All You Wanted to Know About Headache

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You need this book for better health and longer life. For more up-to-date information on medical treatments.

A product of the combined knowledge and experience of many doctors and scientists, this book offers a clear look at sickness and therapy - therapy, which uses both alternative care and conventional medicine.

You owe it to yourself to own this Health Update.

All You Wanted to Know About is an easy-to- read reference series put together by Health.

Update and assisted by a team of Medical experts who offer the latest perspectives body health. Each book in the series enhances your knowledge on a particular health issue. It makes you an active participant by giving multiple perspectives to choose from- allopathy, acupuncture, ayurveda, homoeopathy, nature cure and unani.

This book is intended as a home adviser but does not substitute a doctor.

The opinions are those of the contributors, and the publisher holds no responsibility.

Headache, can be defined as discomfort or pain in the head. Tension, migraine, cluster, cervicogenic, after injury, vascular and effort-induced are some of the different types of headaches. In rare cases the headache may be due to a serious diseases such as bleeding in the space around the brain, fever, increased pressure on the brain, severe hypertension and inflammation of some arteries.

Ayurveda lists diet, life-style, environment, psychological, season and injury as common causes of headache. It is to be noted that only 1 % of headache serious.