Objective.—To describe the ritual and ethnobotanical treatments about migraine performed
by shamans from several native cultures. Methods.—Anthropological field study conducted …

Traditional remedies for headache are widely practiced throughout the world. They appear
to be more popular in Africa, Asia, and South America. In this chapter, the different methods …

Headache, specifically migraine, is an extremely frequent and debilitating syndrome with
worldwide prevalence, including indigenous cultures of Amazonia. This paper considers …

Background.—Headache is one of the most frequently reported disorders in the general
adult population. Despite the fact that this disorder is common, no official estimate of the …

The affliction of migraine knows no geographical boundaries; it favors no century or age.
From the earliest writings in ancient Sumaria, migraine has been recognized. In Babylon …

Epidemiologic studies on headache among the Mestizo population in the rural village of
Quiroga, Ecuador, was carried out as part of a neuroepidemiologic project under …

The history of a medical charity founded for the purpose of initiating research into the
commonest of all human afflictions—headache. Of the 100 causes, migraine is one of the …

Since the creation of the B razilian H eadache S ociety in 1978, substantial developments
have taken place in both research and clinical practice in the field of headache medicine in …

The opinions held over the past 50 years about the etiology of migraine have been
summarized by Critchley. 41 Most discarded theories have had some grain of truth, albeit a …

Objective.—To determine the population‐based prevalence of migraine in a cross‐sectional
random sample of Mexican Americans aged at least 45 years in San Diego County …