Acupuncture for nausea is a branch of unconventional medicine. The demand for the services of acupuncturists has been growing in recent years. Scientists from leading universities like Yale urge not to abandon therapy just because its mechanism is not yet fully understood, and everyone at least once heard about the pain-relieving effect acupuncture points for nausea.

Acupuncture for pregnancy nausea: truth and myths

Earlier, due to the lack of research, gestation was considered a contraindication for applying acupuncture points for nausea in pregnancy. Luckily, today, both Western and Eastern scientists, in practice, have proven the successful use of this technique. Also in many European countries, and in the United States, acupuncture is successfully used as anesthesia during childbirth and even successfully replaces it during cesarean section. 

Due to various studies, many women, who tried acupuncture for pregnancy nausea at different stages of pregnancy, have significantly improved their condition. Moreover, patients with early and late toxicosis, threatening abortion, fetal hypoxia turned out to be very promising for the use of reflexology. Mild and moderate severity of these complications were cured with reflexotherapy without medication in 85-92% of patients. 

Hence, the doctors have come to the conclusion that using acupuncture points for nausea in pregnancy is completely safe for both the mother’s body and the fetus. If you experience such a situation, visit our clinic to relieve the problem.

Types of acupuncture points for nausea

Chinese medicine recommends relieving unpleasant symptoms using an acupuncture point for nausea — pressing on biologically active points. According to Chinese specialists, massaging these points can relieve mild nausea. There are 3 types of acupuncture for nausea:

• Point 1 — on the wrist.

In order to find this area, you need to put the palm of your left hand on the inside of the right hand so that the little finger touches the edge of the hand. In the center of the line along which the index finger touches the right hand, this point will be located. 

• Point 2 — on the hand.

To find this acupuncture spot for nausea, you need to put your left thumb between the thumb and forefinger of your right hand. In this case, the “strip” between the phalanges of the thumb of the left hand should fall on the skin fold between the fingers of the right hand. After massaging a point on one hand, the doctor moves on to the other.

• Point 3 — on the middle finger

These are two points at once, which are located on the hand on the sides of the knuckle of the middle finger in the place where the phalanx of the finger joins the joint. Experts recommend pressing on both sides of this  acupuncture point for nausea at the same time.

Benefits of going a course of acupuncture for nausea

This therapy has a plethora of useful functions:

• activates local and general immunity;
• improves lymph and blood circulation;
• normalizes humoral and nervous regulation, blood pressure;
• stimulates heart and brain activity;
• soothes, has an anti-stress effect, as it enhances the synthesis of “happiness hormones” — neuropeptides and endorphins. 

The procedures of using the acupuncture spot for nausea are carried out in courses of up to 10 sessions with a weekly interval. After the course, they take a break, after which the consultations can be sometimes prescribed again. In our clinic we develop individual treatment schemes for each patient in order to rapidly and effectively reveal the problem. With the help of our professional doctors of the highest category, who are the authors of their own methods with rich experience, you will be able to liquidate present symptoms and prevent future diseases. To consult our reflexologist, make an appointment by phone or on the website.