Chinese medicine and acupuncture have conducted in-depth research on headache in China, and many cultural and historical records are still widely circulated. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao had a headache, and the famous doctor Hua Tuo was diagnosed as a brain tumor. He is going to anesthetize with hemp boiling powder, and then cut his head open with a sharp axe to take out the root of the disease. Just because Cao Cao didn't believe it, he suspected that Hua Tuo had murdered himself and didn't have the operation. In the end, he died of unbearable headache, decreased vision and mental abnormality. From a medical point of view, it is likely that brain tumor leads to increased intracranial pressure and compression of optic nerve leads to decreased vision. Tumors invade brain tissues that manage mental activities, such as temporal lobe or frontal lobe, thus causing mental abnormalities. It shows that as early as the 2nd century AD, China had an in-depth headache research, and craniotomy became possible. Tang Gaozong is very fat, often has headaches, and suddenly can't talk. The doctor diagnosed him as wind vertigo. He used acupuncture to bleed the two temples, combined with drug treatment, to alleviate the condition. According to our current point of view, Li Zhi was suffering from high blood pressure, which often caused vasospasm and insufficient blood supply to the brain. After bloodletting treatment, certain effects were achieved.

Acupuncture has been used to treat headache for at least 2000 years, and the acupuncture points for treating headache are mostly distributed on the three Yang meridians of the hands and feet. However, Chinese medicine has strict dialectical treatment of headache, emphasizing the relationship between headache and general condition, and regulating it as a whole, rather than treating headache and foot pain. Thousands of years of history have proved that it can effectively relieve headaches. Although the mechanism of acupuncture analgesia is not completely clear, experts in many countries have done quite successful research. For example, Japan, Russia, France and Germany all have full-time personnel to study the mechanism of acupuncture analgesia.

There are countless Chinese medicines for treating headaches. Herba Schizonepetae, Radix Saposhnikoviae, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Asari, and Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens have the effect of dispersing cold, and are effective for colds and headaches. Traditional Chinese medicines for dispelling wind and heat include mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, Bupleurum root, kudzu root, Cimicifuga rhizome, etc., which are effective for fever and headache. Traditional Chinese medicines for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis include Salvia Miltiorrhiza, Ligusticum Chuanxiong, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Rhizoma Corydalis, Olibanum and Myrrha, which are effective for headache caused by blood stasis. Antipsychotics such as Semen Ziziphi Spinosae, Semen Platycladi, Rhizoma Acori Graminei, Cortex et Radix Polygalae, Cinnabaris, Amber, Concha Ostreae, Emerald, Concha Haliotidis, etc. It is effective for headache caused by insomnia and fright. These are the crystallization of several generations' experience and the treasure house of world medicine, which provides us with many effective methods to treat headaches.