Successful treatment of intractable menstrual migraine with the traditional herbal medicine tokishakuyakusan.
herbal medicine
intractable headache
menstrual migraine
tokishakuyakusan
triptan
Journal
Journal of general and family medicine
ISSN: 2189-7948
Titre abrégé: J Gen Fam Med
Pays: Japan
ID NLM: 101689875
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
May 2019
May 2019
Historique:
received:
02
12
2018
revised:
04
02
2019
accepted:
27
02
2019
entrez:
9
5
2019
pubmed:
9
5
2019
medline:
9
5
2019
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
In this report, we present the successful treatment of five consecutive cases of premenopausal women suffering from severe menstrual migraine with tokishakuyakusan (TSS). Two patients were complicated by tension-type headache (TTH), and another patient was by medication overuse headache (MOH). The effects of triptans were limited in all of them. After starting TSS, they showed dramatic improvement in the severity and frequency of their attacks. The patients with TTH and MOH also showed dramatic improvement in their symptoms. TSS could be a promising alternative choice for patients with intractable menstruation-related headaches that are refractory to conventional treatments, including triptans.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31065478
doi: 10.1002/jgf2.242
pii: JGF2242
pmc: PMC6498115
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Pagination
118-121Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
ST, MO, AK, and TI belong to the department of kampo medicine in Tohoku University Hospital, which receives grant from Tsumura and Co., Tokyo, Japan.
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