I suffer monthly migraines and have just started to do acupuncture. Has anyone else tried this and does it work? Thanks 
Pain management is among the most-studied applications for acupuncture. There are lots of peer-reviewed papers that extol the virtues of acupuncture for pain management, and for migraines specifically…
Science is good!
When it comes to treating real patients, consistent clinical success is even better… (at least it is in my opinion.)
In my experience, migraines can be treated VERY effectively with acupuncture – - it offers immediate relief from the symptoms (works like a charm!)
Better still, a well executed protocol can treat the underlying imbalance to prevent future migraines, too. (Not a single treatment, of course.)
Consider also asking your TCM doc/acupuncturist to teach you how to locate some pressure points so you can stimulate the points at home to prevent migraines if you feel one coming on.
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Go here, plug in migraine and accupuncture, and you will have all the peer reviewed literature on the subject. There were 239 results, but because its an internal search engine, I couldn’t post the link to those results
Good Luck
National Center for Biotechnological Information
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National Library of Medicine of the National Institute of Health
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"PubMed"
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I once knew a doctor whose mother had terrible migraines. He couldn’t cure her, and in desperation she went to have acupuncture. He scoffed. There were three treatments. After the first, little happened. After the second, the pains were worse ( but she had been warned this might happen) After the third she was cured and never had another. Her son told me he hated having to admit it, but acupuncture had cured his mother where he himself had failed.
What’s more, he was a pain specialist
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Pain management is among the most-studied applications for acupuncture. There are lots of peer-reviewed papers that extol the virtues of acupuncture for pain management, and for migraines specifically…
Science is good!
When it comes to treating real patients, consistent clinical success is even better… (at least it is in my opinion.)
In my experience, migraines can be treated VERY effectively with acupuncture – - it offers immediate relief from the symptoms (works like a charm!)
Better still, a well executed protocol can treat the underlying imbalance to prevent future migraines, too. (Not a single treatment, of course.)
Consider also asking your TCM doc/acupuncturist to teach you how to locate some pressure points so you can stimulate the points at home to prevent migraines if you feel one coming on.
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Naturopathic Doctor
(TCM/acupuncture are a big part of my practice.)
Why don’t you try acupressure yourself?
Try this, my wife and I have used it for over 20 years.
There are two acupressure points one on each side of the face near the mandibles (the hinge where the jaw bones connect).
If you place your two forefingers on the two molars and open and close your mouth you will feel the hinge.
The points will be very tender massage these points until the tenderness goes away and migraine should go.
If it does not go then you have not got the correct points
the points could be a little lower at the bass of the molars? remember the tenderness.
When you know you are getting a migraine the earlier you try this the quicker it will go good luck.
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