Treating vertigo naturally • How homeopathy helps

Insufficient sleep, physical and mental overload or even poorly adjusted glasses are examples of why dizziness can occur even in healthy people. People with low blood pressure know dizziness if they get out of bed too quickly in the morning.

Traveling with a carousel causes most people to feel dizzy, and standing at high altitudes or driving in a car, train or boat also causes dizziness in many healthy people.

At a glance:

There are different types of dizziness

• Spinning dizziness (attack dizziness): You have the feeling that everything turns clockwise or counterclockwise. Rotational vertigo sets in from one moment to the next and the vertigo attacks usually last from a few seconds to hours.

• Staggering dizziness: There is a sudden onset of equilibrium and the feeling that the ground is swaying. Staggering dizziness can occur at rest or in motion, standing and walking become unsafe. Dizziness attacks often last only a few seconds.

• Lift dizziness: The typical sensation is to be pulled down or up in an elevator, or to fall forward or to the side.

• Positional dizziness: This type of dizziness mainly occurs in older people. Positional vertigo lasts only a few seconds and occurs after rapid movements of the head.

• Vertebral vertigo (cervical spine dizziness): Vertebral vertigo is very common and is caused by incorrect posture and tension in the neck or shoulders.

• Central dizziness: The central dizziness is the result of brain damage.

• Psychogenic dizziness: This is caused by psychological stress.

If there is no plausible reason for the dizziness, if it occurs frequently or during certain movements or if it is linked to other physical problems, those affected should consult a doctor. This is the only way to find out whether it is a symptom of a serious illness.

Homeopathy: important medicines and their effects

Treat dizziness with homeopathy

If the dizziness is the symptom of a disease, it should be treated by a doctor. If the underlying disease is treated effectively, homeopathy for dizziness can be used at the same time. Homeopathic therapy can effectively support other treatment methods. Such treatment should be carried out by a trained homeopath.

Homeopathy for dizziness can also help eliminate acute dizziness symptoms and vertigo (dizziness with buzzing in the ears, gait insecurity, sweating, nausea).

Globules, tablets or drops are available for the homeopathic treatment of vertigo. In addition to individual homeopathic remedies, there are also homeopathic complex remedies in which various medicines are combined. Both homeopathic single remedies and combination preparations can be used in addition to drug therapy.

Homeopathic remedies for dizziness

Individual homeopathic remedies are selected based on symptoms, so that the same homeopathic remedy does not relieve dizziness, drowsiness, and other ailments in every person and every situation. The drug that best describes the symptoms should be selected.

Homeopathic medicines can be used in acute cases or for recurring symptoms. The success of homeopathy should set in quickly and noticeably. Depending on the course, the funds can be taken repeatedly several times. It is best to choose a low potency such as D6, D12 or D30.

The following remedies can be used to treat dizziness:

Aconite:

• Dizziness when getting up from lying down, the red face turns pale
• Falling through the dizziness with fear of getting up again
• Becoming black and loss of consciousness
• Dizziness from shock, fall, or tremor
• Dizziness caused by blood, like in the sun
• Tumbling when bending over to the right

Argentum nitricum:

• Dizziness when looking at tall buildings
• great fear of high places

Apis mellifica:

• Dizziness when closing your eyes, especially when lying with your eyes closed

Bryonia:

• Dizziness when getting up from sitting and lying down
• Dizziness and fainting when lifting your head
• The slightest movement makes dizziness worse
• Tendency to fall backwards
• dry tongue with thirst for large quantities
• Constipation

Belladonna:

• Dizziness comes suddenly and very strongly
• Rush of blood to the head with dizziness
• Dizziness with pulsation in the head, dilated pupils and nausea
• Feels like you're rocking up and down in bed
• Feeling as if you would sink with the bed or through the bed
• Tends to fall left or backward
• Objects sway back and forth

Conium:

• Dizziness when you turn or move your head and when you turn your eyes
• Sensation to spin in a circle
• when lying down feeling as if the bed is turning
• Dizziness when turning over in bed, looking around, getting up from sitting
• Dizziness when watching moving objects
• cannot tolerate alcohol

China:

• Dizziness and fainting after blood loss
• Dizziness when the head is inclined

Gelsemium:

• in case of dizziness, the head feels light and large
• if you feel dizzy, your vision is blurred
• when you move you have a feeling of intoxication
• Loss of coordination
• Feeling of falling
• Aggravation in the heat of the sun and in summer
• Aggravation from tobacco use

