Homeopathic treatment and migraine: a review

Leila Shekarchi Asadollahi¹ Alireza Fazeli Mehrabadi²

1) Corresponding author, PhD student of general psychology, Islamic Azad University, Qom branch, Qom, Iran
2) Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Qom branch, Qom, Iran

IOI Code : XKAK-KHAKA
Publication : 4th National Conference on Psychopathology(asruma4.ir)
Abstract :
    Migraine headache is one of the types of chronic headaches described in the International Classification of Headache Disorders, 3rd Edition that these types of headaches are complex brain events that manifest over a few hours to a few days in a recurring theme and with disability in the fields of it is different in everyday life. One of the common treatments for these types of headaches is homeopathy or homotherapy, a pseudoscientific method invented by Samuel Hahnemann. According to its proponents, homeopathy is a method of treatment based on the idea that like cures like. is that by stimulating the patient s immune system with homeopathic medicines, it leads the person to recovery. In this review, the titles and abstracts of articles published in Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus and ScienceDirect databases were searched by searching the keywords homeopathy and migraine between 2022 and 2023 (until December 12). In the electronic search, sources in this field were retrieved. The summaries of the published articles were reviewed and duplicate and unrelated items were removed from the study in several stages and finally the final articles were selected for comprehensive review and data extraction. The results showed that homeopathic treatment is effective in treating and relieving migraine and homeopathic doctors can use this treatment method to relieve migraine.

Keywords : homeopathic migraine headache chronic review