That is an important question. Do not stop them on your own, but reducing them is indeed the right goal.

There is something to check first. If you are taking painkillers on ten or more days a month, there is a possibility of medication-overuse headache. In this case the medicine comes to sustain the headache at the same time as reducing it.

However, even then, stopping suddenly brings a severe rebound headache. You have to get through a difficult period of days to weeks, and it is safer to carry out this process in consultation with a neurologist.

Herbal medicine's role is to manage the frequency and intensity of headache during that process. It is more accurate to see it as working in the direction of making painkillers less necessary than as a medicine that replaces them.

Please tell us the name of the painkiller you take and on how many days a month you take it.