Type 4: Cluster Type (Stagnancy of the Liver-Qi and Exterior Wind)

Main points of diagnosis

1.      Without forebodings the migraine attacks, having no periodic pattern. It goes severe in no time.

2.      The pain circles around eyes with distending pain. Some describe as eyes being dug out. Other symptoms are aversion to light, tear gland secretion, nausea and vomiting.

3.      The attack duration is usually longer, some as long as a month. Yet the subsiding period leaves no trails.

Treatments

Mild suffers can benefit from some antipyretic-analgesic drugs, but it has rather no effect on severe patients.

Clinical manifestations/Indications: Migraine attack much without any forebodings, the pain centers on eyes, aversion to light, weeping (excitement of tear gland), nausea and vomiting.

Therapeutic Principle: Soothing the liver to disperse the depressed qi, dispelling wind and relieving pain.

Recipe: Addictive to (Decoction of Cleansing Liver by Mediation)*

Main Ingredients: Herba Schizonepetae, Radix Ledebouriellae, Rhizoma Cyperi, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong.