There are three possible causes of headache behind the ear, with different pain relief methods used: i. Vascular headache, where the pain is deep pain and the patient does not cause the pain to increase when pressing on the painful area. Treatment is based on the use of proprietary Chinese medicine or non-steroidal antipyretic and analgesic drugs, commonly used as headache nin capsules, tianshu capsules, tianmusu capsules or ibuprofen and naproxen. Some patients can also use strong vasoconstrictive drugs, such as sumatriptan and zolmitriptan, which need to be noted that such drugs have the risk of causing increased blood pressure, or distal limb ischemia and necrosis. Second, neuralgia and pain behind the ear, commonly occipital neuralgia or auricular major neuralgia, can lead to increased pain when pressure is applied to the painful area. Treatment with drugs targeting neuralgia, such as carbamazepine, pregabalin, and gabapentin. Myofasciitis, the muscle of the posterior occipital area is connected to the neck, and myofasciitis causes pain commonly in patients with combined cervical spondylosis. When pressing the local muscles, there is soreness and swelling, but the symptoms can be relieved within a short time after gentle massage. Muscle relaxants, such as cloxazolazone, eperisone, tizanidine, etc., are commonly used.