A review of more than 3,300 cases found acupuncture in the wrist relieved vomiting and nausea in patients after surgery. Stimulating the pericardium, or P6, acupuncture point on the wrist reduces the nausea that affects about 80 percent of the people who have had anesthetics.
Moreover, patients who received P6 acupuncture were less likely by about 28 percent to feel nausea than those using placebo methods or medications.
In fact, acupuncture--the process of inserting fine needles into the body at various points--was found to be just as effective as routine medications in various trials.
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2004
Another study verified the effectiveness of meridian-based energy therapies like acupuncture to help pregnant woman better handle their common bouts of nausea. I'm not as much of a fan of acupuncture because doing so requires an office visit with a specialist to insert the needles.
Because I believe in inexpensive and non-toxic solutions for problems like these, I recommend Sea Bands, acupressure wrist bands that help people who suffer from motion sickness. During a recent Google search, I found some 1.3 million links to Web sites describing or selling them, including Amazon.com.
Although Sea Bands don't treat the cause, they provide a simple and inexpensive solution to this problem.
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