-IBIS-1.5.0-
tx
nervous system
vertigo/dizziness
homeopathy

remedy differential

Aconitum napellus:
on rising up from lying; from congestion as in the sun, on stooping; anxiety and restlessness
Agaricus muscarius: vertigo and confusion of mind are mixed up; walking in open air; > quickly turning the head
Ailanthus glandulosa: dizzy, face hot, cannot sit up; drowsy but restless and anxious; in malignant scarlet fever, diphtheria
Apis mellifica: on closing eyes; < sitting, lying
Argentum metallicum: giddiness looking at running water
Argentum nitricum: looking at high buildings
Baptisia: rapid septic state; swimming sensation; confusion as drunk; vertigo with paralysis of eyelids; feels scattered
Belladonna: suddenness and violence; with pulsations in the head, dilated pupils, nausea; as if bed bounced him up and down; as if sinking with or through a bed
Bryonia: rising from a seat or from lying; < least motion; sinking with or through a bed
Camphora bromata: feels is journeying in one direction when actually moving in the opposite direction
Cannabis indica: on rising, with stunning pain back of head; exalted sensation with exaggeration of time and distance
Chelidonium: with bilious vomiting; on closing eyes; as if everything turned in a circle; typical pain under right scapula; desires hot milk
Cinchona: after loss of blood; head tends to sink backwards, < moving and walking, > lying down
Cocculus indicus: things go round; whirl from right to left with confusion, nausea; < rising from lying; general sensation of empty and hollow; extreme aversion to food
Conium maculatum: turning or moving head, turning eyes, as if turning in a circle; if in bed, as if bed turned in a circle; when rising from a seat, watching moving objects; sweats day and night on closing eyes
Cyclamen: transparent vertigo on waking or on riding, e.g. lamp seen whirling unsteadily and flickering away to the side while all the time, through the whirl, the lamp is seen standing solid and immovable; sensation as if brain moving within cranium
Digitalis: from cardiac weakness; severe vertigo with very slow pulse; constant dizziness with ringing in the ears
Dulcamara: momentary vertigo with darkness before eyes; at noon, before eating, while walking, giddy as if all objects remained standing before him
Ferrum metallicum: face fiery red; vertigo < rising from lying or sitting
Gelsemium: head feels light and large with vertigo; dizziness with blurring of vision, < smoking; feels intoxicated when trying to move; sensation of falling
Lycopodium: everything turning around with nausea; vertigo while driving, in hot room
Natrum carbonicum: quick onset, with "weak and sickly feeling" and headache due to sunstroke; in susceptible persons exposure to sunlight is adequate cause for vertigo
Natrum muriaticum: with flickering before the eyes; tends to fall forward
Natrum sulphuricum: sudden onset due to any blow to the head or coccyx; or, slow onset with "congested feeling in the head" due to malaria or malaria-like response to an epidemic infection
Nux vomica: rising from seat or bed or raising head, vanishing of sight and hearing; objects seem to move around; from digestive disturbance
Onosmodium virginianum: fears to look down; headache < dark
Opium: compelled to lie down, as if all went round in a circle with him; from injury to head after fright; as if flying or hovering in the air
Petroleum: in occiput; obliges him to stoop; more violent when standing than sitting
Phosphorus: from looking upwards, downwards; chair seems to rise with him; sensation as if would fall forwards, < lying on left side
Pulsatilla: violent vertigo-like intoxication; as if one had turned around in a circle for a long time, with nausea; < sitting, > walking in open air
Salicylicum acidum: auditory nerve vertigo (Meniere's disease); tends to fall to left while surrounding objects seem falling to right
Sanguinaria canadensis: cannot turn quickly without fear of falling; nausea and headache then vomiting as if heavy substance in stomach; looking up, lying down, during sleep; rush of blood to the head, feels sick and faint, < cold weather
Secale cornutum: constantly increasing; inability to stand upright; head, esp. occiput feels light
Silicea: creeping up spine into head; tends to fall forward; < closing eyes; vertigo during sleep
Sulphur: dizziness when going into open air or when standing; < sleep, standing
Tabacum: excessive heaviness of head; deathlike paleness of face; weakness to loss of consciousness, > open air and vomiting

Complex Homeopathy:
Vertigoheel: complex remedy containing Cocculus 4X, Conium 3X, Ambra grisea 6X, Petroleum 8X. Specific for vertigo, dizziness and nausea. Studies have found that Vertigoheel activates the vestibular regulatory systems located in the brainstem area. Computer-processed brain mapping recordings indicate an increase in activity in the neuropathways which connect the vestibulo-pathways with the corpora quadrigemina. (Clause, C.F. Biological Therapy, 5(1)1-24, 1987 and 5(2)25-49, 1987; Claussen, C.F., et al. Arzneimittel-Forschung (Drug Research), 34(II), 12, 1791-1798, 1984.) A more recent double-blind clinical trial found Vertigoheel at least as effective as Betahistine. (Weiser, M., Stroesser, W, Klein, P, et al. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1998:124:879-885)


footnotes

Clause, C.F. Treatment of the syndrome of the slowed down brainstem. Biological Therapy, 5(1)1-24, 1987 and 5(2)25-49, 1987.

Claussen, C.F., et al. Clinicoexperimental study and equilibrimetric measurements assessing the therapeutic efficacy of a homeopathic drug in vertigo and nausea cases. Arzneimittel-Forschung (Drug Research), 34(II), 12, 1791-1798, 1984.

Weiser, M., Stroesser, W, Klein, P, et al. Homeopathic versus conventional treatment of vertigo. A Randomized double-blind controlled clinical trial. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1998:124:879-885