[Principles of conservative therapy of peripheral and central disorders of equilibrium].

Disturbance of equilibrium is a vestibular induced disturbance of orientation in space that is perceived subjectively as vertigo. Change of behaviour and specific medication is the optimal causal therapy, but symptomatic therapy is preferred in practice, using drugs that suppress different input activities or the activity of central vestibular structures. In this way a disordered flow of information is eliminated and the equilibrium is restored.