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Effect of Ayurvedic Treatment in Migraine Headache

Phase 3
Conditions
Health Condition 1: G430- Migraine without aura
Registration Number
CTRI/2024/03/064626
Lead Sponsor
Dr Kumar Prabhat Bishnu
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot Yet Recruiting
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
0
Inclusion Criteria

Patients who will meet following criteria will be selected for the study.

a) Adult patients (aged 18-65 years) with a diagnosis of Migraine without aura according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders 3ß (ICHD3) criteria.

b) Patients with history of migraine type headache without aura for at least 1 year prior to the study and before the age of 50.

c) Patients who have at least two migraine attacks per month in the last 3 months before the recruitment and not more than 15 days per month.

d) Participants who are medically fit for nasya karma.

e) Patients able to maintain a headache diary.

f) Patients able and willing to provide written informed consent.

g) No expectation that subject will be moving out of the area of the study center during the next 2 months.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients who will have following characteristics not be selected for the study.

a) Patients with a history of migraine type headache with aura.

b) Patients with a history of hypersensitivity to any of study medications.

c) Patients with abnormal vital signs, renal failure, hepatic disease, heart disease or any clinically significant systemic diseases.

d) Patients with headache other than migraine, severe psychiatric disease, infections and malignancy.

e) Patients who had taken migraine prevention drugs during the last 2 months prior to study.

f) Patients’ headache attacks are associated with or attributable to an identifiable cause, such as: premenstrual period; a disease of eye, ear or nose; a neurological disease; or a psychiatric illness.

g) Patients are diagnosed to have nasal pathologies that may interfere with the drug absorption.

h) Patients who will unable to continue for the proposed length of treatment or return for follow-up visits.

i) Serum SGOT and SGPT, Alkaline Phosphatase, Creatinine and Total bilirubin greater than the upper limits of the normal (ULN) of the reference range at the screening assessment.

j) Patients with medication overuse and patients who had not responded to more than two different prophylactic agents.

k) Inability to mark a visual analogue pain scale (VAS).

l) Active participation in any type of intervention study.

m) Patients who start developing complications.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Mean change in the number of migraine attacks (frequency) and the number of days with moderate or severe headache and hours with headache (duration) per month in the final 8 weeks in comparison with baseline.Timepoint: day 60
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
1. Mean change in the severity of headache on a visual analogue scale, HIT-6 & MIDAS scores, & migraine-associated symptoms between baseline & 8 weeks. <br/ ><br>2. Mean change in frequency of taking rescue medicine during attacks between baseline & 8 weeks. <br/ ><br>Timepoint: day 60
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