Instant treatments for seasickness

　　Nowadays, people cannot go traveling without automobiles or ferries. Otherwise, there are a few people got seasickness or carsickness. Though it is not a serious sickness, it is boring that it will cover your trip with an unhappy shadow. Even there are some people to cancel their trip because of the seasickness.

　　Why there is seasickness? It is because the over-sensitive of the inner ear atria and the semicircular canal. When sailing, because of the straight movement, bumping, shaking or circling, affecting by the machinery stimulations, the inner ear gets lost and functions of the atria disorder appears, causes the seasickness and carsickness. Its symptoms are suddenly being giddy, being nauseating, to vomit, being pale on the face, being sweaty, being despondent, lower or over speed pulse. The worst ones will occur hypopiesis and collapse. This kind of dizziness belongs to environmental dizziness, which often occurs among people of weak constitution, especially female. Sleepy, unsuitable bite and sup (eat too much or too little or drink, etc), tensity in spirit, anxiety, blues and noises, smell of gasoline, fishy smell, etc, bad stimulations, will effect or aggravate the symptoms of seasickness. Some people think that the cause of seasickness is because that some people not acclimatize themselves to traveling by terries or vehicles, since they never traveled by terries or vehicles.

　　 How to avoid seasickness? First of all, to take more exercises for body to make your constitution stronger. To have a good sleep and to eat insipid and easy-digesting foods. Do not eat too little or too much. Do not drink. To keep a good spirit is also very important. When seasickness occurred or going to occur, the sufferer had better to lie down in flat to have a rest. If it is no possible to lie down in flat, sufferer can lay their head on the back of the seat and close their eyes to have a rest. It is the best if sufferer to move to a seat nears the window. The fresh air is helpful in relaxing and lightening the symptoms. To take medicines as follows will also effect.

　　1. Dimenhydrinate, 25mgs, if no effect, to one more time 30 minutes after.
　　2. Diphenhydramine, 25mgs per time, 3 times per day.
　　3. Buclizine, 25mgs per time, 1 to 2 times per day. (You can choose one from above-mentioned medicines)
　　4. Scopolamine, 0.2-0.5mg per time, 3 times per day when necessary.
　　5. Metoclopramide, 10mgs per time, 3 times per day.
　　6. Vitamins B6, 20mgs per time, 3 times per day.
　　7. Ren Dan Wan, to take some and keep in month.
　　8. A small piece of fresh ginger, to keep in month and swallow the saliva frequently. When the ginger become none of taste, to change a new one.
　　9. To keep or chew foods like mango, prune, ginger candy, acid drop, etc.

　　 Outer treatments as follows are also helpful for the avoid of seasickness.

　　 1. To daub medicated oil on the head. Might as well to daub medicated oil like Qing Liang You or Feng You Jing, etc on the head.
　　2. To stick medicated herbs on the umbilicus. Get one piece of fresh ginger and stick it onto the umbilicus, and then fixed by a medical rubberized fabric or an anti-water analgetic ointment. If no fresh ginger available, to stick anti-water analgetic ointment will also effect.
　　3. To use remedy for nose. Put some menthol or vinegar on a respirator or a handkerchief, and then put it under the nose. You can also put 1 or 2 pieces of fresh gingers into a respirator, and then put it on.
　　4. To stick a piece of ginger on the Nei Guan Point. Following the rule of left side for man and right side for woman, to stick a piece of fresh ginger onto Nei Guan Point of the hand, and then fixed by a rubberized fabric or a handkerchief.
　　5. To acupuncture or to press by the fingers onto Nei Guan Point and He Gu Point.