Morning Sickness Cure

Recently, I mentioned how things like Sea-Bands and Relief Bands can help to reduce nausea during pregnancy. Along with all the typical home remedies (like ginger, lemon, vitamin B6, etc…) I tried these bands too to help stop my morning sickness. While they only helped a little, this was nevertheless the only technique that actually provided any relief at all. Curious as to why, I had to learn more…

The answer is acupressure. Acupressue is similar in concept to acupressure, except that instead of using needles to puncture the skin and stimulate trigger points, you use your own fingers to gently apply pressure or tap on the key meridian points.

Sounds a little too “new age”? Guess what though? It works! Scientists and western doctors are slowly catching on that maybe they don’t know everything and there is something new under the sun to be learned. The Chinese, by the way, have been doing acupressure and acupuncture for over 4000 years. If it didn’t work, I think they would have stopped at least a few thousand years ago.

Here are a few links I came across from the National Institute of Health (NIH), and Oxford University in the UK about using acupressure as a morning sickness cure.

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11303547
• http://fampra.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/17/6/570

So why does this work to stop severe morning sickness? Well, here is what I think is happening.

The causes of morning sickness are a little more complicated than just low blood sugar and changing appetites. When you’re pregnant, there are a lot of emotions swirling around in your life and mid. When it comes to health in general, I really believe that there is a mind-body connection. Or, in other words, in times of stress you tend to get sick more. Or, if you think about stressful things, you will get more stressed an unhealthy.

Stress, fatigue, trauma, and high emotions in general all cause chemical imbalances, muscle tension, and poor circulation to build up around certain points of the body. Acupressure works to relieve tension around these points and provides increased blood flow, which improves the circulation and balance of natural bioelectrical and chemical elements in your body.

In a nutshell, that’s how I think acupressure works to relieve morning sickness. It also explains why some people get much more sick than others: because everybody is different, and reacts to being pregnant in a different way. It also explains why western doctors have been stumped for hundreds of years about the cause of morning sickness. They just need to open their mind a little and realize that there’s a little bit more science going on.

More to come soon..