Category: Brain, Nerves & Sleep

Here is an update on my healing Journey for Vertigo.  Understanding what is causing the Vertigo has been very helpful in discovering how to support and clear the issue. 

The cause for me is: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) which is the most common cause of vertigo, and it’s often caused by calcium crystals that detach from their normal location in the inner ear. These crystals can then move into the semicircular canals, which sense head rotation, causing the canals to send the wrong signals to the brain. This confuses the brain, leading to the vertigo symptoms that include:

• A spinning sensation when the head position changes
• Falling out of bed or losing balance when getting up
• Falling when tilting the head back or forward while walking
• Nausea and vomiting 

There are several positional exercises you can do that are said to be helpful in clearing the symptoms from Vertigo.  After trying them and not finding them to be as effective as the herbal supports or topical application we will not discuss them in this article.  Members have shared their experiences; some have found them to be very effective.  My best suggestion is to try them for relief as some have said they are helpful, detailed instructions can be found on Youtube.

Herbal Supports that have proved very helpful in stopping the symptoms are:

Brain Food formula: 1 to 2 tsp. in a cup of hot water.  I add a little almond milk to my teas. 

NF Formula: ½ tsp in with the brain Formula. 

Cayenne: 1 tsp.  This I add to make what I like to call my Hot Lemonade.

• 1 tsp Cayenne
  • 1 Tablespoon Apple Cider vinegar
  • Lemon Juice to taste
  • Maple Syrup or Honey to taste.
  • 16 to 32 ounces of cool  or cold water 

The Cayenne can be taken in a few swallows of water or can be added to the Hot Lemonade.

Topically to aid in clearing the crystals I have found using the Charcoal/Flax Poultices over both ears to be really effective.  Three applications seems to be the key. 

Apply the Poultices over both ears for three hours three times.  My experience has been the symptoms have ended after the third application.  Unfortunately every time I have to visit the dentist the issue begins again. My Dentist appointments are on Thursday afternoon, each time it has taken until Saturday afternoon for the vertigo to start up again.  After my last visit we began applying the poultices as a preventive on Thursday night and Friday during the day.  There was only a very mild bit of vertigo on Saturday afternoon.  It seems to have worked very well as a preventive.  I still have two more visits to the Dentist before all this work is done.  I’m not looking forward to them but after the excellent results after this last visit it appears we have a very good game plan to deal with the issue.

The Poultices is held in place with two wide sweat bands.

Learning something new is always a blessing, the part I wish I could skip is the discomfort that often precedes the acquiring of the knowledge.  Several weeks ago I bit down on a date seed and broke my tooth.  Not a lot of pain or discomfort at this point.  I was able to get right into the dentist who referred me to an oral surgeon and was told the earliest available appointment was sometime in March.  To shorten this part of the testimony I will say,  I found a great dentist who does it all.  The tooth was pulled, it came out in four parts, not fun. 

Onto the learning something new part.  I developed a severe case of vertigo.  My husband did a little research online and discovered it is common to develop vertigo after oral surgery.  Something about messing with nerves in your head.  Not being new to this issue I was using Cayenne to clear the woozy head spinning, nausea, feeling awful, issues.  It just was not working well at all. 

If it had only been a little light headedness I could have gotten thought somehow but the Vertigo was also affecting my blood pressure.  Those spikes were serious.  My husband and I prayed asking the Lord for answers.  I finally decided to call the paramedics, the blood pressure had to be addressed.   

Now I can share how well the Lord answers prayers.

The two men who arrived had been working as paramedics for a long time.  The one truly understood my aversion to doctors and hospitals.  He had some understanding of herbs and believed in their power.  Understanding that I had been using the cayenne without effect he suggested I use herbs that work to dilate the blood vessels.  What herb is best for this, he asked.  Ginkgo biloba, of course, was my answer.  With that information in mind I took a full teaspoon of the Brain Formula, which is mostly Ginkgo.  Everything cleared in a matter of minutes.  The Father will answer us when we call for help.  He sent someone with the answers I needed in a way I never expected.

So here is what I have learned this past week.

Using any source of caffein will bring on vertigo.  No Coffee, Green or black Tea, or Chocolate as they are high in Caffein which is a vessel constrictor. 

Using the Brain formula & Cayenne have completely cleared the symptoms of vertigo.  My dose has been 1 teaspoon two or three times a day. 

I’m also doing a strong infection program as the broken tooth became infected before it was pulled. 

In the past Cayenne alone was enough to clear the head spinning episodes I occasionally had.  Understanding how to truly stop the issue is impowering .

The human body is an extremely intricate, divinely computerized and a highly evolved vehicle.  It is much like man-made vehicles in that it must be in perfect running condition in order to get a “good performance.”

The nervous system consists of three major parts that must be in a healthy condition in order to work smoothly together.  First let’s consider the brain

The above gives a brief general description of the brain, showing where the various sections lie in the cavity, but let’s go in a little deeper to see how the different sections of the brain work together. 

The following information is taken from The New Modern Home Physician, (Wm. H. Wise and Co., Inc., 1947):

• “The large masses of nervous tissue forming the brain has an average weight of forty-nine ounces in a male adult. 
• The structure of the brain shows extraordinary complexity. 
• The larger part consists of the cerebrum in the form of two hemispheres, right and left, which are connected together by a broad band of fibers running transversely, and known as the corpus callosum.
• Below this come, in succession and on either side, masses of gray nervous matter, the optic thalamus and corpus striatum, and a stalk, the crus, literally a limb. 
• Then there is the pons or bridge, and lastly the medulla oblongata or bulb which is continuous with the spinal cord (q.v.).
• Behind and below the cerebral hemispheres is the cerebellum, or little brain, which also consists of two hemispheres.  These are connected with each other by a central part called the vermiform process and also through the pons.

