When we come back, we will continue, covering many other interesting and effective treatments, including 5-HTP, vitamin B2, Magnesium, vitamin B6, ginger, and more. So stay tuned. Now, we left off our discussion of migraine treatments with the herb, feverfew. We pointed out that feverfew has a long history of use in Europe for this purpose, and, contrary to what you might believe from reading a medical text, there have been clinical studies that show it is effective. And we have many other treatments that continue to be ignored by conventional medicine.
Lets start with an easy one.
Riboflavin, or vitamin B2. There have been two studies published by a group of researchers in Europe. And by the end of the three month test period, the falling incidence of migraines had not yet leveled off, so the improvement might be expected to increase over greater time. At the end of the recent trial the incidence of migraines in the intervention group had fallen by half, whereas the level of migraines in the placebo group exceeded baseline. Improvement was statistically significant in terms of eight of nine indices followed, though effects on severity and length of migraines as well as amount of antimigraine drugs used were only marginally significant in a clinical sense.