Chelidonium:

• Dizziness with bilious vomiting and pain in the liver
• stagger like falling forward
• Dizziness when you close your eyes as if everything was going in a circle
• Dizziness when trying to get up must stay in bed

Cocculus:

• Things turn, especially right to left
• accompanying confusion and nausea
• Rotational vertigo especially when getting up from lying down
• Migraines with nausea and dizziness from driving in the car, on the train by ship and so on
• Seasickness
• A feeling of emptiness in the head, stomach and chest
• extreme reluctance to eat, nausea from the smell of food

Dulcamara:

• temporary dizziness with blackening in front of the eyes
• Feeling as if all objects stop in front of you
• it turns black in front of your eyes

Ferrum:

• very red face and cold feet
• Dizziness from walking over a bridge and driving in a car

Lycopodium:

• everything turns, you fear to fall
• Dizziness while drinking
• Dizziness in the warm room

Natrum muriaticum:

• Dizziness with flickering before the eyes
• Objects are spinning
• Tendency to fall forward
• after coffee, tea, alcohol and tobacco
• Dizziness from eye strain

Nux vomica:

• Dizziness when getting up from sitting and lifting the head
• Dizziness with loss of vision or hearing
• you have to hold on in order not to fall over
• the objects around you seem to be moving
• you fall forward, sideways or backwards
• the room turns as if the brain is spinning in a circle
• Triggers are indigestion, constipation, sedentary lifestyle, alcohol, tobacco, smell of flowers or gasoline, mental strain

Opium:

• severe dizziness forces you to lie down
• Feeling as if everything was going around in circles
• Feeling like you're starting to fly or floating in the air
• Fainting with dizziness when standing up

Phosphorus:

• Dizziness when looking up and down
• Feeling like the chair you're sitting on is getting higher and higher
• Feeling like falling forward
• stagger when walking, everything turns
• triggered by the smell of flowers and mental exertion

Petroleum:

• Dizziness in the back of the head, as if intoxicated, like seasickness

Pulsatilla:

• extremely violent dizziness, like a high or as if you had been spinning in a circle for a long time
• Aggravation when sitting and lying down, better when walking in the fresh air
• Dizziness due to indigestion with vomiting
• Dizziness when the eyes are turned up

Silicea:

• Dizziness to the point of fainting, with nausea
• Dizziness creeps up the spine in the head
• Tendency to fall forward
• worse with eyes closed, stops opening eyes
• Giddiness with vomiting
• Dizziness during sleep
• as if it were swarming in the head like little animals that are floating around in it
• Improvement in the fresh air, worse if you go back into the room

Sanguinaria:

• you cannot turn quickly because of the dizziness without being afraid of falling
• Dizziness with persistent nausea and headache, then convulsive vomiting
• Dizziness when the head is turned quickly, when standing up, lying down and while sleeping
• Fainting dizziness
• Dizziness in cold weather
• Dizziness with migraines

Sulfur:

• going out into the fresh air or standing for a while makes you dizzy
• in the morning when you get up, your head feels numb and when you stand up, you feel dizzy
• Dizziness when lying on your back

Tabacum:

• Dizziness with pronounced heaviness of the head
• Weakness to loss of consciousness
• Improvement through fresh air and vomiting
• Dizziness when standing up and looking up
• through increased enjoyment of tobacco
• Dizziness with sweating
• violent nausea with severe vomiting

Absolutely to the doctor if …

• Dizziness occurs suddenly and for no apparent reason,
• sometimes the ground sways under your feet or the environment turns,
• Dizziness occurs with certain head movements
• accompanying symptoms such as nausea, headache, earache, hearing problems, drowsiness, fainting, fever, fatigue, heart stumbling or shortness of breath,
• Dizziness occurring during an illness such as otitis media, flu or herpes zoster,
• Dizziness occurs in very specific situations such as in the elevator, in crowds or before important appointments.

Various diseases can have dizziness as a symptom of the disease, for example:

• Eye diseases
• Diabetes mellitus
• Cardiovascular diseases
• multiple sclerosis
• Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia
• migraine
• epilepsy
• Cerebellar atrophy
• mental illnesses such as anxiety disorders.
• high fever
• Low blood sugar

All information about the various forms of vertigo and conventional therapy can be found in the Lifeline Special on the topic.

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