Vertigo is a sensation of spinning. The person will report that either the world seems to be spinning or he, himself, is spinning. A spinning sensation, therefore, is common to vertigo. It is difficult to prescribe on common symptoms as there are over six hundred homeopathic medicines that can cure vertigo. The trick, then, is to find one homeopathic medicine that closely corresponds to the person suffering from vertigo. To do so requires careful questioning of the patient and a detailed knowledge of the various homeopathic medicines.
True vertigo is not the same as dizziness which is a feeling of light-headedness or a faint feeling. Dizziness can occur from an emotional upset such as the sight of blood, from standing up too quickly, or from an illness such as the flu. Vertigo is significantly worse than dizziness and people with vertigo cannot walk or drive. It is sometimes referred to as Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo.
The homeopath does not treat vertigo per se, but instead pays attention to the symptoms accompanying the vertigo. As the accompanying symptoms will vary from one case of vertigo to the next, so will the curative homeopathic medicine vary.
A fifty-two year old woman caught cold and within three days developed debilitating vertigo. She had nausea with the vertigo. The vertigo was worse looking at something moving. Nausea with vertigo is common, vertigo worse when looking at a moving object is more unusual. As the mental state is often the key to a successful prescription, I asked about stress. It turned out her daughter had given birth to a baby girl, her first granddaughter, a month earlier. Her daughter was behaving irresponsibly, going out at night with her girlfriends to drink beer and coming in late. Other evenings, she took the small baby with her when she left to hang out with her friends. My patient was worried more for her granddaughter than her daughter. One night, her daughter came in after 1 a.m. and she only got three and a half hours of sleep. Two days later the vertigo began.
