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Migraine
Category: Illness or disabilities
Type
Involuntary
Introduction and description
Migraine is a neurological condition suffered by women more than men, 75 percent of adult patients are women, although migraine affects approximately equal numbers of prepubescent boys and girls. The word migraine was borrowed from Old French migraigne which itself was based on the Greek for "half" and "skull", so named because typical migraine headaches only affect one half of the head. The attack can last for anything between 4 and 72 hours.
A migraine attack is most characterised by a truly severe and debilitating headache and nausea, but it is also accompanied by unusual visionary and olfactory perceptions and increased sensitivity to sound and light - hallucinations.
Symptoms
Before the person gets the attack they may become moody and irritable, depressed or euphoric [mimicking the symtoms of the manic depressive], overwhelmingly tired, and suddenly acquire a craving for certain food, stiff muscles (especially in the neck), constipation or diarrhea, increased urination, and other visceral symptoms. These symptoms usually precede the headache phase of the migraine attack by several hours or days.
Then comes the attack itself and it is usually preceded by visual disturbances, which can last for anything from 5 to 60 minutes, occasionally more.
The visual disturbances may include flashes of white and/or black and rarely of multicolored lights or formations of dazzling zigzag lines (scintillating scotoma; often arranged like the battlements of a castle, hence the alternative terms "fortification spectra" or "teichopsia); blurred or shimmering or cloudy vision, as though looking through thick or smoked glass; tunnel vision and hemianopsia.
And of course of more importance from our point of view is that the other symptoms include visual, auditory and olfactory hallucinations.
I could of course end the explanation here, but it is not quite as straightforward as it sounds, because we still do not know what causes the headaches and why spiritual experience isn’t there all the time. The answer apears to be what medical people call ‘ischemic’ - related to blood pressure. Heightened blood pressure caused by a blockage somewhere appears to cause the headache, it can also cause further brain damage. In effect there is a sort of vicious spiral of effects, as the damage causes heightened blood pressure and the heightened blood pressure causes more damage.
Causes
So we have established that there is damage to the blood supply to the brain. What caused the damage?
Surgery
The blockage can be caused by surgery [for example both plastic surgery and surgery on the brain to remove tumours or clots]. Any other sorts of traumatic injury to the brain may also leave lasting damage.
Heart and blood circulatory problems
It may be a by product of endothelial dysfunction, or the beginnings of what may result in a stroke, or be the by-product of a stroke. The blood usually enters the brain alright, but is blocked from leaving - hence the pressure and the pain.
In some cases, the blood pressure rises and causes the reticular formation to be compressed, ultimately causing damage to the organ. The reticular formation has a special role in producing spiritual experiences, as such any pressure or damage here from blood going in or out - is going to have an effect - see the brain and its functions
As the cause may be endothelial dysfunction, all the causes of this - toxins, bacteria, mineral deficiency, vitamin deficiency, pharmaceuticals and so on may also ultimately have played a part in creating the blockage. So we now need to look at these:
Toxins
Pollutants, pesticides, household products, petrochemical products, heavy metal poisoning can also cause damage to the brain directly as well as endothelial dysfunction. These include lead poisoning.
There is also a clear link between migraine and mercury poisoning. And lest we forget, one of the sources of mercury is dental amalgam fillings.
Viral infection
A number of viruses are implicated in the onset of brain damage in general, as such there is the possibility that a virus is the ultimate cause of the migraine. See for example:
J Neurol. 2011 Apr;258(4):689-90. doi: 10.1007/s00415-010-5790-2. Epub 2010 Oct 19. Herpes simplex virus type 2 and symptomatic migraine. Freilinger TM, Lieb M, Schankin C, Noachtar S. PMID: 20957382
Vaccines
There are a number of ways that vaccines can cause migraines. Some contain mercury in the form of Thimerosal, but they can also cause problems as a consequence of the agent, if it is a live virus, and the excipient. I urge you to read the section on vaccines to get the complete picture, as they can also cause food allergies, allergies in general and nervous system diseases. I have an observation linking vaccines with schizophrenia.
