What medication to take for a throbbing headache needs to be based on the specific cause of the disease. If the headache caused by high blood pressure need to take antihypertensive drugs to control, blood pressure can improve the symptoms after stabilizing; if the headache caused by migraine, need to choose ibuprofen, sumatriptan and other pain medication; if it is due to the scalp nerve pain, you need to take gabapentin, carbamazepine and other drugs. 1. Hypertension: Patients with high blood pressure who have poor blood pressure control will cause vascular throbbing headache, which will also show the symptom of throbbing pain in the head. This needs to take antihypertensive drugs, such as nifedipine, amlodipine, etc., which can improve the symptoms after controlling the blood pressure steadily. 2. Migraine: the disease will show one side of the head pulse-like throbbing pain, usually choose non-steroidal anti-inflammatory pain medication, such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen and other drugs, if the effect is not good, you can choose treprostinil drugs, such as sumatriptan and other pain treatment. 3. Scalp nerve pain: If the head throbbing pain is sudden pain several times, irregular. But there is a local burning sensation, skin pain allergy, touching the hair will also cause pain, combing the hair and touching the scalp will be caused by the headache, it may be scalp nerve pain, you can take carbamazepine, gabapentin and other drugs for symptomatic treatment. Therefore, the cause of head throbbing pain is very complex, need to choose the appropriate drugs for treatment according to the specific cause.