A ACUPUNTURA COMO TRATAMENTO DE CEFALÉIAS EM QUADROS MENSTRUAIS

Abstract

The word cephalea is synonymous of headache and may have primary or secondary origin, as migraine, that is a kind of symptom little diagnosed, because many people that are affected don´t know how to differentiate it, but there are treatments that lead to control and relief of seizures of migraine menstrual. The acupunture is a millennial practice that seeks to alleviate pains and treat many diseases through needles, despite of being a very-old-technique, for many years it was believed as placebo effect, nowadays it is a line of treatment very used and with aid of technology many researches are done, to discover new functions of acupunture. The objective of this paper was demonstrate the efficiency of acupunture as treatment of patients of menstrual cephalea through literature review. Index Terms - Acupuncture; menstrual period, migraine. traditional chinese medicine.