What You Can Use for Nausea

Having an upset stomach is such a regular occurrence because it can be caused by so many things. What you eat, what you don’t eat, what you drink, what you don’t drink - I think you get the picture. Bugs and bacteria aren’t the only way to become unwell. When sickness strikes though it is well worth taking a look at a few of the following natural medicines to try and clear away that sickly feeling.

Ginger

Ginger is an incredible food supplement because it has so many natural properties that can help soothe and settle you during illness. The oils when used in the right dosage. Breathing in the vapor produced when added to hot water can calm your mind and help take your mind of the anxious, sickly feeling you’ve been getting. If you’re planning on using creams, getting an aromatherapy cream that has ginger in could be used to rub into your stomach and as such soothing any pains or bloating through gingers natural anti-inflammatory elements. Massaging these oils into your skin can often help with indigestion and nausea brought on by something you’ve eaten.

Take an Aromatherapy Bath!

This is one of the more exciting ways to try and cure your illness because it involved doing absolutely nothing, which is always great. Pour a bath full of hot water and add in 10 drops of an aromatherapy oil of your choice. Ginger, fennel or peppermint are all excellent choices because of their ability to calm inflamed and tender areas of the body, meaning your stomach too. Lay in this bath for a while. The longer you’re there the more time the oil will have to work its wonders on your body. The warm water will also make you less tense, which could be making the nauseous pain even worse.

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Don’t Ingest Oils

If there is one solid bit of advice I can give you here it’s that these oils are not for consuming by mouth. If you’re to mix them into a drink, with it being an oil, they won’t dissolve and they will sit on the top of the drink and do you possible harm in the process. These types of medicine are only for use on your skin or for breathing in. If you’re looking for something to drink, why not look for the suggested flavors when buying tea?

Another nice bit of advice is that you can always mix the oils together, but that’s getting into complicated territory really. Like with foodstuff, mixing aromatherapy oils will give you different effects and can be really beneficial. Using aromatherapy when you’re not ill is also another sage piece of advice. Preventative measures are the only thing better than curative measures, so if you can try and relax your body and mind on a regular basis, your immune system may not go into overdrive when you’re feeling a bit worn down because the service you’re doing for your body while you’re well is helping keep you feeling tip-top if you’re at risk of getting ill.