DEFINITION

Vertigo is not a disease it is a symptom of vestibular dysfunction and can be explained as the sensation of motion.it is a condition in which the patient feels objects are going round and round, though the patient is stable and not moving, other symptoms which accompany vertigo are nausea, vomiting, sweating, and difficulty in walking.

CAUSES 

There are two main causes of vertigo

1] Inner ear problems due to which a person's balance gets affected include-

• Meniere’s disease

This disease causes saturation of fluid in the inner ear that can result in vertigo, a typical type of dizziness in which you feel as if you're moving, the sensation of spinning, loss of hearing, ear pressure, and ear ringing (tinnitus). Vertigo sometimes causes severe nausea and imbalance. Hearing loss may become permanent. The duration of vertigo can last for several hours.

 

• Migraine-

 

It is a type of headache that can cause severe throbbing pain or a pulsing sensation in the head, basically on one side of the head .vertigo due to migraine can last minutes to hours.     

• Vestibular neuritis

• This problem is because of infection, usually viral infection and it is related to the inner ear. Due to infection, there is inflammation in the inner ear, around nerves (vestibular nerve) that are important for helping the body sense balance and imbalance.
• Labyrinthitis-An inner ear infection caused by a cold or flu virus

 

(BPPV)Benign paroxysmal vertigo-

This vertigo is because of specific head movements like a blow to the head which creates an intense sense that you’re spinning or moving.

• Medications-

Certain medications can cause and have side effect as vertigo, along with other symptoms like dizziness, hearing loss, tinnitus, or a ringing in the ears

2] Other causes

• Injury to Head or Neck- Vertigo is a common symptom after a traumatic injury to the head or neck, especially if there is damage to the vestibular system.
• brains -such as stroke or tumor.

• Some medications that cause ear damage

• Ear and inner ear surgery
• fistula in the ear, due to a break in the membrane that connect the middle ear to the inner ear due to which inner ear fluid leaks into the middle ear.
• Viral infections like Shingles and herpes zoster in or around the ear.

• Ear problems such as otosclerosis, where a middle ear bone growth problem causes hearing loss
• Syphilis condition
•  muscle weakness
• A stroke 
• cerebellar or brain stem disease
• condition  acoustic neuroma which is a benign growth that develops on the vestibule cochlear nerve near the inner ear
• multiple sclerosis also causes vertigo

Symptoms

      Vertigo is a symptom, but it can also lead to other symptoms like

• A person having vertigo feels as if their head or the surrounding them is spinning or moving.
• problems in balancing like spinning
• the heaviness of the head with headaches

• the feeling  of motion sickness
• the sensation of nausea and vomiting

• tinnitus-ringing in the ear
• a full feeling in the ear

• abnormal, uncontrolled, jerky  eye movement known as nystagmus, usually from side to side
• Tilting like pulled in one direction
• Symptoms can last a few minutes to a few hours or more and sometime may come and go.

THE BEST HOMEOPATHY MEDICINES FOR VERTIGO ARE:

Cocculus Indicus:

• ·It is given when there is vertigo with a feeling of nausea and vomiting.

• ·Vertigo resulting from cervical spondylitis

• ·Travelling during, motion sicknesses like sitting or riding in a moving car or any other vehicle nausea and vomiting with vertigo this medicine works best

Conium:

• Work well in elderly people suffering from vertigo.

•  Vertigo from lying down, turning sidewise, or during movement of eyes.

• Vertigo from motion in bed

• Motion of the head side either right or left causes vertigo conium is indicated

• Perspiration during vertigo

Pulsatilla:

• Effective remedy for women suffering from vertigo.

• Vertigo is related to or increased by suppressed or delayed menses.

• Vertigo is better by open fresh air.

• It can help prevent the feeling of moving objects and also stops nausea from occurring because of the condition.

• Pulsatilla is the top most natural medicine for Vertigo with ear troubles.

• Pulsatilla is the best remedy if you have vertigo where the ear loses its function or any other condition related to the ear

• The discharges from the ear are thick  and yellow colored

Gelsemium:

• Severe  dizziness with dim vision and heaviness of eyelids with  difficulty in walking with a loss of balance

• it is very effective when vertigo starts from behind your head and spreads all over the head

• The heaviness of the head, especially over the eyes, is a marked symptom for selecting this particular medicine.

• There is some sort of visual disturbance like dim vision or analyzing one object as two (diplopia) may accompany Vertigo.

• There is the complaint of loss of balance while walking, resulting in a tottering gait or staggering.

• Vertigo with thirstless

Belladonna: 

• People tend to fall to the left side or backward.

•  Vertigo can be accompanied by a headache which is better by pressure.

• Belladonna is very effective for Vertigo occurring in a person with Cervical spondylitis along with pain and stiffness in the cervical back. 

• The Vertigo Stooping can bring on an episode of Vertigo.

• Headache is accompanied by vertigo, binding the head gives relief from the headache

Bryonia: 

• Vertigo with the movement of the head or changing position and it improves when the head is in absolute rest. It can also be associated with nausea and vomiting

• It is a remedy that is effective in treating vertigo if it occurs from gastric conditions.

•  Gastric vertigo comes with nausea which can also cause dizziness.

•  It helps you treat vertigo as it gives quick relief after waking up in the morning.

• It  treats discomfort resulting from vertigo when you try to change the sides while sleeping

• Vertigo with a white-coated tongue is a peculiarity of Bryonia Alba.