Wind-cold headache

In traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that if a person catches a cold due to the cold wind, it is usually caused by the wind-cold. If wind-cold washes over the human body, it will cause many symptoms, one of which is called wind-cold headache. This symptom is different from ordinary headaches. Most of them are migraines, and they mainly affect the temples and forehead. So what are the symptoms of wind-cold headache in the human body?

This type of patient often has a clear history of experiencing cold. Wind-cold headache often occurs after being exposed to wind and cold, and generally includes migraine, cluster headache, tension headache, and head neuralgia caused by wind and cold.

Symptoms and signs

The onset of this syndrome is usually acute, with headache as the main symptom. It is characterized by headache in the forehead and temples, often involving the neck and accompanied by a feeling of tightness. It may be aggravated by wind and cold. Because the wind and cold bind the surface, the pores are blocked, and the Wei Yang is suppressed, it may manifest as headache without sweating, aversion to wind and cold, no thirst in the absence of fever, thin white tongue coating, and a floating and tight pulse. Headaches caused by exogenous wind and cold usually have no prodromal symptom period and go directly into the headache attack period.

Medication

Prescription for treating headache caused by wind and cold

Recipe 1 [Ingredients] 5 scallions with roots, 49 light black beans. [Usage] Decoction in water and drink while hot. 【Main Indications】Headache caused by wind-cold. Symptoms include intermittent headache, pain in the neck and back, aversion to wind and cold, especially when exposed to wind, no thirst, thin white tongue coating, and floating pulse.

Recipe 2 [Ingredients] Crush walnuts with shells, 7 walnuts with roots and onions, 12 grams of ginger, and 9 grams of tea leaves. [Usage] Decoction in water and drink warm. 【Main Indications】Headache caused by wind-cold.

Recipe 3 [Ingredients] 1 piece of ginger. [Usage] Heat over fire, cut into 4 slices, apply on forehead and temples, and fix with tape. 【Main Indications】Headache caused by wind-cold.

Diet and health care

Eat a healthy diet according to your doctor's advice.

Preventive Care

There is currently no effective prevention measure for this disease, and early detection and diagnosis are the key to its prevention and treatment.

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Disease diagnosis

Headache is caused by the pain fibers in the head being stimulated by pain-causing factors to produce action potentials, which are transmitted to the cerebral cortex through the pain conduction pathway for analysis and produce pain. Clinical classifications include migraine, cluster headache, tension headache, hypertensive headache, inflammatory headache, traction headache, neurotic headache, as well as headache caused by head neuralgia and head organ lesions. Modern Chinese medicine has conducted extensive and in-depth research on migraine, and usually divides migraine into two major categories according to its cause: "exogenous headache" and "internal injury headache". "Exogenous headache" can be divided into smaller types such as "wind-cold headache", "wind-heat headache", "rheumatic headache" and "summer-heat headache", each of which has different treatment methods.

Inspection method

The examination items should be determined based on the patient's actual situation.

complication

This disease usually has no complications.