Avoiding motion sickness without drugs?

[SamBeaven]

I've suffered from really bad motion sickness since I was small, and I still get it (at the age of 21). Currently I can stave it off with the aid of travel sickness tablets, but I'd like to avoid drugs if I can (also, the drugs tend to make me drowsy, which isn't productive if I'm, say, on a bus and want to read).

Anyone got any tips that could help relieve this? Is NLP good for this sort of thing?

[Michelle]

I get bad car sickness, too, and refuse to pop pills for it.

Eating candied ginger helps.... also some drops of "Melissengeist" which is a spirit made from the herb lemon balm.

Sitting in the back seat, window cracked for fresh air.

[Jae]

Motion sickness is often caused by a conflict in the signals your brain is recieving from the eyes and the inner ear. Something that helps many people with motion sickness is to lean into the corners and look the way you're traveling. Hope this helps, might be worth a try

[jonw]

Ive heard that taking ginger can greatly reduce this.

[WanderingOak]

I have seen herbal remedies offered in Asian markets. I think one combination is ginger-orange rind. I have seen these products work, although I have also met people where it did not work. I served in the Navy with a woman who had cronic motion sickness, and nothing would help her- not even the drugs. She had a MRI done of her inner ear, and found a defect in her semicircular canals. It did get her off of sea duty at least...

[footprints]

Have you seen Acupressure bands? You can buy them in chemists (at least in the UK) and you wear them around your wrists. A little knob presses an acupressure point on your wrist. Sounds nuts, but they really do work - whether placebo effect or not, but I don't think so. They also really help with pregnancy sickness!

I also suffer from motion sickness so I sympathise, and I can't take drugs at the moment as I'm breastfeeding! Reading makes it MUCH worse though, I just look out of the window and try to think positive thoughts!!