Emotional depression, anger, improper diet, debility due to prolonged illness and excessive sexual intercourse may cause vertigo. The pathogenesis of the excess type is stagnation of turbid phlegm in the middle energizer resulting in failure of lucid yang to ascend, or hyperactivity of liver yang disturbing the head; while that of the deficiency type is deficiency of both blood and qi or insufficiency of kidney essence leading to failure of qi to ascend to the head. In fact, most of the cases are of deficiency type. As for its location, vertigo involves the head and is closely related to the liver, spleen and kidney. Vertigo may be found in hypertension, hypotension, hypoglycemia, anemia, Meniere's disease, cerebral arteriosclerosis, vertebrobasilar ischemia and neurasthenia.

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, there are some patterns of syndrome that lead to vertigo (Dizziness).
1. Upward Disturbance of Wind Yang
2. Flaring-up of Liver Fire
3. Upward Disturbance of Turbid Phlegm
4. Deficiency of Qi and Blood
5. Deficiency of Liver Yin and Kidney Yin
6. Retention of Blood Stasis in the Orifices