Dizziness
Feeling lightheaded or off balance, or that everything is spinning around you, can have many causes including low blood pressure, anemia, stress, fatigue, a low blood sugar or a nutritional deficiency of iron (in anemia), or potassium.
It may be accompanied by sweating, nausea or fainting. Often it can help just to sit down with your head between your knees and breathe deeply.
Seek your doctor’s advice about recurrent, severe or prolonged spells of dizziness.
Dietary Advice For Dizziness
A balanced diet of fresh wholefoods, supplemented with a high-potency multivitamin and mineral complex, can help protect against this type of dizziness. If the problem is caused by low blood pressure and poor circulation, it can help to take one-a-day ginger capsules. To protect against a low blood sugar, eat small, regular meals of wholegrain cereals, fruit and vegetables, eat fewer cakes, biscuits and other refined foods, and drink fewer alcoholic and sweetened drinks.
Complementary Remedies For Dizziness
Essential oils that can help a low blood pressure and a sluggish circulation include coriander, geranium, ginger, pine and rosemary. Add 6 drops of one or more to a bath and follow with a brisk massage, particularly to the arms, legs and torso. Alternatively, make a massage blend using 2 drops ginger, 4 drops coriander, 4 drops geranium, in 25 ml grapeseed or sweet almond oil. The herbs ginkgo biloba and gotu kola may help prevent dizziness.
Recommended Ready Made Natural Remedies For Dizziness
- VertiFree – Homeopathic remedy that relieves dizziness and nausea, and supports inner ear balance
