reason that she started a migraine after the treatment.
Any insights?
Thank-you so much!Hi Adina,
Signs and symptoms suggest that there is an excess Yang scenario: migraines that worsen with heat, being always hot, tendency to big appetite and not gaining weight, red tongue… leading to Yin deficiency (thin pulses, transverse cracks on the tongue). My guess is that long-term Stomach Heat along stress and irregular eating habits might have led to a Yin deficiency scenario affecting the Liver and generating Liver Yang rising (migraines, anger). Heat (which in her case is the root of the problem) should be cleared before nourishing Yin. By nourishing Yin at the Yuan level without clearing Heat at the Ying or Wei level might have caused “pressure” leading to an increase of Heat trapped and that possibly triggered a migraine longer or more intense than usual. Maybe you could use Guasha or bleed Luo points in order to vent the Heat at the Ying level or use Jing-Well points if venting at the Wei level before proceeding to nourish Yin or perform a more grounding treatment.
I hope that helps making sense as to why the migraine post-treatment might have occurred.
Monica
Thank-you so very much! That is VERY helpful. Can you please just tell me – what does it mean to vent heat at the Wei level? Are you referring to doing a sinew treatment for the migraines?
Thank-you so much again for your help.No worries. Venting Heat (if accompanied by Wind) is just finding an exit for it. So just add a Jing-Well point would do.
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