and ergotamine (Cafergot, Ergomar, Ergostat, others). These drugs are used only to treat severe, throbbing headaches like migraine and cluster headaches. Ergot alkaloids are among the oldest ...
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Ergotamine is a prescription medicine used to treat acute migraine headache. This medicine helps by narrowing the blood vessels thereby relieving the migraine headaches. Pregnancy: UNSAFE ...
Ergot alkaloids were the first antimigraine drugs available. Dihydroergotamine (DHE) is an ergotamine analog (Figure 3). DHE is administered as a nasal spray form (Migranal®, Valeant ...