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Headache is among the most common presentations in clinical practice. In TCM, it may arise from external pathogenic invasion or internal organ dysfunction. Differentiation focuses first on external vs. internal origin, then on channel location and the nature of repletion or vacuity.
Key differentiation: External headaches have acute onset with exterior signs; internal headaches are chronic with organ-pattern features. Frontal pain relates to Yangming, temporal to Shaoyang, occipital to Taiyang, and vertex to Jueyin.
@misc{bencaodian-tou-tong,
author = {{Bencaodian Editorial}},
title = {Tou Tong 头痛 (Headache)},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Bencao Dian: A Bilingual Knowledge Graph of Traditional Chinese Medicine},
url = {https://bencaodian.org/en/conditions/tou-tong},
urldate = {2026-04-17},
note = {CC BY-SA 4.0}
}© Bencaodian Editorial · Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0