Acupuncture for dizziness

Chinese Medicine sees dizziness as a syndrome of emptiness of the meridians of the liver and the kidneys and fullness of the meridians of the gall bladder and the urinary bladder.

The syndrome of the emptiness of the liver is characterized  by the following symptoms: dizziness in the morning,  when getting up from horizontal position, when turning the head fast, and when depressed. 

The syndrome of the emptiness of the kidneys is characterized by the symptoms: darkness in the eyes, feeling cold in the lower body, and pain in the sacrum.
Recipes for acupuncture treatment, including techniques of needling, depend on the syndrome and there are also individual acupuncture points, which work well for dizziness.

For example, the point on the neck half an inch below the ear is needled bilaterally  for about 20 minutes and then the point gets moxa.  If dizziness is persistent, sometimes the needles are left in for a longer time. If dizziness occurs after severe sun exposure, bloodletting might be performed (a drop or two) and then the appropriate points will be needled.  In case of poor blood circulation to the brain certain points might be needled until a small drop of blood appears.