Headaches and Acupuncture 

Your Headaches can be helped with Traditional Five Element Acupuncture, how your headache affects you. Headaches affect each person differently. Traditional acupuncture embraces this.

There of lots of descriptions of headaches – 

Tension headache, cluster headache, migraine headache, pick headache, thunderclap headache, allergy or sinus headache, hormone headache (also known as menstrual migraine), caffeine headache, exertion headache, hypertension headache, rebound headache, post-traumatic headache, neck cervical headache, Episodic headaches, Chronic headaches. Lots of names Though in Traditional Five Element Acupuncture we find the underling cause. 

And the NHS say that Acupuncture can help Headaches, that is all good, but how does affect you? https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/acupuncture/

Understanding You and Your Headaches

When you attend your first consultation of Traditional Five Element Acupuncture, your acupuncturist will take a full history of conditions you suffer from, now and in the past and how these make you feel. Also asking about your whole system physical and emotional, understanding you’re eating habits, and how your digestion is top to bottom and what fluids go in and come out. Your stresses and strains, and how these affect you.  Past and present injuries, illnesses and operations. Relationships, loss and loves. How you sleep and how affect this affects you. Your work, pastimes, retirement hobbies and life changes. How you feel at different times of the day and seasons. 

Basically, understanding how you tick! To find your constitutional diagnosis to help you feel better with your headaches and other factors that may be affecting you. Over the years I have treated many patients with headaches and migraine misery and gladly seen many happy and well. I love to see my patients feel well again, so come along and find some relief. 

Understanding your constitutional diagnosis and the Five Elements in you see page – https://www.southwellacupuncture.co.uk/acupuncture-five-elements/

Traditional Five Element Acupuncture Treatment 

For more information and treatment contact Hannah Charles on – https://www.southwellacupuncture.co.uk/contact/

HEADACHE RED FLAGS 

In some cases, a headache may require emergency medical attention. Seek immediate medical care if you are experiencing any of the following symptoms alongside your headache – 

• Stiff neck
• Rash
• The worst headache you have ever had
• Vomiting
• Confusion
• Slurred speech
• Fever of over 38 degrees
• Paralysis
• Visual loss

Hannah Charles is a founder member of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC)

The BAcC is an advocate for traditional acupuncture professionals and maintains the highest professional standards to protect the general public. BAcC members belong to an accredited register, regulated and approved by the Professional Standards Authority for Health & Social Care (PSA). For More information, see the website – https://acupuncture.org.uk/

British Acupuncture Council Research factsheet on headaches

https://acupuncture.org.uk/fact-sheets/headache/

Other reading on Acupuncture and Headaches on my website

https://www.southwellacupuncture.co.uk/blog/2025/05/06/migraines-acupuncture/

https://www.southwellacupuncture.co.uk/blog/2020/03/10/tension-headaches-and-acupuncture/