I roto i te 200 BCE, tuhituhi i te Hippocratic kura o te rongoā whakaahuatia te aura tirohanga e taea te mua te mate mahunga me te ma'iriiri wahi puta i roto i te pukupuku. He whakaahuatanga o te rua o nga rau e Aretaeus o Kapadokia wehea mate mahunga ki toru momo: cephalgia, cephalea, me heterocrania. whakamahia Galen o Peron te kupu hemicrania (hawhe-matua), i nei i te mutunga i ahu mai te kupu migraine. whakaaro ano ia i puta te mamae i te meninges me te toto ipu o te matenga. i wehea Migraines tuatahi ki te momo e rua whakamahia inaianei <unk> he migraine ki aura (migraine ophthalmique) me te migraine kahore (migraine vulgaire) i roto i te kupu French Thomas Louis Hyacarian i 1887.
te hemicrania ( haurua o te upoko)