Food allergy
Food allergy seems to have a special place in causing headaches and in severe cases migraines.
In this case the food is acting as a poison or toxin. But there is also a case to be made for Allergies as another problem.
By identifying the allergy, we have not however got to the root cause of the problem, as such if an allergy is found, the reason for the allergy must also be identified. In the following study a link was found, but because the root cause of the allergy was not determined the 'cure' was not effective in the long term.
Use of the ELISA test with subsequent diet elimination advice did not reduce the disability or impact on daily life of migraine like headaches or the number of migraine like headaches at 12 weeks but it did significantly reduce the number of migraine like headaches at 4 weeks. PMID: 21835022
Trace the cause.
Pharmaceuticals
People have such faith in pharmaceuticals. They also appear to have faith in doctors even though doctors rarely heal anyone. Doctors hand out pharmaceuticals which match a prescribed set of symptoms, they are not healers. Healers investigate the cause of an illness back to its roots. Once healed, you never go back to a healer, because you are healed. Your doctor gives you repeat prescriptions - you are not healed, your symptoms are masked.
Now an analogy.
Imagine you have in front of you a distressed crying child. The crying is annoying you because it is loud and insistent. You call in a doctor. He is a Symptom based doctor. He looks at the way the child is crying and the loudness of the cry and says, 'ah yes' you have a case of Peristent Annoying Individual Nodular Chronic Endless Crying [PAIN-CEC] on your hands. He looks in his medical text book and finds the right page for PAIN-CEC which says "hit the child hard across the side of the face. If this doesn't work first time double the dose. Keep on doubling the dose until it stops."
This approach is tried and lo and behold it works for a short time, the child sits there stunned and all is silent. It starts to cry again, the dose is doubled. It goes very quiet. And it learns that each time it cries it will be hit and so it doesn't cry. But as you have not investigated the cause of its crying you will have never found out that the nappy pin [sorry I am old fashioned] you carelessly fixed that morning is sticking into him and causing him great pain. The wound goes septic and the baby dies.
And the Symptom based doctor says 'Well it was lucky we found a way of medicating him with the Hithard medication - he has lived an extra 4 months even though he was clearly dying".
The eHealthme site has now compiled a list of pharmaceuticals that cause migraine - cause migraine note, not help with it or cure it, cause it. They unfortunately separate out various migraine symptoms, but I will do my best to list them all and give you the link to the list of pharmaceuticals implicated:
- Migraine - general heading
- Migraine aggravated
- Migraine classic
- Migraine hemiplegic
- Migraine with aura
- Migraine without aura
- Migrainous neuralgia
Enough said.
Bacterial infection
Various bacteria are implicated in migraine, not only the endogenous bacteria described above, but also external bacteria, for example:
Pain Physician. 2013 Jul-Aug;16(4):E450. The role of interleukin 10 in the associations between migraine and Helicobacter pylori infection. Kang JW, Shin YI. and The effect of Helicobacter pylori eradication on migraine: a randomized, double blind, controlled trial. [Pain Physician. 2012] PMID: 23877472
Parasites
Parasites cause a great number of different sorts of brain damage and a large number of different types are implicated. More details can be found by following the link to the parasite section.
Nutritional deprivation
Vitamin deficiency, mineral deficiency and the lack of or imbalance in the requisite supply of amino acids and essential fatty acids has also caused migraine. Within this broad grouping we also see cases of the mis-use of foodstuffs, additives and overdosing on vitamin and or mineral supplements.
Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral and the second most abundant intracellular divalent cation and has been recognized as a cofactor for >300 metabolic reactions in the body. ... Magnesium plays a critical role in nerve transmission, cardiac excitability, neuromuscular conduction, muscular contraction, vasomotor tone, blood pressure, and glucose and insulin metabolism. Because of magnesium's many functions within the body, it plays a major role in disease prevention and overall health. Low levels of magnesium have been associated with a number of chronic diseases including migraine headaches, Alzheimer's disease, cerebrovascular accident (stroke), hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. PMID: 23674807
Incidentally there are many more papers like this for the other minerals and vitamins.
