Acupressure Points for Nausea & Vomiting – With Great Result

Acupressure Points for Nausea – With Great Results

Nausea shows up everywhere. Pregnancy, motion sickness, eating and drinking too much, even chemotherapy treatment. However, for many of us, there is a drug-free way to ease nausea: acupressure.

Different points help with different kinds of nausea, and you can use them to ease it or head it off. Acupressure is quick, it costs nothing, and you feel better without the side effects medication can bring.

Acupressure Points for Nausea & Vomiting

Learn where these points are, press them when you need to, and most people feel relief pretty fast.

Applying Pressure Using Your Fingers

The points below can take the edge off nausea and vomiting. Get as comfortable as you can first. It helps more than you’d think.

Hold your arms out in front of you, fingers pointing up, palms facing you. Drop your shoulders. Breathe slowly and deeply. Deep breaths alone can settle some of that awful queasy feeling.

Arm Pressure Point

Lay three fingers across the crease of your wrist, then put your thumb just below them. That’s P6, sitting between the two large tendons. When you feel queasy, press firmly and rub in small circles for a few minutes. Then do the other wrist. Some people feel better right away. For others it takes a few minutes.

You can also tap the spot quickly, several times, while you breathe deeply. Either arm works. And honestly, even just rubbing your wrist can help if you can’t find the exact point.

Pressure Point below the Knee

Now look for ST36. It’s one of the most used acupoints there is, known for giving the body strength and stamina. Find the bottom of your kneecap and measure four finger-widths below it. Put a finger just below that spot, on the outside of the shin bone. Found it? You’ll know, because the muscle flexes when you move your foot up and down.

ST36 Acupressure for Nausea and Vomiting

Press hard with your heel, a fingernail, or your thumb. Don’t rub or massage it. Just hold the pressure for several minutes.

Acupressure for Nausea and Vomiting While Pregnant

Queasiness in pregnancy is normal, but that doesn’t make it easy. Some women suffer badly with it. It can hit at any time of day, wreck your routine, and come with vomiting too.

The techniques above can help. Watch out for dehydration, though, and go easy on your digestive system with what you eat. Having drinks and small snacks ready during the day makes nausea and vomiting easier to keep under control.

Acupressure Points for Nausea & Vomiting

Fluids matter here. Dry lips and peeing less than usual are both signs you’re not drinking enough. Sip small amounts, often. Soup is a good option for staying hydrated. A few other things that help:

• One tbsp of apple cider vinegar in a cup of boiling water, with honey to taste
• Chamomile tea
• Ginger tea: grate a piece of root, soak it in boiling water for 10 minutes, add honey to taste. Don’t go over three cups per day.
• Potato soup, which is full of nutrients. Peel and chop two medium potatoes, fry them in olive oil, then add one cup of water with pepper & salt to taste. Simmer for 20 minutes, topping up with stock or water until it looks right.

Smell is a big trigger for a lot of pregnant women. Alongside the acupressure points, these help:

Acupressure for Nausea & Vomiting – P6

• Put an oil burner with peppermint or vanilla essence in the kitchen or your room.
• Leave lemon slices in a slow cooker on low, lid off, for a clean, fresh scent.

Two more points are worth knowing if you want to ease nausea during pregnancy.

The ID27 points sit on your lower collarbone, two thumb widths from your breastbone. Press firmly on both sides for a few seconds. The KID6 point is on the inside of the ankle, a thumb’s width below the protruding bone. That one’s good too.

Final Word

Press firmly. Half-hearted pressure won’t do much. If you’re pregnant and none of this eases the nausea or vomiting, see your doctor. Dehydration can land you in hospital, and that’s a danger to your baby. Better safe than sorry, as I’d rather be.

Home Remedies for Nausea and Vomiting

Nausea and vomiting together? Miserable. They’re symptoms, not illnesses in themselves, and they can point to all sorts of things, from too much food & alcohol to food poisoning or pregnancy. You’ll also get both with diarrhea or motion sickness.

Nausea starts in the inner ear (the labyrinthine part), the gut, or the brain. Vomiting is a reflex: the muscles around your oesophageal sphincter relax while your diaphragm and abdominal muscles contract, forcing everything up. Motion sickness, overeating, or a bad smell are the usual triggers. Sometimes, though, it’s something more serious that needs medical tests.

Luckily, there’s a lot you can do at home, whether it’s pregnancy nausea, diarrhea, or a vomiting toddler. Here are the remedies I’d start with.

