Open AccessSuccessful treatment of intractable menstrual migraine with the traditional herbal medicine tokishakuyakusan
Author(s) -
Akaishi Tetsuya,
Takayama Shin,
Ohsawa Minoru,
Kikuchi Akiko,
Arita Ryutaro,
Nakashima Ichiro,
Aoki Masashi,
Ishii Tadashi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of general and family medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2189-7948
DOI - 10.1002/jgf2.242
Subject(s) - triptans , medicine , migraine , headaches , menstruation , rizatriptan , refractory (planetary science) , sumatriptan , anesthesia , surgery , receptor , agonist , physics , astrobiology
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.