Acupuncture in those early days bore little resemblance to the modern practice: needles were not hollow and painful areas were lanced.
But as the Australian health advocacy group Friends of Science in Medicine summarized in a fantastic article, Traditional Chinese Medicine, of which acupuncture is a branch, is “one of the major pre-scientific medicines.” In the days before the systematic development of the scientific method and well before the advent of clinical trials to help separate the medical wheat from the chaff, diseases were seen as imbalances and blockages in imaginary life forces, and interventions like acupuncture were meant to restore their flow.
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A brief history of acupunctureĪcupuncture received a makeover in the last fifty years or so, a public relations facelift that obscured its limp foundation and made it look professional and respectable. The first layer is that the nausea spot on the wrist is an acupuncture point. It is easy to find a slew of scientific studies apparently confirming that there is an on/off switch for nausea on the wrist, but digging into this literature requires layers of interpretation.
A bit of pressure on the wrist sounds nicer. Sure, drugs exist that claim to relieve nausea, but they don’t always work well and many cause drowsiness. There are even expensive electronic bracelets that will stimulate this spot with the right vibrations. Specialty bracelets, like Sea-Band, can be purchased for this purpose: their stretchable band has a plastic dome stitched on the inside and the dome’s pressure on the wrist is said to do the trick. There is a spot on the wrist that, when pressed, is alleged to stop nausea in its tracks. Some people will argue that my torment could have been prevented by the wise use of my wrists. The weather was so bad, even the whales decided not to show up. I vomited not just once but twice and spent hours on the deck of the boat, getting thoroughly soaked and feeling like I just needed to get off. Thus began one of the worst days of my life. A boat, they concluded, is supposed to move horizontally on a body of water, not vertically. The first couple of big waves were actually fun, but very quickly my brain and my gut decided that they weren’t fun anymore. The weather conditions were dodgy, but our skipper decided to go ahead with the whale watching expedition. Both can be purchased in stores or online ($10 to $15).A few years ago, I found myself on a small boat in the Pacific Ocean. Psi Bands are plastic bands with adjustable pressure. Szarka says that stimulating the P6 point can work as well as anti-nausea medications for some patients whose nausea is due to motion sickness or anesthesia.īrands to check out: Sea-Bands are washable elastic bands. Should you try it? Sure-the bands are safe and inexpensive. But older studies showed that they reduced migraine-induced nausea as well as the frequency and severity of nausea in pregnant women. What we know: A 2018 study in the journal Cancer found that these types of bands did not significantly reduce nausea in pediatric cancer patients receiving chemo.
A band maintains steady pressure on your P6 point, located on your inner arm just below your wrist this stimulates the median nerve, interrupting “I’m sick” messages sent between the brain and the belly. What they are: Wristbands use acupressure (pressure is applied to specific points along meridians on the body to keep energy owing evenly) to provide relief.
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