Migraine and Medical Astrology

Headache has become a universal problem affecting persons of all age groups. But when it occurs frequently or you feel headache on a continuous basis it may result in Migraine. According to WHO (Work Health Organization), more than 15% of the worlds overall population is currently dealing with Migraine. is often preceded or accompanied by sensory warning signs such as flashes of light, blind spots, tingling in the arms and legs, nausea, vomiting, and increased sensitivity to light and sound. The excruciating pain that migraines bring can last for hours or even days. It becomes a kind of disabling illness.

Migraine is a primary disorder in which a person feels continuous pain in any part of the skull and it affects your overall body structure. According to medical terms, Migraine is caused by the excessive stimulation of brain and blood vessel and the headache associated with migraine is one-sidedly accompanied by nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light.

Migraines are now recognized to stem from neural changes in the brain and the releases of neuro inflammatory peptides that in turn constrict blood vessel.

A migraine can cause severe throbbing pain or a pulsing sensation, usually on one side of the head. It’s often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. Migraine attacks can last for hours to days, and the pain can be so severe that it interferes with your daily activities.  In some persons it is seen to get worsened during sunrise, peak during noon and subsides in the evening and in others it may vary.

Causes:

• Consumption of polluted food
• Anger, jealousy, grief and stress
• Indigestion
• Prolonged sleep disorders
• Habit of suppression of nature call
• Exposure to sunshine for prolonged period
• Intake of dry, salty and pungent food
• Allergic and allergic reactions
• Prolonged depression
• Smoking or exposure to smoke
• Tension headache
• Medication such as sleeping tablets
• Hormonal changes
• Pre-Menopause phases
• Heredity
• Pre menstrual symptoms

Experience:

• Pain usually on one side of your head, but often on both sides
• Pain that throbs or pulses
• Sensitivity to light, sound, and sometimes smell and touch
• Nausea and vomiting
• Sweating

Migraine and Medical Astrology

• For disorders related to head, it is the ascendant ruler, ascendant, planets in the ascendant; planets aspect on the ascendant, sun ascendant, moon ascendant all are analyzed. Since blood vessels and nerves are also involved, the role of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn also is crucial study.

• Houses to analyze are 1^st, 4^th, 6^th, 8^th and 12^th.

• Blood in arteries are controlled by Jupiter and head is controlled by Mars and Sun.

• Moon, Mars and Sunare the main planets responsible for this problem. If any of these planets are weak or badly or afflicted in the chart such problems arise.

• Moon: It causes headache due to stress, tension, over thinking. Moon is also responsible for weakening the nerve cells of the brain. In this case, the native feels a headache caused by the improper circulation of blood in the blood cells.

• Mars: Mars is responsible for causing cluster headaches with even by external factors such as weather changes or internal formation of gas & acid in the stomach.

• Sun is also responsible for causing Migraine. It brings along sensitivity to smell, headache due to sunlight, belly pain or even fever.

Combinations:

• If the Lagna Lord is weak, the native faces some serious diseases, mostly pain in any side of the head and even migraine

• If Jupiter and Mars are together or aspect each other negatively or under affliction results in migraine

• If sign Aries or Ascendant is heavily afflicted

• If Moon is in Aries and Saturn is posited in Cancer or Libra or Aquarius

• If Moon is afflicted by Saturn or Rahu

• If the Moon or Mars gets placed in malefic houses, the person will suffer from headache problems.

• Migraine can also occur if someone has done black magic or some evil activity on any person.

• The conjunction of Mars or Moon with any malefic planets like Rahu, Ketu, Saturn is also responsible for headache problems.

• Saturn influencing the ascendant can be a cause due to gas building up in body(flatulence), insomnia, stress

• Mars influencing the ascendant can be a cause due to acid reflux, injury, insomnia, blood pressure or anger.

• Rahu and its influence on related houses can also trigger migraine problem which will be difficult to diagnose

• Mercury if retrograde in chart and if afflicted can cause migraine

Medical Astrology analyzes the native’s personalized chart by studying the related afflictions of houses, planets, weaknesses and inauspicious planetary configurations and effects on the mind, organs, body parts and helps in finding the astrological root cause and recommends necessary remedial measures.