There are many reasons for a throbbing headache, such as lack of sleep, colds, high blood pressure and other factors can lead to this situation. 1. Lack of sleep: when long-term sleep deprivation or excessive stress, it is easy to lead to neurasthenia, which causes a throbbing headache. 2. Colds: are stimulated by viral infections on the inflammatory mediators of the central nervous system. In the case of a cold, there will be fever, fever, which will cause a bout of headache. 3. Hypertension: when blood pressure is elevated, it will produce a certain stimulation of the cerebral blood vessels. The more serious patients will have cerebral ischemia, hypoxia, brain damage, etc., which may lead to a throbbing headache. In addition, tension headache, vascular neuralgia headache or occipital neuralgia and other causes can also cause a bout of throbbing headache, it is recommended that patients should go to the hospital in time to find out the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor for treatment.