A cikin 200 KZ, rubuce-rubuce daga makarantar Hippocratic na magani sun bayyana yanayin gani wanda zai iya gaba da ciwon kai da kuma wani sashi na taimako wanda ya faru ta hanyar zubar da jini. Wani bayanin karni na biyu da Aretaeus na Cappadocia ya raba ciwon kai zuwa nau'i uku: cephalalgia, cephalea, da heterocrania. Galen na Peron ya yi amfani da kalmar hemicrania (rabin-kai), wanda daga bisani aka samo kalmar migraine. Ya kuma ba da shawarar cewa ciwon ya samo asali ne daga meninges da jini na kwakwalwar kai. An fara rarraba migraines zuwa nau'i biyu da ake amfani da su yanzu <unk> migraine tare da aura (migraine ophthalmic) da migraine ba tare da migraine ba (migraine vulgar) a cikin harshen Faransanci Thomas Louis Hyacarian a 1887. Tambaya: Ta yaya migraine ya kasance?
hemicrania (rabin kai)