With Reflexologist Nuria Weaver
Home Remedies for Giddiness
Giddiness is a stage of dizziness where it is difficult for an individual to maintain balance and either falls or faints. It is common in humans and everyone feels giddy due to certain reasons but repeated occurrence may prove fatal or is a symptom of any other ailment or disease in the body.
Causes of giddiness are as follows:
- Heredity
- Indigestion and gas formation
- Diseases of ears, when the fluid balance of the ear is disturbed
- Defective eye-sight
- Malfunctioning of the nervous system
- Severe and frequent attacks of hemicranias
- Poor circulation of blood due to which vital fluids fails to reach the brain.
- Sexual problems or sexual incompetence
- Frequent attacks of epilepsy
- Brain tumor
- Fatigue and lack of sleep
- Anemia
- Fever
- Pitta
- Headaches
Symptoms of giddiness are as follows:
- Blurred vision
- Palpitation of heart
- Depression
- Lack of concentration
- Excessive panting and sweating
- Vomiting
- Nausea
- Involuntary eye movements
Home remedies for giddiness are as follows:
- Soak cumin seeds in lemon juice and then dry it. Store it in a bottle. Suck 1 or 2 seeds to get immediate relief from giddiness. This is one of the simplest home remedies for giddiness.
- Ginger forms effective home remedies for giddiness. Chew some ginger root everyday. You can also take 100 mg of ginger extract in capsule form. Drink ginger tea by boiling ginger root in water. Also drink ginger ale to overcome giddiness. While traveling ginger candy is a god aid.
- Mix lemon juice with water and add a pinch of salt and pepper. It is a very good home remedy for giddiness.
- Prepare a paste of 3 tablespoons of wheat grains, 10 almonds and pumpkin seeds and 1 tablespoon f poppy seed. Add this paste in milk and boil. Then add 1 tablespoon of clarified butter. Consume this regularly for few days. It will reduce the problem of giddiness. This is one of the beneficial home remedies for giddiness.
- In a cup of boiled milk add 3 leaves of holy basil. Drink it in night to lessen the occurrence of giddiness. This is the best natural remedy for giddiness.
- Soak 1 tablespoon of gooseberry powder and coriander seeds in water overnight. Mix it with water and drink it in the morning. It will cure giddiness. This is also a very good natural treatment for giddiness.
- Eat gooseberry with sugar to prevent giddiness. You can also eat its morabba to control giddiness.
- To get instant relief from giddiness take pineapple pieces with sugar.
- Take 2 spoons of carom leaves (ajwain) juice everyday. It will help to get rid of giddiness problem.
- Boil Coriander seeds in water. Add sugar candy (mishri) to it. Strain and drink this decoction to get relief from giddiness instantly. This is also one of the successful home remedies for giddiness.
- Drink basil juice with sugar. It will cure giddiness.
- In a glass of water add sugar or jaggery, lemon juice and cardamom powder. Drink this decoction to get instant relief from giddiness. This is also one of the productive home remedies for giddiness.
- You can simply grind a few pods of cardamom along with husk and make a decoction of the powder with jaggery. Take a teaspoonful of this 3 times a day to cure giddiness. This is also one of the efficient home remedies for giddiness.
- One of the easy home remedies for giddiness is to drink a cup of hot water with 2 spoons of lemon juice. It will provide instant relief from giddiness.
Precautions to be followed:
- Avoid sudden movements and jerks to prevent giddiness. While getting out of bed movements should be in phases and slow. Sit for a while and then ground the legs, wait for few minutes and get up.
- Keep your sitting posture straight and keep the spine as straight as possible.
- Sit on the edge of the chair and bed before standing up.
- Avoid tight fitting clothes as they might hinder the flow of blood.
- Avoid smoking, tobacco and alcohol as they increase the volume of blood and the flow is obstructed.
- Avoid staying or going in limited air circulation areas.
- Avoid activities like swimming, driving, climbing ladders, riding, handling electric cords etc.
Diet for giddiness:
Maintain a balanced and healthy diet. To avoid giddiness include good amount of starch and fiber in diet. Some of the sources are potatoes, rice, pasta, bread and cereals. Milk and dairy products are rich in proteins, minerals and calcium. Vegetables and fruits are good sources of vitamins and fibers. Avoid foods that cause gas formation.
Exercise:
- Exercises are valuable in preventing giddiness. Walk on a steep path while focusing on a fixed point.
- Move your head 3 times clockwise and then anti clock wise while standing or sitting. Doing this few times in a day will improve the flow of blood to the brain and avoid giddiness.
- 'Pranayam' or breathing exercise is very useful in curing giddiness as it assures blood flow to the vital organs of the body. Yogic postures helped a lot in few cases.
Follow the home remedies for giddiness to get rid of the problem naturally. Also follow the diet as it is vital in curing the disease along with do exercises and yoga. Take the precautions to avoid giddiness. Practice the safe and side effects free home remedies and you will find it better than surgery.
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