Naturopathy can help with motion sickness

What helps with motion sickness? Naturopathy can effectively alleviate and prevent travel sicknesses.

(25.05.2010) Many people feel sick when traveling by car. In general, this phenomenon is described as "motion sickness". Some people are sometimes even so strongly affected by the "motion sickness", so they have to throw up. It gets really bad if you have to drive a lot of bends by car, and this alone spoils the desire of many people to travel. There are sensible preventive measures to make traveling enjoyable despite being vulnerable.

Traveling sickness is caused by the confusing information of muscles, eyes and the inner ear balance system while driving, which is confusing to the human brain. On the one hand, you move on by car and on the other hand, the musculoskeletal system is not required. It gets really bad when you read a book as a passenger. While the eyes focus on reading the book, the balance system registers a fast pace. Many people then react with nausea, cold sweats, dizziness and even vomiting. In acute situations, it helps to interrupt the drive, get out, move and breathe fresh air. In addition, naturopathy offers numerous treatment options in acute motion sickness. The best is fresh ginger doused with hot water, as tincture or candied (in children). The healing root of Asia has been known for centuries to relieve nausea and vomiting.

But even before and during the journey, those affected can prepare themselves meaningfully. So you should on the eve of departure easily digestible meals to eat and waive while driving on high-fat diet. Instead of reading a book, you should focus more on the passing landscape. To distract themselves audiobooks have proven to be effective. It should also be ensured that always fresh air can penetrate through a window gap in the car. Also, conversations in the car about an approaching nausea should be avoided at all costs, as otherwise symptoms could be significantly increased subjectively. Alcohol, coffee and nicotine should be avoided before and while driving. In the train, in the bus and in the car, people who are very susceptible to a motion sickness should sit in the direction of travel. Rubbing the wrists with rosemary or basil oil is also beneficial in naturopathic terms. Also melissa drops, which can be taken before the start of the journey, have proven to be useful in some people. (Sb)