Natural Cures for Seasickness & Nausea

These secret all natural cures are guaranteed to help you tame seasickness, motion sickness, and nausea.

My husband and I are avid boaters and most weekends you’ll find us on our boat – sandbar-ing, entertaining or just relaxing.  But my husband has a tendency to get gets seasick in rough seas.  We’ve tried all sorts of remedies but these are the top 4 cures that work almost 100% of the time.

Key Tips To Alleviate Seasickness, Motion Sickness, and Nausea.

• Take action as soon as you begin to feel nauseous
• Sip hot ginger tea with lemon
• Suck on ginger candy or lozenges
• Breathe in peppermint or lemon essential oil

These natural remedies are helpful for relieving nausea that comes with seasickness, pregnancy, post-surgery, and chemotherapy.

Just remember, you should always check with your doctor before using any supplements or natural cures.  You want to make sure that it won’t adversely interact with any medications you currently take.

Ginger

Ginger
Ginger is an ancient nausea remedy and has been used for over 2000 years to relieve nausea and cure seasickness.  Try sipping ginger tea, chewing on a piece of raw, peeled ginger (don’t swallow the ginger), suck on ginger candy or try sipping ginger ale.

Peppermint

Peppermint
Sipping peppermint tea helps to calm an upset stomach.  You can take peppermint supplements or suck on peppermint candies.

The scent of peppermint can ease nausea.  Place a couple of drops of peppermint essential oil on your hands and rub them together vigorously and the inhale the aroma.

Acupressure

Acupressure
Acupressure is an age-old practice, think 1000’s of years, of stimulating pressure points throughout the body to alleviate nausea, pain, and illness. for thousands of years.  Practitioners believe that stimulating certain nerves using simple pressure on pressure points in the body send signals to the brain that in turn sends hormones to relieve pain and nausea.

There have been a number of studies that looked at how effective acupressure is in helping chemotherapy patients control nausea.  These studies found that acupressure as effective as anti-nausea medications and have the added benefit of no adverse side effects.  Acupressure to the wrist can significantly reduce nausea and vomiting.  It’s the same concept behind the wristbands sold to manage seasickness without the silly look.  Learn more about the pressure points and how they can help you stay well and naturally reduce motion sickness on your next trip.

Acupressure can also help people with acid reflux, and other conditions.

Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy, using scents like peppermint or lemon can reduce nausea and can also alleviate the stress and anxiety that comes along with nausea.  The most effective aromatherapy essential oils to alleviate seasickness are:

Top 10 Essential Oils to Treat Seasickness, Motion Sickness, and Nausea

1. Ginger
2. Peppermint
3. Lavender
4. Chamomile
5. Fennel
6. Nutmeg
7. Black Pepper
8. Basil
9. Grapefruit
10. Cardamom

The easiest way to treat using essential oils is to place a drop or 2 of essential oil into the palm of your hands and rub to warm then inhale deeply or place drops on a tissue and inhale, or put it in an essential oil diffuser. If you are sensitive to essential oils you may want to try a diffuser and be careful not to get essential oils on your skin since they can cause irritation or an allergic reaction.

Aromatherapy Spray to Help Seasickness and Motion Sickness

I like to use an essential oil blend of ginger, peppermint, and cardamom essential oils.  I like to use a small stainless steel spray bottle filled 3/4 of the way with distilled water and add 8 drops ginger, 4 drops peppermint and 4 drops of cardamom.  Shake well prior to each use.

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