Along with enhancing mood and relieving insomnia, tryptophan has many other health benefits. There is a lot of evidence that tryptophan may help to alleviate migraine headaches and irritable bowel syndrome. Tryptophan can also help those people who are trying to lose weight by decreasing cravings for carbohydrates that usually can frustrate dieters.
Tryptophan depletion [...]
Drugs For Migraine Treatment
Anti-Serotonin Drugs
Cyproheptadine (Periactin, Perhetine)
This drug blocks the receptors for the neurochemical serotonin in the brain and prevents dilatation of the blood vessels which cause a headache - most important factors in preventing migraine. It also has antihistamine and anti-acetylcholine effects. Its efficacy is low. [...]
A very unique head pain, headache migraines are the utmost and quite unique in comparison to a common headache. Most common headaches are straightforwardly treatable and explainable. In comparison to the common headache however, migraines are the outcome of stress in the muscles on the back of the neck and head which are the consequence [...]