migraine

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in some cases spicy herbs can be very effective in migraine

but it depends on the dynamics of blood flow to the head

you could generally divide headaches into two categories: those with

increased blood flow (vasodilation), and those with deficient

(vasoconstriction)

in the case of vasoconstriction, spicy herbs like shunthi, pippali etc

can open up the cerebral arteries and restore blood

sometimes you can tell by applying either heat or cold to the back of

the neck, i.e. heat improves vasoconstrictive headaches, but worsens

vasodilatory ones; vice versa for cold

in ayurvedic terms your headache was probably caused by excess kapha

severe migraines in my experience are usually pitta and or pitta/vata

these often require a different measure, such as working on the liver,

using more powerfully cooling remedies.

Caldecott