Radiation
Radiation of various sorts can damage the brain.
MR. 2014 Apr;35(2):97-117. doi: 10.1053/j.sult.2013.09.005. Toxic leukoencephalopathies, including drug medication, environmental, and radiation-induced encephalopathic syndromes. Rimkus Cde M1, Andrade CS1, Leite Cda C1, McKinney AM2, Lucato LT3.
Toxic leukoencephalopathies can be secondary to the exposure to a wide variety of exogenous agents, including cranial irradiation, chemotherapy, antiepileptic agents, drugs, and environmental toxins. There is no typical clinical picture, and patients can present with a wide array of signs and symptoms PMID: 24745887
Special note headaches
Too many people are apt to classify severe headaches as being migraines. The symptoms are very different and have a different cause. Headaches, however severe, are rarely caused by a blockage, though if they persist investigation is needed in case they are, especially since the blockage may be a tumour.
Treatment
Symptom based medicine - The doctor will tell you which type of migraine you have, which let's face it, is little comfort and will then prescribe a pharmaceutical. Migraine treatments have a very special place in this site as they are stunningly sucessful at producing hallucinations, visions and out of body experiences. They do not heal you.
Cause based medicine - This is one illness where the need to find the cause is exceptionally important, as the illness will only get worse and lead to other brain damage unless treated. Start by getting tests to find out what toxious substances you have in your system. See Healing yourself.
How it works
Why do people get spiritual experiences from migraine - hallucinations, visions and so on?
Physically the two main causes are brain damage and endothelial dysfunction
Functionally, the main mechanism by which spiritual experience works is via the extreme pain produced by the blockage. There may also be a contribution from the damage done to the brain affecting the functions of reasoning and memory by knocking them out.
References and further reading
Podoll K, Robinson D. Migraine Art - The Migraine Experience from Within. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California 2009
Related observations
Healing observations
- 'Alternative' medicine and treatment for children in Italy 012149
- Acupuncture and migraine 006191
- Bunny Vreeland cured of allergies by hypnotherapy 012306
- Chili peppers, migraine and pain 005752
- Coffee, Migraine and headaches 005618
- Cure for Migraine MDMA (Ecstasy) by Respondent 70 020285
- Dr Duke's list of activity for Vitamin B2 017764
- Dr Duke's list of activity for Vitamin C 017762
- Dr Duke's list of biological activities for Vitamin C 017880
- Dr Duke's list of chemicals and activity for the Shallot 017969
- Dr Duke's list of Chemicals and their Biological Activities in: Prunella vulgaris L. (Lamiaceae) -- Heal-All, Self-Heal 018270
- Dr Duke’s list of the top 40 plants with Antimigraine activity 021412
- Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride - The Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) Diet 027895
- Dr Ralph Spintge – Music therapy for pain, insomnia, stress and hypertension 022271
- EFT, Stress and headaches 006209
- Energy Metabolism Impairment in Migraine 027374
- Farrelly, Frances - 'Kay' feels others illness 004159
- Farrelly, Frances - Diagnosing diabetes and blood clot 004212
- Farrelly, Frances - Diagnosing TB in the ear 004213
- Farrelly, Frances - Pain in the bum 004217
- Farrelly, Frances - Remote diagnosis using blood 004214
- Feverfew - The Healing power of herbs – Ceres Esplan 019998
- Gerson, Dr Max - Healing history 011332
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Migraine – And recognising the underlying cause 027383
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Migraine, Hypertension and Headaches 027292
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Raynaud's disease with Autogenic training, Biofeedback and Visualisation 027294
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing the Migraine of Lillian Petroni 027291
- Hildegard of Bingen - 1141, Bingen, Germany - And it came to pass…. that the heavens were opened 028971
- Histidine, histamine and migraine 019133
- Kava, disability and depression 010343
- Migraine Away Rivea corymbosa, H.B. Woodrose & Migraines by Remember 018382
- Mindfulness and headache: A 'new' old treatment, with new findings 023458
- Patterns of mind-body therapies in adults with common neurological conditions 026174
- Polizzi, Nick - Curing migraine 020237
