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What is Vestibular Neuritis?
Vestibular neuritis is an inner ear disorder in which a person feels vertigo (feeling as if a person himself or the environment is moving), dizziness, and balance issues. It arises from the inflammation of the vestibular nerve (a nerve in the ear which is responsible for sending information from the inner ear to the brain about balance). In case this nerve is inflamed, then the transmitting of this information is interrupted, which results in dizziness and disorientation.
What is the reason behind it?
Most of the time, it results from a viral infection. The viral infections that can lead to it mainly include chickenpox, mumps, measles, herpes zoster, influenza, rubella, and mononucleosis. It can also result from a bacteriaal infection, but its chances to cause it are very rare.
What are the symptoms?
The symptoms of it majorly include vertigo, dizziness, and balance difficulties. Other symptoms that tend to appear with it are nausea, vomiting, and difficulty in concentration.
Homeopathic Treatment for Vestibular Neuritis
Homeopathic medicines are very helpful in treating cases of vestibular neuritis. These medicines are useful to reduce the inflammation of the vestibular nerve and relieve its symptoms. The symptoms that can be managed quite effectively with these medicines include vertigo, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and balance difficulties. These medicines are prepared from naturally occurring substances and hence are very safe to use without any sort of side effects. The top-grade homeopathic medicines indicated symptomatically to treat vestibular neuritis includes Conium, Gelsemium, Cocculus Indicus, Petroleum, Natrum Mur, Belladonna, Phosphorus, and Silicea.
Homeopathic Medicines for Vestibular Neuritis
1. Conium – Top listed to manage vertigo
Homeopathic medicine Conium is prepared from a plant named Conium Maculatum. Fresh plant when in flower is used to make homeopathic preparation. The natural order of this plant is Umbelliferae. It is highly effective for managing vertigo. Persons needing it feels as if everything is turning in a circle. They usually complain of worsening of vertigo when they turn the head. In order to prevent it, they desire to keep the head perfectly still. Sometimes they also feel vertigo comes on while they stoop. Apart from this, they may feel vertigo when rising from a seat and also when walking. Along with vertigo, they have a tendency to fall also.
2. Gelsemium – To manage dizziness, vertigo, and loss of balance
Gelsemium is a natural homeopathic medicine prepared from bark of the root of a plant named as Gelsemium Sempervirens. This plant is commonly known by the name of yellow jasmine. This plant belongs to the family Loganiaceae. It is very useful to manage dizziness, vertigo, and loss of balance. The persons needing it feels that vertigo arise when they suddenly do any of the head movement. Along with this, they feel heaviness in the head. They also have issues of imbalance while walking with fear of falling.
3. Cocculus Indicus – To relieve nausea, vomiting attending vertigo
Homeopathic medicine Cocculus Indicus is prepared from powdered seeds of a plant known as Indian Cockle. It belongs to family Menispermaceae. Cocculus Indicus is helpful in relieving nausea, vomiting attending vertigo attacks. Persons needing it feel vertigo on rising from lying position. They feel objects revolving around them. They fear to fall during vertigo episodes. Their face and head feel hot during vertigo. They also feel pressure in the forehead. Sometimes they fall down with vertigo.
4. Petroleum – To manage nausea with vertigo
Petroleum is another well-indicated medicine for managing nausea with vertigo. It is used when vertigo is worse on stooping, standing, and rising from lying position. There appears whirling sensation in the head. Lying relieves vertigo. With vertigo, there is fear of falling forward. Nausea and vomiting is present above. Face gets pale with this.
5. Natrum Mur – For vertigo, nausea, and vomiting
Like the above two medicines, Natrum Mur is also indicated to manage a complaint of vertigo with nausea and vomiting. Persons needing it feels as if they are turning in a circle. They complain of an increase in vertigo on looking upwards and when rising from a seat or from a lying position. They somewhat feel better by walking in the open air.
6. Belladonna – For managing vertigo
Homeopathic medicine Belladonna is prepared from deadly plant nightshade. The family of this plant is Solanaceae. It is also given to relieve vertigo episodes. Persons needing it feels as if surrounding objects are turning in a circle. They feel vertigo gets worse from any of the body movements. They also feel vertigo appears while walking, stooping when rising after stooping, lying, turning in bed, and from any change of position.
