Recently, Zhu Kaiyun, director of the Department of Neurology of the District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, saw a patient with severe chronic migraine and successfully cured her. A woman named Zhang, 45 years old, had been suffering from recurrent attacks for nearly 30 years. Because of the perennial headache, Ms. Zhang had not gone to work for 15 years. To her surprise, the headache symptoms had been significantly relieved after a week of treatment at the district Chinese medicine hospital. According to Ms. Zhang’s recollection, she has had headaches since she was about 13 to 14 years old. Her headache symptoms were bilateral temporal throbbing pain, which was severe, sometimes accompanied by nausea, vomiting and fear of sound and light, and the headache would be aggravated by activities. In the first few years, Ms. Zhang’s headache attacks were less frequent, but as she grew older, they became more frequent. Since 1995, her headache symptoms were slightly reduced after taking painkillers, but she would still feel dizzy and swollen all day long. Since then, Ms. Zhang did not go to work officially, and even doing housework at home was difficult. Because of the chronic headache, Ms. Zhang went to several tertiary hospitals and had various head examinations, including MRI, CT and EEG, but no abnormal findings were found. On the introduction of her relatives, Ms. Zhang was treated continuously in the neurology department of a tertiary hospital in Guangzhou for half a year, but the effect was not obvious. Ms. Zhang said that every time she had a headache, she still needed to rely on painkillers to relieve the pain, and the headache symptoms usually disappeared within 30-60 minutes after each dose of painkillers. However, as the headache attacks increased and she took more and more painkillers, the effectiveness of the painkillers gradually decreased. As a result of taking the medication all year round, Ms. Zhang also suffered from stomach problems, which added to her misery. In September this year, Ms. Zhang was introduced by a friend and found Professor Zhu Kaiyun of the District Central Hospital. According to Professor Zhu’s diagnosis, Ms. Zhang was suffering from chronic migraine. Due to the long-term headache, she also had anxiety and depression symptoms. After 1 week of symptomatic treatment, the headache and dizziness were reduced by 70%, and Ms. Zhang said she had never been so comfortable in more than 10 years. It is understood that Ms. Zhang’s family is not well-off, her two children are in school, and she has been unable to work for 15 years because of her long-standing headaches, and the family only relies on her husband’s modest salary to support the family. After one month of treatment, Ms. Zhang happily told Professor Zhu at her follow-up appointment that she had been working normally for some time. Professor Zhu reminded the public that it is better to make a correct diagnosis for primary headache patients firstly, and secondly to choose the right medicine. It is better to get systematic and regular treatment for migraine at the beginning so that it will not develop into chronic migraine or evolve into painkiller overuse headache.