- PubMed - Steiner Eurythmy - And chronic disease 013778
- PubMed - Steiner Eurythmy - And migraine 013771
- Riboflavin Deficiency as a cause of disease 027370
- Simon Lewis - And his near death experience 014693
- Stopped Cluster Headaches But ... Ibogaine by Exekiel 017435
- Tanacetum parthenium and Salix alba (Mig-RL) combination in migraine prophylaxis: a prospective, open-label study 020523
- The Healing Power of Sleep 026790
- TMS and TDCS and migraine 006488
- William Turner on the Holy Thistle 017217
Hallucination
- A migraine variant with abdominal colic and Alice in Wonderland syndrome: a case report and review 026178
- Amitril 017993
- An invisible force seemed to taunt me and pull me around the room 014433
- Artificial food colourings and psychotic reactions 005658
- Bingen, Hildegard of - And their sound was like the voice of a multitude 005817
- Brain damage, blood pressure and hallucinations 005749
- Cafergot 023547
- Chronic analgesic induced headaches 012215
- Clinical holistic medicine: the patient with multiple diseases 017906
- David Lewis-Williams on migraine 000149
- Dihydroergotamine mesylate 018866
- Fairy lights patterns and circles 014434
- Fioricet - Hallucination figures from eHealthme 012205
- Fiorinal - eHealthme figures for hallucinations 012206
- Hallucinations, migraine and atherosclerosis 006351
- Hustvedt, Siri - Sees a small pink man and his pink ox 001620
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 11 Chapter Two 015117
- Kant, Immanuel - Quotes - Demons 015120
- Methergine 019520
- Migraine and hallucinations [PubMed paper] 005747
- Migraine and mild hallucinations 012135
- Migraine causing hallucinations 000155
- Migraine, hallucinations and brainstem damage 005748
- Migraine, headache and pain killers 005751
- Migraines and Behcet's disease 005750
- Migraines and ergotism 006802
- Olfactory hallucinations in primary headache disorders 014725
- Parasitosis of the Central Nervous system 012791
- Pathology of CNS parasitic infections 012792
- Pubmed paper on hallucinations of epilepsy 002074
- Pubmed paper on hallucinations of epilepsy 002076
- Sacks, Oliver - The hallucinations of migraine 001618
- Saw criss crossed flowers growing up the wardrobe 014320
- Sleeping pills cause hallucinations 002360
- Stopped Cluster Headaches But ... Ibogaine by Exekiel 017435
- Ten year old boy hallucinations 000150
- The Netherlands Centre for Monitoring of Adverse Reactions to Drugs 1992 016811
- Topiramate and 'Alice in Wonderland syndrome' 012339
- Toprol 015755
- Zomig-zmt 020471
Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss
- Angell, Dr Marcia - The Illusions of psychiatry 012262
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - The celebration of diversity 011750
- Fludd, Robert - De Elementorum forma 011169
- Fludd, Robert - Fiat 011168
- Fludd, Robert - Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris - 2 002291
- Fludd, Robert - Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris - 3 011167
- Hildegard of Bingen - 1141, Bingen, Germany - And it came to pass…. that the heavens were opened 028971
- Hildegard von Bingen - Canticles Of Ecstasy 025178
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason - Cause effect chains and heuristics 015109
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason - Heuristics and the systems of the universes 015111
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason - Home schooling 015107
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason - How to use the knowledge gained? 015114
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason - Inner speech 015108
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason - On Deists and Theists 015113
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason - On the 5 senses 015106
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason - Synthesis 006077
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason - The Ultimate Intelligence 015110
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason - The Ultimate Intelligence as First Cause 015112
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 01 Chapter One 015092
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 02 Chapter One 015093
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 03 Chapter One 015094
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 04 Chapter One 015095
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 05 Chapter One 015096
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 06 Chapter Two 015102
