Part Ⅱ Clinical Acupuncture Lecture Two Headache

Headache is an subjective symptom charac-terized by pain at the uppel half of the head.Itcan he caused by a large variety of acute andchronic diseases,such as hypertension,mi-graine,nervous headache.febrile diseases,anddiseases of the eye.nose and ear,etc..Headache which is an accompanying symptom inthe development of other disease will not be dis-cussed here,since it will disappear as soon as theprimary disease is cured.According to the theo-ry of traditional Chinese medicine,headache canbe divided into the following five types:wind