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Human Studies, Pharmacology/Drug Development

PAIN TYPE:
Migraine/Headache


2021 Jan 12


Cephalalgia

Use of medicinal plants for headache, and their potential implication in medication-overuse headache: Evidence from a population-based study in Nepal.

Authors

Sørnes E Ø, Risal A, Manandhar K, Thomas H, Steiner TJ, Linde M
Cephalalgia. 2021 Jan 12:333102420970904.
PMID: 33435708.

Abstract

In Nepal, traditional treatment using medicinal plants is popular. Whereas medication-overuse headache is, by definition, caused by excessive use of acute headache medication, we hypothesized that medicinal plants, being pharmacologically active, were as likely a cause.