Worse closing eyes ( Chelidonium, Apis): lying on right side ( Phosphorus worse lying on left).
Vertigo during sleep.
On closing eyes all things turn with him: passes off on opening them.
Vertigo as if moving to and from head.
Vertigo with retching: water comes from mouth.
Better riding in open air : worse back in room.
“As if head were teeming with live things whirling around it.”
Silica patients lack “grit”- “Sand”.
Are worse for cold : head and feet sweat- ailments from suppressed foot-sweat (?foul).
Sulphur [Sulph]
Much troubled with dizziness. When he goes into the open air, or when he stands any length of time, he becomes dizzy.
On rising in the morning his head feels stupid, and on getting on his feet he is dizzy.
Not rested by sleep: “things go round”.
“Takes time to establish an equilibrium.”
Worse from sleep and from standing.
Vertigo lying on back.
After lying a quarter of an hour, whirling vertigo, as if would faint.
Typical Sulphur is the ” ragged philosopher”: unkempt: argumentative.
Agaricus [Agar]
“Vertigo and confusion of mind are mixed up. ”
Vertigo when walking in open air ( Sulph.): reeling : great sensitiveness to cold air.
Objects whirling: tends to fall forward.
Better by quickly turning the head (rev. Conium).
Cannabis indica. [Cann-i]
Vertigo on rising, with stunning pain back of head, and he falls.
Heavy pressure on brain, must stoop.
(Typically) Cann. ind. has exalted sensations; with exaggeration of time and distance.
Sensation of calvarium opening and shutting: as if brain boiling over and lifting cranium like lid of tea-kettle. (Comp. Cocc.).
Cocculus indicus. [Cocc]
Vertigo : things go round: whirl from right to left; with confusion; with nausea.
Whirling vertigo : worse rising from lying.
Nausea to fainting with severe vertigo.
Sick-headache with vertigo and nausea: from riding in carriage, boat, train car.
(Sea-sickness Tabacum)
Head, abdomen chest ” empty and hollow “.
Hot, flushed face.
Extreme aversion to food:nausea from smell of food ( Colchicum, Sepia, Arsenicum ) but with hunger.
Inco-ordination: tremor: prostration.
“Occiput opens and shuts” (Comp. Cann. ind.).
Petroleum [Petr]
Vertigo: in occiput: as if intoxicated: like sea-sickness.
Obliges him to stoop :more violent when standing than sitting (Comp. Pulsatilla). Goes all over him, makes him numb and stiff.
Digitalis [Dig]
Vertigo from cardiac weakness ( Arsenicum, Hydrocy. acid, Camph., Veratrum).
Severe vertigo with very slow pulse.
With anxiety, as if she would faint.
On rising from sitting: limbs weak.
Constant dizziness with ringing in ears.
“As if heart would stop if she moved” ( Gelsemium must move to keep it beating).
Pulse full, irregular, slow and weak; intermits.
Cyclamen [Cycl]
A curious “transparent vertigo”- to coin an expression.
On walking in a.m., or on rising, looking ahead, any object-say a wardrobe-is seen whirling unsteadily, and flickering away to the side (? right side); while all the time, through the whirl, the same object is seen standing solid and immovable. Cyclamen has promptly cured.
Sensation of brain moving within cranium.
Vertigo: objects turn in a circle, or about her, or make a see- saw motion: when walking in open air.
“Visual effects, or vertigo.”.
Baptisia [Bapt]
A rapid septic state.
Stupid : prostrated : looks besotted.
Swimming sensation : worse stooping and noise.
Confusion as if drunk.
Vertigo with paralysis of eyelids
Feels scattered about : can’t get the pieces together ( Pyrog., Petroleum).
Ailanthus [Ail]
Dizzy : face hot; cannot sit up : drowsy but restless and anxious. In malignant scarlet fever, diphtheria, etc. : with stupidity and mottled skin.