7. Phosphorus – For vertigo and balance issues
Phosphorus is valuable for managing vertigo and balance issues. It is used in persons who get vertigo on head movement, mainly when they looking up and down. Along with this, there is difficulty in maintaining balance while walking. Sometimes they get nausea after vertigo. In many persons falling with vertigo is there.
8. Silicea – For vertigo with the sensation of falling down
Silicea is the next very significant medicine used for managing vertigo where persons feel as if they would fall down either in a forward or backward direction. In them, vertigo usually gets worse from motion. Sometimes they get vertigo from looking upwards. In many persons needing it, nausea is complained along with vertigo attacks.
Hello, I developed chronic vertigo 7 yrs ago while weaning off of 3 mg of klonopin over 4 mons time. I remember the day it started I was in severe withdrawals and I developed tinnitus in my right ear the same day that has not stopped since then. The vertigo only happens now when the barometric pressure changes. I have not had any Dr.s give me any answers or really listen to me about this. I also get the dizziness when around fluorescent or led lights. I have chiari 1 malformation as well as a neck fusion from skull to c3. Is there a remedy that would help?
Dear Dr. Sharma,
Thanks for providing an opportunity to write you. Dr. Sharma, my wife, has developed an inner ear disorder causing her body imbalance. It has been found that it is due to thickening of the vestibular nerve after an infection. Earlier, she had some vertigo problems, but that subsided after allopathy treatments. At present, she is having a body imbalance only. Should she go for Gelsemium or some other medicine(s)? I will wait for your valuable advice.
Best regards,
Prof. (Dr.) S. S. Thakur
Hello, I’m 53 and have been perfectly healthy most my life, I woke up 3 months ago with bad brain fog and bad balance disorder, it was like my equilibrium turned off. I went to the ER, they checked my heart and did a CAT scan and everything was normal. I still have the balance problems and a little brain fog. I don’t want to be like this anymore.
Hello, I am ajay Diarsa from India , having vertigo and imbalance issues since 2016. Fluctuates quite significantly. For 5 – 6 months disappears and then reoccur. Is there any way out. Finding it very difficult to carry out daily lives.
I broke a bone in my middle ear in 1992. I had vestibular problems for about five years. Then they seemed to go away. Now I am having recurring vestibular attacks, mostly at night, that include not only dizziness and loss of balance, but brain fog. Is there anything that can be done homeopathically? I am prone to bone sour from other bones I have broken and wonder if this could be the problem. If so, can anything be done?
I have tinnitus from inflammation of vestibular nerve after Covid. I’m a new mother with a two week old baby and the tinnitus keeps me from sleeping. Is thr a homeopathic medicine that can help reduce the tinnitus and inflammation of the vestibular cochlear nerve?
I have tinnitus from inflammation of vestibular nerve after Covid also.
What would you recommend to stop the nerve from signaling the brain which causes instant.
vestibular nerve tinnitus after Covid also.
What would you recommend to stop the nerve from signaling the brain which causes instant.
Hi Dr Sharma , I have been suffering from vestibular neuritis for several months now … a physiotherapist put googles on me and said the nerve is very inflamed causing me to feel like I am swaying and my eyes feel like they are moving … I saw an ent doctor and he said this is very common and to keep doing exercises but it doesn’t seem to be improving… I feel I need to heal the nerve so I can stop this horrible feeling of swaying and dizziness … is there a homeopath solution to help heal my ear nerve? Please help as it is causing me great stress and anxiety on a daily basis… thank you!
I have tinnitus from inflammation of vestibular nerve after Covid. I’m a new mother with a two week old baby and the tinnitus keeps me from sleeping. Is thr a homeopathic medicine that can help reduce the tinnitus and inflammation of the vestibular cochlear nerve?
Hi sir, i am having an issue, with my eyes, which gets blurred during evening only.
I uses eye lubrication drops, thinking eye dryness, but do not see any improvement
And to my observation if i use ear phones for some time say more then 10 mins, then the blurred ness starts.
