In the present paper

the authors sum up the same and different view points about acupuncture treatment of migraine in the ancient and modern clinical practice

and make a detailed explanation from three aspects:1) the therapeutic principles

handed down from the ancient times

and still surviving in clinical practice nowadays:2) the traditional principles recorded only in the ancient literature but given up in modern treatment;and 3) the new therapeutic principles innovated in modern clinical practice.Further comprehensive analysis reveals that the modern therapeutic principles for migraine are still relatively simple in spite of having some rather strong advantages

and some important traditional therapeutic principles have been lost unfortunately. The authors strongly recommend that the migraine

a commonly seen problem in clinic

may be managed from a new angle

i.e.

solving it by puncturing acupoints of both Shaoyang and Taiyang meridians on the severer side.