Migraine treatment

The different types of migraine

   Migraine: pain in any part of the head (or in the whole head, and when it attaches to one of the two halves, it is called: semi-facial migraine, and if it attaches to the head entirely it is called the helmet (Baïdah or Khoudthah), comparing it to the warrior’s helmet which encompasses the entire head. The migraine could be in the posterior part or in the anterior part of the head. It has many types , its causes are diverse.

The Truth About Migraine

The heat and ardor of the head coming from the gaseous exhalation which revolves there and seeks an exit from the head without arriving there, from where it bores it like the container whose contents are heated.
If this gaseous exhalation spreads  throughout the head without being able to discharge or be decomposed ,  it is called (Sadar).

Migraine comes from many causes

• Gastric ulcers, hence the headache due to this tumor which attaches to the nerve descending from the head to the stomach.
• Coarse wind contained in the stomach, and rising towards the head, annoying it.
• From a tumor in the veins of the stomach, hence the headache, after the stomach ache, because they are both connected.
• Migraine produces from the stomach stuffed with food going down, but some of it remains raw, causing the migraine and heaviness in the head.
• Migraine produced after coitus, because free air penetrates the body in excess of usual.
• Migraine after vomiting or relaxation: either because of the prevailing dryness, or the rise of vapors from the stomach towards the head.
• The migraine that comes after intense heat and warmed air.
• The migraine that comes after the great cold and because of the thickness of the vapors in the head without being decomposed.
• Migraine produced after waking up and insomnia.
• Migraine produces pressure on the head and carrying heavy burdens on it.
• The migraine produced when we talk at length where the strength of the brain diminishes.
• Migraine produced by excessive movement and exercise.
• Migraine caused by psychological accidents, such as worries, sorrows, scruples and bad ideas.
• The migraine caused by great hunger, from which the vapors find nothing to work on, they agglomerate and rise towards the head in order to make it feel ill.
• Migraine which originates from a tumor in the inner skin of the brain, where the person feels that he is being hit with hammers on the head.
• Migraine, during fever ,  because the heat increases, and causes pain.

And Allah  (azwadial)  is the most knowledgeable.

Cause of semifacial migraine

The cause of semi-facial migraine is material contained in the veins of the head only ,  or which rises there, and the weaker half of the head accommodates it, the said material could be vaporous, or hot humors or cold. The characteristic sign is the beating of the veins, especially if the temperament is sanguine, and if the veins are bandaged, the strong beating stops and the pain subsides.

Abu Na’aim ( Radhiallahu anhu ) mentioned in his work: Prophetic medicine, that this kind attacked the Prophet  (sallAllahu alayhi wa salam)  and he stayed one or two days at his house, without going out. In the same work, we find according to Ibn ‘Abbas ( Radhiallahu anhu ) who says: “We visited the Messenger of Allah  (sallAllahu alayhi wa salam)  who had bandaged his head!”.

In the Sahih we read:  

“That he said on his deathbed: O my head! and he bandaged his head during his illness!”

The head bandage is useful, in case of pain due to semi-easy migraine, or other head pain.

Treatment of semi-facial migraine

Its treatment depends on its type and its cause:

1. By means of vomiting or relaxation.
2. By means of taking food.
3. By means of tranquility and rest.
4. By means of dressings.
5. By means of freshness.
6. By means of reheating,
7. By means of avoiding listening to voices and movements.

This being known: the treatment of migraine with henna is a partial treatment and not total, that is to say it is a treatment of only one kind of migraine, where the migraine is caused by the burning heat, and not by an element that we must reject, since henna, in this case has an apparent usefulness, if we grind it, and mix it with vinegar, in order to bandage the head with the mixture, the pain of the migraine s will soothe. In henna there is an element suitable for the nerve. When used with a bandage, it soothes pain. This quality does not concern the pain of the head alone, but it extends to all the organs, there is also in henna a strong retention of the organs. By using it in the bandage or dressing of the hot, inflamed tumor, the pain will subside.

Al Bukhari in his History, recounted, like Abu Dawoud in his Sunan:

“No one complaining to the Messenger of Allah  (sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam)  about the pain in his head had a response other than: Apply suction cups, and no one complaining to him about the pain in his feet without saying to him: be dyed of henna”.

In the work of At-Tirmizi ( Radhiallahu anhu ): according to Salma oumm Rafe’a, the servant of the Prophet  (sallAllahu alayhi wa salam)  who says:

“The Prophet  (sallAllahu alayhi wa salam)  is never affected by a wound or a thorn without putting henna on the affected place”.

[The two hadiths are attributed to Salma Oumm Rafé’a, and we have the same meaning, that is to say the treatment of all pain that the feet suffer is by henna, transmitted by Abu Dawoud, At-Tirmizi, Ibn Majah, Ahmad Al-Hakem, and Al-Bukhari in History with references, all weak. The benefits of henna are not confirmed ]