There are more than fifty diseases that can cause headaches and in one kind of headache, pain pulsates and throbs with the heartbeat. This is called a migraine.
Dr. Chen Chaolong, a physician at We Care Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic in Taiwan, said that more than 90 percent of migraines are related to cervical spine misalignment. The good thing is, through self-examination, and head and neck acupoint massage, we can effectively solve migraine problems.
General understanding in the medical world points to migraines as related to the rapid expansion and contraction of blood vessels and may also be related to an imbalance of the nervous system. In addition, bright light or noise, foods high in the amino acid tyrosine, such as cheese, chocolate, and pickles, drinking alcohol or coffee, or hormonal shifts before and after a women’s menstrual period may also cause a migraine….