Researchers have found that CBD may help to treat many different health conditions, and hence people ask whether it can be used for treatment of migraine too.
Plenty of evidences has been found that supports that CBD can also be used for treatment of migraines, though research still is in preliminary stage. So far, only few anecdotal evidences have been found and more research will reveal more information.
Let us take a closer look about CBD tincture for migraine and understand what it is and how it will work and what you can expect.
Migraine symptoms
Let us take a fresh look on various symptoms of migraine before concluding how CBD may help to reduce this problem. Also, let us try to understand how such headache can create various negative consequences in our daily life.
Problem of migraine is considered to be more than strong headache and usually this problem tends to remain on our one side of head. Also, they are accompanied by few other common symptoms like tingling sensation in our arms and legs.
Few also feel a flash of light that often come just before the headache. Often such migraine may remain for few hours and sometimes it may even continue for few days.
Most of the migraines will go through 4 stages:
- During prodrome stage, it is only premonitory stage.
- Next stage is aura stage when the patient will experience tingling or certain visual symptoms.
- During the stage of headache, it is called main attack.
- Finally, during postdrome stage when it is time for recovery then many people may experience all the above stages, but it may not be for everyone.
During the main stage of migraine pain may include pulsating and throbbing pain, which may worsen with any physical activity, abdominal pain, heartburn, lightheadedness, blurred vision, fainting, nausea, vomiting and also extreme sensitivity to sound, smell or light.
Properties of CBD that can help migraine
There are few properties of CBD which has been found by medical researchers, that it can influence a lot on the migraine. It can work as a great pain reliever and some of the property can be potent pain reliever for people suffering from migraine.
Not only just migraine issue, the CBD can also cure nausea and vomiting which are often associated with migraine. Researchers have found that anti-emetic properties of CBD can prevent nausea as well as vomiting, and this can be incredibly helpful to those suffering from migraine.
Quite often many patients also suffer from inflammation problem along with having migraine problem. According to many health experts, pain of migraine and headaches can be caused at least little bit due to intense sensory stimulation of nerve.
There can be number of inflammatory agents which may get released when people are suffering from migraine attack. In case this kind of symptom is shown then various properties of CBD may certainly counter that inflammation problem.
This may provide help to get relief from that pain.
