{"id":844,"date":"2021-07-13T11:08:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T09:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akupunktur-freystaetter.de\/?page_id=844"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:02:21","slug":"migraine-tcm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/akupunktur-freystaetter.de\/en\/migraine-tcm\/","title":{"rendered":"MIGRAINE &#038; TCM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chinese Medicine uses a detailed intake protocol to diagnose patients with migraine.&nbsp; My TCM colleague Dr. Anne Hardy (with her own clinic in Sachsenhausen here in Frankfurt) has devised a form with 16 questions for identifying the TCM Syndrome matching the patient&#8217;s migraine pattern. I use the these questions and TCM&#8217;s tongue &amp; pulse diagnosis for classifying and treating a patient&#8217;s migraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few things that are noteworthy when it comes to Chinese Medicine and migraine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For female patients: The type of migraine pattern can be substantiated by carefully analyzing the menstruation cycle characteristics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The pain pattern on the head can be mapped to the acupuncture channels.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All the accompanying side effects like nausea, vomitting, diarrhea, oedema, insomnia, vision problems, increased appetite, tension under the rib cage, mood swings will be used to classify the migraine pattern.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Any trigger factors will contribute to understanding the underlying syndrome pattern.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In this way the full strength and versatility of Chinese Medicine theory is used to assemble a tailored and focused treatment protocol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With its &#8216;branch and tree&#8217; diagnosis underlying causes can be addressed side by side with the treatment of the migraine pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the treatment, patients benefit from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>advice on sleeping, rest &amp; work patterns<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>emotional coping<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>nutritional advice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Qigong exercises to boost the effect of the ongoing acupuncture &amp; Tuina treatment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have questions about how Chinese Medicine can treat and help you cope with migraine attacks, please contact me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can book an appointment online:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doctolib.de\/heilpraktiker\/frankfurt-am-main\/werner-freystaetter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/freystaetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/termin_online_blau.jpg\" alt=\"termin_online_blau\" class=\"wp-image-4\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>or send me an E-mail with your preferred time slot: praxis@freystaetter.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Medicine uses a detailed intake protocol to diagnose patients with migraine.&nbsp; My TCM colleague Dr. Anne Hardy (with her own clinic in Sachsenhausen here in Frankfurt) has devised a form with 16 questions for identifying the TCM Syndrome matching the patient&#8217;s migraine pattern. I use the these questions and TCM&#8217;s tongue &amp; pulse diagnosis for classifying and treating a patient&#8217;s migraine. A few things that are noteworthy when it comes to Chinese Medicine and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-844","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akupunktur-freystaetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akupunktur-freystaetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akupunktur-freystaetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akupunktur-freystaetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akupunktur-freystaetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/akupunktur-freystaetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"https:\/\/akupunktur-freystaetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/844\/revisions\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akupunktur-freystaetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}