What does vertigo feel like?
According to the patient’s description, when the onset of vertigo occurs, the whole person feels spinning, unstable, staggering, and even falls, accompanied by panic, shortness of breath, even sweating, nausea and vomiting, and the symptoms will gradually decrease after resting for a period of time. consciousness is still awake.
What is the root cause of vertigo?
Western medicine is the mainstream of modern medicine, so let’s look at what causes vertigo from the perspective of Western medicine. First of all, let’s explain the question: When you go to a Western medical hospital, which department do you go to? The alternative answers are: cardiology, ENT, ophthalmology, neurology, orthopedics. Dr. Li seriously tells you that vertigo is related to the above departments, but under normal circumstances, especially for the first consultation, you should go to the neurology department to see, so the correct answer is neurology, did you answer correctly?
What causes vertigo?
Simply put, there is something wrong with the brain. Where does the problem occur? According to the location of the lesion, vertigo is divided into central vertigo and peripheral vertigo. Central vertigo is better understood as the central nervous system, that is, the brain, whether it is the brain, cerebellum or brain stem. So what is peripheral vertigo? It is also easy to understand, it is a lesion in a system other than the brain, such as the vestibular system in the ear, cardiovascular lesions, or cervical spine disease2.
What are the diseases that cause vertigo?
Commonly, otoliths, Meniere’s syndrome, neurosis, cranial tumors, eye lesions (wearing inappropriate nearsighted glasses can make you dizzy, has anyone experienced this?), trauma, hypertension, anemia, neurasthenia, etc. Oh yes, there is another key disease: cervical spondylosis, all of which can cause vertigo. It should be noted that vertigo is not a disease, but a symptom manifestation of many diseases. Patients can come to the doctor because they feel dizzy, and it is the doctor’s responsibility to find the cause of vertigo and treat it.
The understanding of vertigo in Western medicine, or the understanding of disease in Western medicine, is explained more from the anatomical level, and as long as you have some anatomical basis, it is better to understand this disease, but of course, vertigo is often not caused by a single factor, and analyzing the specific cause is a complex process.
After talking about Western medicine, let’s see how Chinese medicine looks at vertigo. The first thing to say is that vertigo is not only a symptom but also a disease name in the TCM system, so there are names for vertigo and vertigo disease, that is, vertigo can exist as a separate disease. Let’s first look at the classical explanation of vertigo in Chinese medicine.
”All winds that drop vertigo belong to the liver” – Su Wen
”Vertigo is caused by upper deficiency” – Ling Shu
No phlegm does not do vertigo – Zhu Danxi
From the above, we extract three words: “liver”, “deficiency” and “phlegm”, which are the basis for the identification and treatment of vertigo in Chinese medicine.
1, liver Yang on the hyperactive: an example to illustrate it, you borrow a friend 200,000 to buy stocks, hard work for a month, all day to stare at the plate, people are sitting fat, from 200,000 up to 250,000, the heart is quite happy, think about it is worth. The next week, the stock market plummeted, a plunge, all back again, not only all back, the capital also lost in, this is good, they did not earn money, even the borrowed money is not enough to pay back, anxious ah, upset, insomnia, anxiety, dizziness ……
2, kidney essence deficiency: kidney for the innate essence, capital deficiency, do what is not the bottom, or capital depletion too fast, the bottom will be worn out, in the end a key point: kidney deficiency. What will be the case of kidney deficiency? Congenital deficiency, old age, long illness, room labor (see what Odom dizzy into)
3, blood deficiency: said recently work is very busy, one day at work, busy noon meal did not have time to eat, the afternoon meeting, the boss has been leading the discussion until 10 p.m. to remember that it is time to eat dinner, so you stretch a lazy back, stand up and ready to eat, suddenly feel the sky spinning, wow, and a lot of twinkling little stars, uh, this is a deficiency of blood caused by vertigo (hunger fainting).
4, phlegm and dampness in the obstruction: for example, you won the lottery, the grand prize of 10 million ah, how to spend it? Anyway, do not go back to work to serve the gang of masters, they are masters! Buy a bucket of hairy crabs steamed, break open only eat crab paste crab yellow, we have money! Invite guests, drink, sing, regardless of his day and night na, want to eat, want to drink, want to do what you want to do. One morning when I got up, I found that I was a little dizzy and flabby, and when I brushed my teeth, I saw that my tongue was white and thick and greasy, and this is the phlegm-dampness type of dizziness caused by poor diet and fat, sweet and greasy.
The causes of dizziness in Chinese and Western medicine are finished. Are we really done? No, there is another type of dizziness to focus on: cervical spondylosis. If you go to a neurology clinic, they will argue vertigo from the vestibular perspective or consider whether it is caused by hypertension or cerebrovascular disease; if you go to a Chinese medicine clinic, the old Chinese doctor will say something like liver, kidney, gas, blood, phlegm, dampness, etc., take a pulse and look at the tongue and prescribe a bunch of Chinese medicine.
Whether it’s an internist or a patient, don’t ignore the other big factor of vertigo: cervical spondylosis. If you ignore the factor of cervical spondylosis causing vertigo, after taking a lot of medicine, one day you blindly bumped into a cervical spondylosis doctor, reluctantly took an X-ray, and then after seeing your own distorted cervical spine structure, you took a deep breath of cold air, the root cause was here! After several cervical spine correction, years of old problems gradually recede, you find that the neck is not sore, eyes are not blurred, appetite is good, the key dizziness no longer. Rebirth is so perfect, the world is so fresh!