TENSION HEADACHE DURING THE PANDEMIC PERIOD AN AYURVEDIC OVERVIEW

Abstract

World is going through a period of pandemic and has been hit by economic recession, thus leading to peo-ple losing their jobs and the way of their livelihood has come to a halt. Leading to mental frustration in turn leading to a growth in tension headache cases. Thus, headache or cephalgia is the symptom of pain any-where in the region of head, neck or scalp. Among the different types of headache, tension type of head-ache is most commonly seen neglected and difficult to treat. The modern treatment is restricted towards symptomatic relief and no permanent cure. It is characterized by pain, which is typically pressing or tight-ening in quality, mild to moderate in intensity and bilateral in nature, which can be correlated with Vataja Shirashoola. This paper investigates how pandemic has affected the tension headache and how can we prevent and manage it by Ayurveda.