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 07 Chapter Two 015103
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 08 Chapter Two 015104
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 09 Chapter Two 015115
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 10 Chapter Two 015116
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 11 Chapter Two 015117
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 12 Chapter Three 015121
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - How are hallucinations & visions constructed? 015122
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - The illusion of form 015129
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - The invalidity of the threat of hell 015130
- Kant, Immanuel - Quotes - Infinite spirit 015098
- Kant, Immanuel - Quotes - On Leibnitz and the atom 015101
- Kant, Immanuel - Quotes - What is Life? 015100
- Kant, Immanuel - Quotes - Where is heaven and ascent 015118
- Kant, Immanuel - Quotes - Where is the soul? 015099
- Kava, disability and depression 010343
- Mahler, Gustav - 2nd Resurrection 006154
- Mahler, Gustav - Adagietto from the 5th symphony 006153
- Pascal, Blaise - The Memorial of Pascal 000037
- Scriabin 005945
Out of time
- Bingen, Hildegard of - My spirit mounts upwards into the height of the firmament 000147
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Out of body 000152
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 11 Chapter Two 015117
- Kant, Immanuel - Quotes - Demons 015120
- Out of body during migraine 006831
- Robert H. RUSSEL DAVIS’s wife lectures her husband on the political situation in France 028197
- Simon Lewis - And his near death experience 014693
In time
- An invisible force seemed to taunt me and pull me around the room 014433
- Bingen, Hildegard of - A vision of flames and stars 007397
- Bingen, Hildegard of - And their sound was like the voice of a multitude 005817
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Helped by monks 000151
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Liber Divinorum Operum 13th century 016066
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Scivias, Rupertsberg Codex, 12th century 016049
- Bingen, Hildegard of - The valley of scorpions 004504
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Walls of flame 000153
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Werk Gottes map 004503
- David Lewis-Williams on migraine 000149
- Farrelly, Frances - 'Kay' feels others illness 004159
- Farrelly, Frances - Diagnosing diabetes and blood clot 004212
- Farrelly, Frances - Diagnosing TB in the ear 004213
- Farrelly, Frances - Meteorites and missing people 004216
- Farrelly, Frances - Pain in the bum 004217
- Farrelly, Frances - Remote diagnosis using blood 004214
- Farrelly, Frances - Sensing the sadness in a ring 004238
- Farrelly, Frances - Super mice saved from poison 004210
- Farrelly, Frances - Warning of a blown tyre 004215
- Fioricet - Hallucination figures from eHealthme 012205
- Fiorinal - eHealthme figures for hallucinations 012206
- Fludd, Robert - Integrae Natura 011171
- Fludd, Robert - Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris - 1 000154
- Fludd, Robert - Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris - 4 011170
- Fludd, Robert - Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris - 5 011172
- Independent newspaper - US scientist identifies 'wind turbine syndrome' 016178
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 11 Chapter Two 015117
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 12 Chapter Three 015121
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - Spirit communication 015126
- Kant, Immanuel - Quotes - Demons 015120
- Kant, Immanuel - Quotes - On inter composer communication 015097
- Laubscher, B J F - Mrs May Davies from Pinelands in the Cape, has a vision of her Mother 023259
- Oliver Sacks - Emerging from a manhole 001622
- Pascal, Blaise - The Memorial of Pascal 000037
- Paul Devereux - On Migraine and mushrooms 000148
- Robert H. RUSSEL DAVIS’s wife lectures her husband on the political situation in France 028197
- Simon Lewis - And his near death experience 014693
- Sleeping pills cause hallucinations 002360
- Stopped Cluster Headaches But ... Ibogaine by Exekiel 017435
Prophecy
- Farrelly, Frances - Saved from train crashes 004208
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason - On prophecy 015105
Environmental Influence
- Farrelly, Frances - Spinning coins to order heads or tails 004198
- Farrelly, Frances - Super mice saved from poison 004210