About migraine

We say that a migraine is a pain that occurs on one side of the head; and Galen defines it as something that covers the brain to the middle of it. Sometimes the cause lies inside the skull, and sometimes in the membrane that envelops the skull from above. When it happens, it is most often felt in the muscles of the temple. When a migraine is felt outside the skull, it sometimes reaches such strength that the patient cannot tolerate touching the head. Juices reach the sore spot either through external veins and arteries, or from the brain itself and its membranes, with most of them rising through the sutures of the skull. Migraines are sometimes caused by vapors escaping from the whole body or from a specific organ on the same side of the body. If a migraine occurs, it most often occurs periodically. In most cases it occurs only from juices; There is no such thing as a significant migraine from a disorder of simple nature.

Migraine from juices can occur from hot juices, from cold juices, from winds and from vapors; You already know the signs of this. With a cold nature, you observe a quick calming of pain from warming and spasms, and with a hot nature, you experience a hot head to the touch, a beating in the temples and calming from cooling agents. In addition, with a cold nature, the patient feels cold, and with a hot nature, heat. All this occurs with increasing pain.

Treatment. Migraine is treated with bloodletting, according to what you learned in the paragraph about the helmet, and especially with bloodletting from the frontal and temporal veins, laxation, enemas and diversion of juices are also used; all this is done as needed, according to what is defined in the basic rules of treatment. Among the remedies useful for hot migraines is the infusion of sabur in chicory juice, mentioned in the Pharmacopoeia; At one time they give you to drink from one to six ukiy. Bloodletting from the veins of the forehead, as well as from the vessels of the nose, is very useful.

If migraine occurs periodically, then you should cleanse the entire body before the attack and change the nature after cleansing. When the matter is hot, then apply a numbing remedy made from opium, luffah bark, dill, henbane and camphor to your temples and cool the sore spot with the substances known to you, mentioned in the basic rules. Such patients are also helped by writing ink, which is used to smear the side of the head where the migraine is. Saffron is one of the ointments that is used to smear the forehead of migraine sufferers. They are also helped by a medicinal dressing prepared from rue and mint with ink and rose oil, or an ointment from Paul's lozenges, which are mentioned in the Pharmacopoeia, or the use of a medicinal dressing from laurel drupes and rue leaves - one part of both, mustard - half a part, All this is mixed with water and consumed. A wax ointment made from arsenic and Spanish flies, which causes blisters to form on the sore spot, or tapsia ointment is more powerful; it ulcerates and brings the same benefit as cauterization.

If the cold material is very cold, then apply a medicinal bandage of furbiyun, mustard, saliva and similar substances. As for chronic migraine, the duration of which is significant, it is cold in all cases and requires absorbent and strongly warming medications. In the Pharmacopoeia we mention general and specific ointments and ointments for migraine, and they should be used. If you use ointments after emptying and cleansing your body, then start by rubbing the muscles of the temple on the painful side with your fingers and a rough handkerchief before the attack begins, and then lubricate. When it is necessary to induce numbness and the throbbing pain intensifies, it is sometimes useful to lubricate the artery of the temple near the sore spot with opium, anzarut and astringents, or tie a piece of lead or wood attached to the temple to prevent strong beating, causing throbbing pain, as we said above in the basic rules regarding cauterization.

Some ancient doctors mention a proven, useful method of treating chronic migraines, borrowed from a certain woman. Namely: boil the roots of mad cucumber and bitter wormwood in water and olive oil until they are boiled, then pour hot water and olive oil over the sore side, and make a medicinal bandage from the sediment. Whenever the said woman used this medicine, she was cured of migraine, whether migraine with fever or without fever. There is no better medicinal dressing than mustard. If the disease drags on, then apply a medicinal bandage of tapsia, caper root bark, sea onion and furbillune, ground, sifted and mixed with fragrant wine. Truly, this is a treatment that brings great benefits. For such patients, it is useful to start by visiting the bathhouse and standing several times, bending over hot water. Then pistachio oil is injected into their nose, for it immediately causes the pain to descend to the shoulder blades.