If i avoids then the eye blurred ness decreases
Need suggestion on this.
Raja VVS (42 years old)
Dr Sharma sir, I have been suffering from imbalance while standing, climbing stairs, using downward stairs without railing, I can’t raise my head, see either side while walking and feel falling down, can’t see upwards while on walk. I feel spinning feeling while riding a pillion rider even. I can’t sit anywhere where there is no hand rest. I have been on homeo medicine for paralytic stroke of 2015. Kindly guide me as my life came to halt for the last seven years.
My child 4 yrs old has deafness in both ears after falling severly I’ll at the age of two … He had vomits and diarrhea at that time. Now he is suffering from balance issue . He falls back suddenly while sitting also can’t see upward as he falls back and forth . He has uncontrollable movements in his body . What kind of medicine does he need to improve his balance
My child 4 yrs old has deafness in both ears after falling severly I’ll at the age of two … He had vomits and diarrhea at that time. Now he is suffering from balance issue . He falls back suddenly while sitting also can’t see upward as he falls back and forth . He has uncontrollable movements in his body . What kind of medicine does he need to improve his balance
Hi
I currently had a vertigo attack 2 months ago, I was bending slightly forward to wipe something off my leg and the whole room started spinning. Went to the emergency room they diagnosed me with BPPV and told me to do exercises. I did the exercises a few times however they made me super dizzy so I waited to go to physical therapy which was 3 weeks later and she did the Epley maneuvers on me and said that the BPPV must have cleared because I no longer got the spins. However since then I have had MDDS, rocking on a boat sensation, my balance is still slightly off I get dizzy if I put my head slightly forward. My left ear always feels full like maybe the ear nerve is irritated causing the dizziness / vertigo. Don’t really have a specific diagnosis but my neurologist thinks it could be vestibular migraines.
Is there any homeopathic medicine that can help with the MDDS/slight dizziness vertigo and ear pressure as well as vestibular migraine? I do not have head pain like a regular migraine I just have these other symptoms…
Please let me know if there’s any homeopathic remedies that could help with this. Thank you Karen
I’m in California USA
Hi Dr. Sharma,
My wife complains of the sensation of water in her ear, this is consistent everyday along with a consistent headache that occurs everyday. Her gait is very shortened as if she is walking on her tippy toes.
What if any holistic remedy will work for her? Her doctor has diagnosed her issue as vestibular.
Thank you very much for listening.
I await your answer.
Hi Dr Sharma
I recently have been diagnosed with vestibular neuritis but not advised of any meds or vitamins to take. I was advised to get an ENG, an MRI with contrast and without; a Transcranial ultrasound, An MRA, AND an EEG. Dr does not suspect brain tumor. Can you tell me How will all of these tests help? Do you also recommend turmeric ?
Thank you
Bonnie
Hi,
My mother is 55 years old and she was diagnosed with Vestibular neuritis 5 years ago. She struggles with it daily, has appointments for maneuvers, takes ashwagandha, fish oil, vitamin b complex, and gingko bilbao religiously but nothing seems to stop it. She drinks ginger tea and has fresh turmeric and ginger every night, extremely healthy diet but nothing works. Can you please suggest something that we may be missing thanks
Hello Dr Sharma. Your pages are so very helpful, thank you. Could you please advise which of the above might be most helpful for a case of vestibular nueritis, where vertigo is quite severe? The patient is a 27 yr old male of generally good health. Slim and fit, high-pressure job and most likely a constitutional type of Nux vom. The attack came on suddenly, with severe vomiting, which has now receded. He has improved overnight with intense “shock” dosing of Arnica Plus, but I feel a more targeted treatment would be benefical. Kind regards Gina
Dear Dr. Sharia,
Pleased to read that my condition can be treated with homeopathy. In addition to co morbiditiex I am suffering dizziness due to Vestibular Neuritis. I thought this can only be treated by a Physiotherapist specialist .How do I proceed further.?
I have vestibular neuritis. If I understand this article correctly, the remedies manage the symptoms? Will I need to take a remedy forever?
High noise in myboth ear what is treatment in homeopathic give one composition name