Nervous Matter

Nervous matter is of two kinds, gray and white.  The former consists of nerve cells and their processes, and the latter of medullated nerve fibers, that is to say, nerve fibers which have a protective white sheath.  Both the fibers and the cells are supported by a kind of connective tissue called neuroglia.

The outer surface of the cerebrum and of the cerebellum is composed of layers of gray matter, and this is infolded, forming convolutions, affording thereby an increase in the area of the brain surface. 

The optic thalamus, as stated, is composed of gray matter, and besides this there are other masses in the base of the brain, in the crus, the pons and the medulla.  It is in the cells of the gray matter that nerve energy originates.  The nerve fibers of the white matter merely transmit such energy.

Within the brain there is a series of cavities known as ventricles, which communicate with each other and have a canal that runs down the center of the spinal cord.  These are filled with a watery fluid, called the cerebrospinal fluid.  The brain is covered by three membranes, the pia mater, in close contact with the brain substance, the arachnoid and the dura mater.  The last is in two layers, one lining the interior of the skull, and the other supporting the brain and sending folds into the deep fissures in the brain in order to accomplish this.

The space beneath the arachnoid is filled with cerebrospinal fluid, which is in communication with the fluid in the ventricles of the brain through certain openings at the back of the medulla oblongata.  This fact is of importance in connection with the occurrence of hydrocephalus (q.v.). It will be appreciated also that, as a preventive against injury, the brain has the advantage of resting on a water cushion.

The deeper fissures seen on the surface of a cerebral hemisphere mark its division into lobes.  The fissure of Rolando (after the Italian anatomist, Lugi Rolando), which, beginning a little behind the top of the head, runs obliquely downwards and forwards, marks the boundary between the frontal lobe in front and the parietal lobe behind.  The occipital lobe lies behind the parietal, and below these is the temporal lobe.  The mention of these lobes simplifies reference to the functions of the brain.  The gray matter on its surface contains millions of nerve cells, which are grouped according to the work they do.  In front of the fissures of Rolando is the area concerned with initiating voluntary movements, subdividing into parts serving the leg, arm and face in this order from above downwards.  The left side of the brain serves the right side of the body, however, and vice versa.

                Sensation is to some extent served by this area, but more by the parietal lobe.  Tactile sensations and those of pain and temperature are, however, appreciated by the optic thalamus; but this is under the control of the cerebral cortex or outer surface, and if this control is lost pleasing sensations become more pleasing and painful more painful.  In the optic thalamus, also, it would appear that movements expressive of emotion originate, smiling, for example, or grimacing from pain.

                The center for hearing is in the temporal lobe, and the smell seems to be related to a part of the brain at the anterior extremity of this lobe.  The centers for vision are in the occipital lobe.  The speech centers appear to be in the lower frontal and parietal lobes on the left side for a right-handed person.  The cerebellum is of importance in preserving equilibrium, and in coordinating the movements of muscles so as to permit the performance of complicated actions.

                From the brain comes twelve pairs of nerves, whose names and actions are as follows: (1) olfactory, subserving smell; (2) optic, nerve of vision; (3) oculomotor, supplying most of the muscles which move the eyeball and the muscle which contracts the pupil; (4) nerve supplying the muscle which turns the eyeball downwards and outward; (5) trigeminal, nerve supplying sensation to the face, etc., and to the muscles of mastication; (6) nerve supplying the muscle which turns the eyeball outward; (7) facial, nerve supplying the muscles of the face; (8) auditory, subserving hearing; (9) glossopharyngeal, a nerve of taste, also supplying sensation to the inside of the throat and activating some muscles there; (10) vagus, or wandering nerve, supplying the heart, lungs, stomach and other viscera, etc., (11) spinal accessory, supplying muscles in the neck; (12) hypoglossal, supplying the muscles moving the tongue.

                The blood supply of the brain is derived from the internal carotid and the vertebral arteries.  The venous blood and cerebrospinal fluid drain into the large venous channels, known as sinuses, which, in turn, pour their contents mainly into the internal jugular vein.  At various points on the surface of the skull these sinuses are connected with external veins, which, if they become infected, may communicate infection to the veins within.  One of the sinuses, the sigmoid, lies on the inner side of the mastoid process, and not infrequently becomes infected in suppurative disease of the middle ear.

Multiple Sclerosis, Myasthenia Gravis, Muscular Dystrophy, Lou Gehrig’s disease

Nerve disorders can be cured—but it takes total, dedicated to the natural programs to do it.

In this information sheet, you will read about people with various nervous system diseases who were cured.  Doctors may say these people were in remission, but between you and me, they were cured.

There is no wonder substance, or “herb in a capsule” that will correct these disorders.  And I can’t believe people are so ignorant as to believe that drugs can cure these diseases, or that they ever will.

Nervous disorders are total system breakdowns.  To think you can cure them with a drug is as nuts as believing that some gasoline additive can “cure” a car whose motor is worn out.  If you have one of these diseases, you need a complete overhaul, the whole Incurables Program.  Do not be tempted to pick some herbs from this chapter and try them first.  Do the whole program, or don’t waste everyone’s time.

That means the cold sheet treatment, the hot and cold showers, the juice fasting—all of it.

This Information sheet is drawn from a conversation Dr. Richard Schulze had with Sam Biser.  It begins with a long discussion of the various factors that are specific to curing these diseases.  Then, they discuss several cases in detail so that you can see how these principles are applied.