Unlike popular belief, vertigo is not a disease, but a symptom for underlying medical conditions. Vertigo is used to describe that spinning or whirling sensation that happens when a person’s equilibrium or balance is disturbed. When there is a sensation of movement, this is referred to as Subjective Vertigo, and when the movement is perceived to occur from the surroundings, it is called as Objective Vertigo.

Vertigo happens when a person is having a problem with his or her posterior semicircular canals located in the inner ear. This is medically called as the vestibular labyrinth of the ear, and thus, the term labyrinthine is born. Someone who suffers from vertigo feels or thinks that everything is moving or spinning, making that person lose balance and be nauseous. The body’s vestibular system is the one responsible in keeping the objects we see in focus, even when the body moves. When your head moves, signals are sent to the labyrinth, the apparatus in your inner ear filled with fluids. The movement data is then transferred to the vestibular nerves, which carries the signal to your brainstem and cerebellum. With vertigo, the transfer of signal is displaced, causing dizziness spells in many adults – most specially women.

What Causes Vertigo?

There are many common causes for having a balance disorder, and this can be:

1. Calcium carbonate crystals floating free inside your inner ear
2. Poor Vision
3. Head Injuries
4. Heart Disease
5. Ear Infection
6. Brain Tumor
7. Thyroid Disease
8. Calcium Deficiency
9. Motion Sickness
10. Anemia
11. Lack of Sufficient Oxygen Supply to the Brain
12. High Cholesterol Levels
13. High Blood Pressure
14. Diabetes

Are There Natural Cures to Vertigo?

Normally, your doctor will prescribe you to take anti-Vertigo pills to help reduce the spinning sensation and make you standing on your two feet without falling over. There are natural remedies that you can try to help reduce your risk to Vertigo, namely:

1. Loving your Ginkgo Biloba herb, which is famous in Chinese traditional medicine to be a potent vertigo cure. This Chinese herb helps blood flow to your brain, making that dizzy sensation subside.

2. Keep yourself hydrated with water or you may soak a tablespoon of coriander seeds in your glass, fill it with water, leave it overnight, drain and drink. Some folks mix black pepper, lemon juice, and salt with their pure water.

3. Avoid doing jerky movements like bending your neck while looking up, playing virtual games, or riding amusement park dare-devil rides that can trigger a vertigo attack.

4. Stay focused when you are having a vertigo and if possible, keep focusing on a stationary object or a fixed point until your brain adjusts to the reality that nothing around you is really moving.

5. Have a healthy diet that is low in sodium and sugar. Make sure you get your essential vitamins and minerals. If you are doing salads, add lemon peel to boost that vertigo-fighting meal.

6. You can do balance exercises by using the Brandt-Daroff technique, or you can simply stand with arms at your side and your feet together, while holding this post for thirty seconds. You can also be in this standing position while you slowly move your head up and down, left and right. You can keep track of your walking exercise just to see how far you have walked and how you feel while walking. This can help you trace your dizziness spells.

7. For those with neck trauma, you may try chiropractic therapies that will help align the vertebrae in your neck, which can help reduce your vertigo attacks.

8. You can also do simple breathing techniques and meditation during a vertigo attack, until the dizzy feeling subsides.

9. Nothing beats a good night’s sleep and rest in order to make sure you have lesser vertigo attacks during the day.

Remember that you are the master of your own body and don’t let a dizziness spell control you… or make you panic in the process. By learning the art of mind control, you can slowly take charge of your life and live a healthy lifestyle that revolves in healthy, natural choices – for life. You are the key to your very own healing and although vertigo can be truly bothersome, it is something that you can control and prevent. Take Control of Your Symptoms!

Brandt-Daroff Exercise for Vertigo: