Chinese medicine had a profound understanding of headache as early as more than two thousand years ago. Throughout the ages, doctors have roughly divided headaches into the following categories: wind-cold headaches; Wind-heat headache; Rheumatoid headache; Liver-yang headache; Phlegm dampness with wind headache; Blood stasis headache; Headache caused by deficiency of qi and blood; Headache due to kidney-yang deficiency; Headache due to kidney yin deficiency; A severe headache.