Introduction to tinnitus:

Basically, tinnitus is the health problem for hearing sounds that come from inside your body, rather than from an outside source. However, it is often described as ringing in the ears as well because the following sounds are heard in the ears:

• Buzzing.
• Humming.
• Grinding.
• Hissing.
• Whistling.

Is tinnitus serious?

Tinnitus is not always a sign of a serious underlying condition. For some people it may come and go and only be a minor irritation. However, sometimes it can also be continuous and also have a significant impact on everyday life. Some of the severe cases can be very distressing, affect concentration, and cause problems like the difficulty in sleeping and also severe depression. In so many cases, tinnitus also gets better gradually with the passage of time. But it is also very important to seek for the medical advice to see if an underlying cause can be found and treated.

Natural cures:

There are so many people who have been looking for the natural treatment for tinnitus as they don’t like to get into different kind of medical treatments for this problem. Some of the most effective natural treatments are:

• Using the calming background sound: People suffering from the tinnitus are usually advice to mark the noise in their ears by turning on some background music or other sounds. They can even make use of the tapes or CDs with white noise of the ocean, a babbling brook, rainfall, soft music, etc or whatever works for helping them block out and cover up the sounds in their ears.
• Try to listen to the brown or pink noise: The “Brown noise” is also a collection of some kind of randomly generated sounds and they are generally perceived a lot more deeper in the sounds than white noise. However, “Pink noise” also uses the lower frequencies and are also perceived as deeper sounds than white noise. Either pink or brown noise is often recommended to help with sleep for the people suffering from tinnitus.
• Look into music therapy. A German study involving music therapy in tinnitus recently showed that music therapy employed in early cases of this health problem can amazingly prevent that tinnitus turns into a chronic condition. However, this therapy involves listening to the favorite music with its frequency altered to center on the same frequency as the ringing in the ears.