The mild case of dizziness can be relived by closing one’s eyes, while the serious case has an illusion of bodily movement with rotator sensation like sitting in a sailing boat or moving car, and even accompanied by nausea, vomiting and sweating.
• Hyperactivity of the liver yang. The liver is analogized as wind and wood, characterized by movement and ascending, over contemplation, anxiety, depression, or anger can damage the liver yin, resulting in hyperactivity of the liver yang. Dizziness occurs when the liver is lacking in nourishment, which leads to hyperactivity of liver yang. In both situations there is a deficiency in the lower but excess in the upper part of the body.
• Deficiency of qi and blood. The heart and spleen are damaged by overwork and over contemplation in the case of a weak constitution after disease. The damaged spleen fails to produce qi and blood, leading to deficiency. In the case that the brain is poorly nourished by qi and blood, dizziness occurs.
• Interior retention of phlegm dampness. In a person with generally abundant phlegm dampness, irregular food intake and overwork damage the stomach and the spleen, impairing their function in transportation and transformation and leading to production of dampness and phlegm. Then the stagnant phlegm and qi may impede the ascending of clear yang and the descending of turbid yin, and thus dizziness occurs.
Dizziness may be explained as derangement of the equilibrium of the senses in modern medicine. Clinically, the symptom is mostly seen in hypertension, arteriosclerosis, neurosis and otogenic disease. Dizziness can be treated with acupuncture and herbs.
For more information, please contact Dr. Jeon at Jun’s Acupuncture Clinic at
661-799-7369.