Ayurvedic way of curing migraine

thanks to ayurveda, Subhash Jacob is free from migraine now. The headache was with him for over 30 years. Repeated attempts at seeking cure from different schools of medicines were ineffective and left him with many side effects. "I am 90 per cent cured after I took the ayurvedic treatment,' says Jacob, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Spin of pain The treatment that Jacob took was developed in 2002 by Balendu Prakash, the director of the vcpc Research Foundation in Dehradun, Uttaranchal. A blend of five herbo-mineral drugs mentioned in the ancient ayurvedic texts, the new treatment, according to Prakash, cures the headache in 120 days. He has trained many traditional practitioners around the country in the system. They later applied the treatment on more than 400 migraine patients in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.The findings of their experiments with migraine were presented at the 13th Congress of the International Headache Society (ihs), Stockholm (see figure: Better feedback).

The study followed guidelines for traditional medicines set by the World Health Organization, which puts migraine as 19th in the list of causes for