In the inquiry for making a diagnosis, we ask about affectations in the head. The head can hurt or have Vertigo and dizziness. The details of symptoms help us identify the cause.

Head areas

• Yang Ming: frontal area and face.
• Tai Yang: upper and posterior area
• Shao Yang: lateral zone, temporal
• Eyes and vertex belong to Jue Yin and Shao Yang

Headache

• By wind: aversion to wind
• By cold: chills
• By dampness: sensation of heaviness in the head
• By fire: tooth pain
• By heat: nervousness
• By food: oppression of the chest, digestive disorder, abdominal distension
• By alcohol: reflux of Qi
• By anger: reflux of Qi and Xue to the head
• By interior wind: escape of yang, high blood pressure, haemorrhage
• Wind of the head: chronic headache, migraine. People who by constitution have phlegm and fire. It is a pain with sensation of heat, when there is a draft or interior emotion. In addition to headache there is vomiting and nausea.

GV-16; GB-20 are very important wind points.

See extended topic and treatments in: Headache

Vertigo, dizziness

See extended topic and treatments in: Vertigo

By interior wind

Normally there is a Rising of Liver-Yang by Kidney-Yin deficiency. Rise in blood pressure, vertigo, sensation of instability when walking, as if on a boat. There can also be belching, hiccup, nausea, vomiting.

By heat in Shao Yang

Normally by wind invasion that blocks the Shao Yang layer (the Gall Bladder Channel) and cannot descend. Vertigo, nausea (without vomiting), loss of balance, eyes move. Younger people. It comes seasonally and disappears. GB-41, TE-5, wind points and descend yang ming

By Qi-Xue deficiency

Dizziness on changing position, on rising. Blurred vision, anaemia, paleness. It can be by haemorrhage, diarrhea, poor diet... The blood does not arrive to nourish the head. (Blood Deficiency). Treat the cause of the deficiency. Also moxa GV-20 and ST-36

Dizziness and heavy head

Somnolence and tiredness especially after eating. Pure Yang cannot rise, dampness in the head. Tonify Kidney and Spleen, descend Yang Ming layer and GV-20

Balance problem

Related to problems in the cerebellum. Walks as if about to fall. We use Yin Stepping Vessel and Yang Stepping Vessel.

Vertigo by anxiety

Dizziness, anguish, loss of appetite, nausea. Gall Bladder-Qi deficiency with Liver-Qi stagnation due to an emotional problem. Heat is generated. In the head it affects balance, in the mouth it gives bitter taste and in the chest tachycardia, anguish, shortness of breath and cough. GB-41, GB-43, LR-14, PC-5, PC-6, LU-9