Preventing and Curing Motion Sickness

Summer time means traveling for many people and whether you travel by car, air, or boat some people will suffer from a bad case of motion sickness. Motion sickness is a very common occurrence that occurs when your senses become mixed up due to an imbalance in your inner ear. Of course, there are a number of over the counter medications that can cure and prevent motion sickness, however, there are also a number of safe alternative treatments that will also cure and prevent motion sickness. Try these techniques to cure and prevent motion sickness before you reach for the medication.

Motion sickness that occurs while driving in a car can be cured or prevented by spraying the inside of the car with a mist of essential oils. What you’ll need is a glass bottle with a sprayer. Fill the bottle with four ounces of distilled water and then add the following amount of essential oils to the water, 70 drops of lavender; 40 drops of lemon; 20 drops of dill; 10 drops of cedarwood; and 10 drops of spearmint. The dill, lemon, and spearmint will help calm your stomach, the lavender will help calm your nervous system, and the cedarwood helps keep the smell of the oils in the air to help cure the motion sickness. Make sure you shake the bottle well, spraying it about ten times. To cure motion sickness spray it when you start to feel sick, to prevent motion sickness spray it in the car before you begin your travel.

Another treatment to prevent and cure motion sickness is to take some ginger. Ginger works very well to settle the stomach. Drinking ginger tea works the best but you can also eat ginger candy. To make the tea, cut off the root to clearly exposing the root, place in 3 cups of water, and boil for 10 minutes. When getting ready to drink, pour a little lemon juice in the ginger tea to increase the effect of preventing or curing motion sickness. You can also take cocculus to help cure motion sickness. Cocculus works very well when used with ginger. To take cocculus, put two capsules of the 6C or 12C potency under your tongue and let it dissolve.

A couple of acupressure techniques work to cure motion sickness. The first type of acupressure that can help cure motion sickness is to use your index finger and press firmly on your upper lip for 30 seconds. Do this until the motion sickness goes away. Since motion sickness is caused by an imbalance in your inner ear, applying another aromatherapy technique that involves firmly pulling downward on your earlobes to increase the circulation can help cure motion sickness. Again, you can do this as often as you like to cure motion sickness.