Homeopathy for Travel Sickness

Its summer time and I bet everyone must have planned to visit different places.Some get scared to travel because of the squeaky feeling and butterflies they get during travel,spoiling the vacation mood.Now you need not have to worry about,just keep some homeopathic medicines handy in your purse.
Many people get sickness when travelling by car,boat or plane.There are probably two factors which may be responsible for this particularly disagreeable form of malaise.One is oxygen-lack resulting from lack of fresh air in the closed car,cabin,or railway compartment,possibly associated with pollution of the atmosphere by fumes.The other factor is the adverse effect on the organ of equilibrium in the ear of unusual motion.This tends to produce giddiness,headache,nausea and other symptoms.

Some Home Remedies for Travel Sickness:
• Peppermint (Mentha piperita) tea, sipped frequently, may also help; add a little ginger to it for extra benefit.
• Cover you nose from any kind of odor that may cause this nauseating feeling. It can be engines fume, smell of dead fish or even the odor coming from the person sitting next to you.
• Try traveling at night as you may avoid the motion of vehicles.
• Get fresh air by opening the window of your car. Get down from the bus when it stops. Reach the deck and smell the ocean or sea when you are on a boat or a ship. Turn on the vent when in plane.
• While traveling avoid drinking too much alcohol as it makes your head twirl. If you are planning to drink, have it in less quantity.
• Sleep well before you travel lack of sleep makes you tired and gives one more reason to suffer from motion sickness.
• Be seated and keep your head still this would help in alleviating the motion problem.
• If in a car sit in the front seat and focus on the road helping you to have a proper balance of your body and eye.
• Motion sickness is partially psychological so try to be more positive when you are traveling. Be stress-free and think of things which can make you happy.
• Avoid reading as it is one of the major causes for motion sickness no matter which mode of transport it is.
• Look at something stationery as it helps to keep the balance.
• Avoid eating too much before you travel as it increases your chances of triggering a motion sickness.
• You can try sucking on crystallized ginger candy or make ginger tea by pouring hot boiling water over chopped ginger and also add brown sugar to it.
• Ginger works great against motion sickness as it absorbs acids and blocks the nausea in your gastrointestinal tract.
• Eating couple of olives on the first suggestion of nausea would surely help. As olive contains tannins to make your mouth dry and it does not trickle into your stomach which can make you nauseated.
• You can also suck of lemon to prevent this problem.

There are several remedies which,used homeopathically,have proved of value.
Borax: with its fear of downward motion,should be of value in air travel.
Cocculus: nausea associated with loathing, or even thought,of food,increased at sight or smell of food; inclination to vomit is accompanied by copious salivation,giddiness and unsteady gait,feels better on lying down.

Nux Vomica: horrible queasy nausea,associated with splitting headache,often at back and loathing for food,tobacco,coffee,bloated feeling,much gagging,retching and rather ineffectual vomiting,wants warmth.

Petroleum: persistent nausea with accumulation of water in mouth,pain in stomach with feeling of great emptiness and relief if something can be eaten,vomiting and giddiness which is worse from light or noise or on attempting to sit up.Severe pain at back of head with stiffness of neck muscles.

Rhustox: especially of value in air sickness,nausea and vomiting accompanied by complete loss of appetite,extreme giddiness on attempting to rise,several frontal headache with unquenchable thirst.

Tabacum: Nausea,giddiness,death like pallor,vomiting,icy coldness,sweats, utter prostration,terrible faint sinking feeling, worse by smell of tobacco smoke.

Enjoy your Vacation!
NOTE: Any information given above is not intended to be taken as a replacement for medical advice. Therefore, it is very important that the patients should avoid self-treatment and rather consult the most abled and qualified classical homoeopath and take the treatment under his /her proper guidance and advice.