Travel Sickness

Be it business or pleasure, we all have to travel either by train, bus, car, auto air, boat or cable car. Unfortunately, some people develop intense discomfort and uneasiness while traveling or even afterwards. This travel Sickness is a constitutional illnesses that can be treated easily by Homoeopathy.
Air sickness
Most of the travel problems are caused by air travel, the best known one being jet - lag. Scientific studies clearly support that the fact of Circadian (from the Latin circa dies
Meaning about a day)  body rhythms, that is, variations in many body functions during a 24 hour light dark cycle. As anyone who has made a transcontinental flight or experienced an abrupt change through a job shift knows, it can be very difficult to adjust to a new light /dark cycle which varies by only a few hours.
The most obvious aberration of the body rhythm usually occurs during sleep. Presumably, disruption of the REM (rapid eye movement)  stage of sleep results in that tired, irritable feeling. Some people are in the habit of taking sleeping pills which at times prove completely useless and may even cause headache, lethargy and depression. Coffea is a homoeopathic tranquilliser that helps such people.
Normally coffee causes sleeplessness, not from tossing, not from discomfort or pain, but from the sleeplessness of a brain too alter and wakeful, from pleasure or excitement or from mental stresse and activity. Coffea in 200 C potency five pills will help a passenger who has long hours of travel ahead of him and is in need of rest and sleep.
The general rule (with enormous personal variation)  is that it takes about a day of adjustment of each hour of time zone change. Thus, flying from one coat to another results in about three days of discomfort and adjustment for most people. If you are disciplined and can accomplish it, you might pre adapt for several days by going to bed an hour earlier for each hour lost if going East, or an hour later for each hour gained if going West.
Arnica Montana
This homoeopathic muscular relaxant if taken in 200 C potency, five pills three times a day to travel and five pills every two hours during your journey, will get rid of your tiredness, backache, body ache, pains in the legs, and so on. It would be a good idea if you continue taking Arnica for two or three days after your journey in order to be ready or fit for your work or holiday..
An intense dread of upward or downward motion that sometimes terminates in a vomit can be avoided by a medicine called Borax,. If taken in 200 C potency five pills three times a day prior to departure and five pills every two hours during the travel, it will help avoid air sickness, Borax also very use if you have a earache on account of upward or downward motion.
Sea sickness
Travelling by ship can be a really luxurious holiday for some people and a nightmare for others. Happily, there are certain medicines available which help in making your journey most exciting and comfortable. There are various symptoms of sea sickness. A Travellers may identify with one of the following, There is nausea and vomiting on motion and sinking felling in the pit of stomach. The nausea is much milder while on the deck, in fresh cool air. The face turns pale with a cold sweat all over the body, specially in the hands,loosing the clothes around the abdomen helps. At times, along with nausea there is also severe vertigo which turns worse on opening the eyes. Tabacum 1 m five pills every hour can be great help.
Cocculus
Severe nausea is caused by looking at the sea when the ship is in motion. There is a feeling of faintness with severe nausea, and due to you may not want to eat or drink or even smell food. Cocculus 200 C potency five pills every two hours, will help.
Bryonia
The indications for this are severe nausea while moving about on the ship,  though there is great relief if you lie still. The slightest movement of the body brings on the nausea once again. There is bursting, splitting Headache as if everything is being pressed out which is worse on stooping the eyes. A tight bandage around the head and darkness relieves the nausea and headache. The lips are parched and dry with dryness of the mouth, tongue and throat and excessive thirst. But the moment you drink something, a yellowish bilious fluid is vomited out. Yet, even vomiting does not give relief, the only thing that may bring relief is is Bryonia 1m, five pills every two hours, till you are completely well.
Theridion
This is specific for sea sickness when there is nausea vomiting and headache on motion and on closing the eyes, take Theridion 1 m potency five pills every two hours.
Car sickness
Some people are extremely sensetive to the smell of petrol. There is severe nausea with accumulation of water in the mouth. For them the remedy is Petroleum 30 c potency five pills four times a day one day prior to the journey, and five pills every two hours during the journey, will combat such nausea.. One last tip.
Persons with unusual medical problems or those taking special medications should check with their doctors regarding any special precautions that may be needed.