Acupuncture for Morning Sickness

Acupuncture is the most highly respected and ancient technique of TMC or traditional Chinese medicine of all traditional alternative therapies, with a history of more that 3000 years. Acupuncture needles are inserted into the acupoints of your body, depending on the nature and history of your morning sickness. Depending upon the severity of your morning sickness, some recommend four to six weeks of treatment. Acupuncture may involve inserting needles into the Pericardium 6 acupoint of your forearm for about 15 minutes; however, you should only be treated by a trained practitioner.

Acupuncture Relieves Morning Sickness

Various studies show acupuncture as providing relief for those who suffer from morning sickness. BBC News Online reports that one Australian study shows the ancient Chinese technique of acupuncture bringing ease from nausea and vomiting for nearly 600 participants of expectant mothers. Adelaide University researchers report in the American journal Birth that these women being less than 14 weeks pregnant, received sessions of four weeks of 20-minute weekly acupuncture treatments. The majority of their symptoms were no longer present by their second week. The 3/1/02 BBC says as many as eighty percent of women suffers morning sickness during early pregnancy. In October 2000 the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management conveys the beneficial effects of acupuncture. They found that by applying acupuncture to the PC6 or Pericardium 6 acupoint eases the symptoms of nausea and morning sickness for women.

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