Migraine headache is a subjective experience. The commonly described pain is typically throbbing, bursting, hammering, or shattering. The pain might start on one side or a spot on the head and spreading to any other place. Ocular areas often affected. The pain is usually severe, intense and tends to be associated with nausea, giddiness and generalised sense of malaise.
Many patients feel relieved if there is vomiting.
The episodes of pain are periodic, may be weekly, daily , fortnightly, monthly or irregular. A good clinician can help the patient arrive to a correct diagnosis. However, it is a common experience of the practitioners of homoeopathic system of medicine that migraine is curable. This means, homoeopathy believes that migraine is a personality disorder and hence the treatment should be determined only on the basis of in-depth study of the patients' personality. This approach helps treating most cases of migraine successfully.