The present invention provides a method for eliciting an onset hastened analgesic and anti-inflammatory response and combating nausea in acute migraine attacks. This method comprises administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising more than one active ingredient, wherein said more than one active ingredient consist essentially of:(i) domperidone or an analogue thereof in an amount sufficient to hasten the onset of the analgesic and anti-inflammatory response and to combat nausea in an acute migraine attack, and(ii) a NSAID, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a pure (−) or pure (+) optical isomeric form thereof in an analgesically and anti-inflammatory effective amount, wherein said NSAID is selected from the group consisting of proprionic acid derivatives, acetic acid derivatives, fenamic acid derivatives, biphenylcarboxylic acid derivatives and oxicams.