The comparison of headache in modern and traditional Iranian medicine
Abstract
Headache is one of the most common pains in during life all of the human, which even children sometimes suffer from it. In modern medicine, headaches are broadly classified into two primary and secondary. Primary headaches usually are headaches in which the illness or other factor has not caused headache, and include cluster headaches - migraines and tension-type headaches and chronic daily headaches. Secondary headaches have many causes and pathologies (disease or pathology) that affected by disease or problems in other parts of the body, or intracranial disease, such as meningitis, which has been shown as a headache. Fortunately, about 98% of the headaches are benign and improvable and 1to 2 percent of the headaches occur due to brain tumors or brain damage. According to the World Health Organization, 64% to 77% of the world’s population experienced headaches at least once in their life, and 50% of the people once a year had headaches. In traditional Iranian medicine, as many as sixty types of headaches in various temperaments: Bilious, Sanguine, phlegmatic and melancholic, by Iranian great scientists such as Avicenna and Hakim Momen, have been investigated and various strategies for prevention and treatment many of them have been recommended. In this research, several studies to search in the authoritative traditional medicine resources and PubMed databases investigated and various mechanisms for the treatment of headache in Iranian traditional medicine have been interpreted.
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