Home Remedies for Nausea and Vomiting During Pregnancy:

Fresh air helps more than people expect. So do plain biscuits or dry toast, eaten little and often rather than in big meals. Certain smells can set nausea off, and eating food at room temperature (it smells less) can help too.

Chew slowly. Skip the foods you know set you off. And if you’re really struggling, try these:

• Drink plenty of water so you stay hydrated.
• Ginger is one of the best herbal remedies for morning sickness. Even smelling it can take the edge off. Chew a ginger candy or a piece of fresh ginger if you can face it. Or stir five drops of ginger juice into one tsp of honey and take it first thing in the morning. Tea works too: one tsp of grated ginger with honey in warm water, twice daily.
• Acupressure helps a lot of people. You can wear an acupressure wristband on each wrist, or do it by hand: lay three fingers across your wrist, put your thumb underneath below the index finger, and rub firmly in circles for up to three minutes. Then switch wrists.
• Peppermint contains methanol, which has a mild anesthetic effect and helps keep nausea and vomiting down. Drink it as tea: 1 tsp of dried peppermint in hot water with honey, steeped for up to 10 minutes. Or put a few drops of peppermint oil on a handkerchief and breathe it in.
• Lemon peel is good for vomiting too. Smell the peel, or put the essential oil on a handkerchief and sniff that. A squeeze of lemon in a glass of water with honey can also keep the bouts away.
• Lastly, that old standby, Apple Cider Vinegar. Mix one tablespoon of honey with one tablespoon of ACV in cold water and drink it before bed. In the morning, use three teaspoons of AVC in warm water instead, on an empty stomach.

Home Remedies for Nausea and Vomiting in Diarrhea:

One minute you’re fine. The next, you’re running for the bathroom in the middle of the night. Diarrhea, often from stomach flu, is no joke. Stress can bring it on, so can eating something dodgy, food poisoning, or traveler’s diarrhea. Usually it passes quickly, but drag it out and dehydration can make it life-threatening.

Stomach flu often clears up on its own in a day, no prescription needed. Pharmacies sell over-the-counter medications that slow the gut down, and doctors sometimes prescribe antibiotics for a bacterial infection. Nausea acupressure is worth trying at home too.

Press the index finger, a fraction of an inch from the corner of the nail on the thumb side. Hold for up to seven seconds, and repeat a few times. Or boil blackberry root bark in water for up to 20 minutes, strain it, and drink it as tea.

For adults, these help too:

• Stop eating for now, especially if you’re vomiting.
• Rest. It sounds basic, but rest helps with diarrhea and a lot of other illnesses.
• Put a heating pad on your stomach for the cramps and pain. A cold cloth on the forehead at the same time can be oddly comforting.
• Suck on ice chips instead of gulping water. It keeps you hydrated without overwhelming your stomach.
• Sip clear fluids every hour, slowly. Sports drinks or clear broth are good. Skip sugary and caffeinated drinks, they make things worse.
• Eat bananas. They’re easy to digest and high in potassium, which helps with nausea and vomiting.
• As the nausea fades, add bland foods. Keep it easy to digest: rice, gelatin, chicken. Pretzels are a decent snack, since the salt helps your body hold onto water.
• Dairy isn’t banned, by the way. Yogurt has probiotics that get your digestive system back on track. Just make sure it’s plain.
• Ginger, mint, chamomile, or Rooibos tea all work. Rooibos is good for irritable bowel syndrome too.
• Burnt toast is an old one. It helps absorb toxins and work the illness out of your body.

Home Remedies for Infants and Children with Stomach Flu:

Keep your child lying on their side. It lowers the chance of them breathing vomit into their lungs. Keep fluids going in. If they keep vomiting the liquid back up, call your pediatrician.

If it isn’t severe, these home remedies are worth trying:

Fluids first. Push fluids to replace what kids have lost. Keep them off solid food for up to 12 hours after the vomiting stops. Light vegetable soup, ice cream, or clear broth are all fine.

Ginger Juice – not every child will love it, but it does help stop nausea and vomiting. Grate small pieces, squeeze out the juice, and mix it with honey so it’s easier for your child to take.

Cinnamon – cinnamon tea soothes and calms the stomach. Add a teaspoon of cinnamon powder to a cup of boiled water, strain it, and stir in honey for taste. Fresh mint leaves work in it too.

Rice Water – a traditional home remedy for vomiting: boil a cup of white rice in two cups of water. Once the rice is cooked, strain the water off and give that to your kid.