Natural Remedies for Motion Sickness
People suffering from motion sickness experience symptoms that range from severe headache to queasiness to nausea and vomiting while flying, sailing, or traveling in automobiles or trains.
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Other symptoms of motion sickness includes:
- Cold sweats
- Dizziness
- Excessive salivation and or yawning
- Fatigue
- Loss of desire for food
- Pallor
- Severe distress
- Sleepiness
- Weakness
If severe, an attack can make the sufferer completely uncoordinated.
Women are affected by this condition more frequently than men are. Elderly people and children under the age of two usually are not affected.
Motion sickness occurs when motion causes the eyes, the sensory nerves, and the vestibular apparatus of the ear to send conflicting signals to the brain.
Common contributing factors are:
- Anxiety
- Genetics
- Overeating
- Poor ventilation
- Traveling immediately after eating
Natural remedies have been used with great success for motion sickness.
Prevention is the key; motion sickness is far easier to prevent than it is to cure. Once excessive salivation and nausea set in, it is often too late to do anything but wait for the trip to be over so recovery can begin.
- When traveling, take whole-grain crackers with you on trips.
- Peppermint tea soothes and calms the stomach. A drop of peppermint oil on the tongue provides excellent relief from nausea and motion sickness.
- Pay special attention to your diet. If a certain dish disagrees with you at home, it will most certainly disagree with you on the road.
- Stay cool, if possible. Fresh air can assist in battling motion sickness. If in a car, roll down a window. If on a ship, standing on deck and taking in the sea breezes can help. In an airplane, open the overhead vent.
- Limit or eliminate visual input. This will cut down on the conflicting information assaulting the brain. Traveling at night helps many people, simply because visual acuity is diminished, so that thy do not perceive motion to the same degrees as during the day.
- At sea, lying down and closing your eyes at the first sign of motion sickness can be helpful.
- In an automobile, set your eyes on a distant, stationary object, such as the horizon.
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