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Stimulating Acupuncture Wrist Point Stops Nausea

  • July 29, 2004

Acupuncture to the wrist can help to relieve nausea and vomiting in patients following surgery, according to a review involving more than 3,000 patients. It appears that stimulating the pericardium, or P6, acupuncture point on the wrist (see photo for location) reduces the nausea that affects about four out of five patients who have had anesthetics. Patients who received P6 acupuncture were about 28 percent less likely to feel nauseous or be sick than those who received a placebo or sham...