When you feel Nausea, everything else in your life comes to a halt. Whether you are trying to get a report done at work or concentrate on your daughter’s ballet recital, if you are feeling nauseous, it is pretty much impossible to focus on anything but the rumblings of your stomach.

While there are a number of chemical medicines designed to help people who suffer from nausea, most of these medicines come with a variety of sometimes serious side effects for your long term health. While nausea can be a symptom of a more serious health problem, other times it is a relative benign symptom that simply causes discomfort.

Why would you want to treat a relatively simply health problem with potentially dangerous medicines for nausea when a completely natural and organic alternative exists? There are a number of Essential oils for nausea that can help treat your feelings of motion sickness, morning sickness, sea sickness, or other common causes of nausea.

There are a number of different essential oils for nausea, but you need to know exactly what is causing your nausea before you decide on a product to use. Below we look at some of the most common causes of nausea and name a few essential oils for each cause of nausea.

4 Common Causes Of Nausea

1. Morning Sickness

Morning sickness is a common symptom that most pregnant women will feel, especially during the first trimester of their pregnancy. While many women will understandably want to be careful regarding what types of medicines, natural or otherwise, they use to treat their morning sickness symptoms, there are a number of different essential oils for nausea caused by morning sickness that don’t cause any sort of effect for the fetus they are carrying.

Lemon oil, to name just one example, has been used to help treat women who suffer from serious cases of morning sickness. One clinical study even found that regular inhalation of essential lemon oil helped women decrease the severity of morning sickness related nausea.

2. Motion Sickness

Most children, and even adults, will at one time or another feel some sort of motion sickness as the result of the movement associated with being in a car. The feeling nausea that comes with motion sickness is often frustrating, because especially on long trips, you might continue to feel sick to your stomach for long periods of time until the car ride ends.

One recent study by the University of Maryland found that peppermint essential oil has the ability to relax your stomach muscles. Nausea associated with motion sickness comes about because of the tightening of the stomach muscles. Thus, inhaling peppermint oil, or using a diffuser so that your car smells of peppermint is one way to both prevent and treat motion sickness for children and adults alike.

3. Seasickness

Imagine being on a two week long cruise and finding out on the first day that your stomach simply cannot take the slow movement of the ship caused by the waves. Instead of being miserable for the next two weeks, there are a number of essential oils that you could take to treat your seasickness.

Basil essential oil is one of the top natural, alternative remedies for nausea caused by seasickness. As an added benefit, your room on the cruise ship will smell like an authentic Italian restaurant!

4. General Nausea

There are dozens of different health problems that can cause feelings of nausea. Besides morning sickness, motion sickness, and seasickness, one of the most common causes of a general feeling of nausea is due to problems with indigestion.

For nausea that is accompanied by an upset stomach, bloating, or stomach cramps, one of the best natural remedies is to combine ginger and lavender essential oils together with a carrier oil, such as coconut or grapeseed oil and massage your stomach. The benefits from this essential oil massage blend are double: it will help to soothe your stomach through contact while the aroma will also be inhaled and help to calm your feelings of nausea.

How to use Essential Oils for Nausea Relief

There are a number of different ways to use the aroma essence of the plants to treat your nausea. You can simply add a few drops of an essential oil such as lavender or peppermint to a cloth and inhale it. There are also essential oil diffusers that will allow you to impregnate a room in your home with the health benefits of a certain essential oil.

Where to Buy Essential Oils

The alternative medicine movement is growing every day and essential oils are a major part of that growth. Because of an increase in popularity, you can find numerous essential oil providers on the internet.

One of the most important things to consider when choosing a supplier is to make sure that they offer pure, unadulterated (unmixed, pure) essential oils. Several companies market a product as an essential oil when it is heavily diluted with alcohol or other filler oils.

10 Best Essential Oils for Nausea

Below are the Top 10 essential oils for nausea. These types of oils will help you soothe the feelings of nausea you have been experiencing. It’s important to mention – all of these providers promise you 100% unadulterated essential oils.

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1. Peppermint Oil

This is by far and wide the most common type of essential oil used for treating nausea and upset stomachs. One of the unique benefits of this type of oil is that it can even be ingested when heavily diluted in water or juices.

2. Lavender Oil

Lavender essential oil is great for feelings of upset stomach and nausea, especially when inhaled with a diffuser. You can also rub a few drops just below your stomach for topical relief that will soothe your stomach.

3. Ginger Oil

This root plant is known for a number of health enhancing properties, and the essential oil for ginger can also help to cure nausea. It contains gingerol which is a natural remedy for upset stomachs.

4. Lemon Oil

This essential oil has antispasmodic properties meaning that it is a great option for people who suffer from stomach cramps that lead to feelings of nausea.

5. Cannabis Oil

While this product is still classified as a Schedule 1 Agent by the U.S. Government, it has been proven to help people suffering from nausea caused by chemotherapy and other serious and chronic conditions. Some states now allow for its use for both recreational and medicinal purposes.

6. Coriander Oil

Coriander is great as a salad dressing, and it also is great for indigestion and nausea. The essential oil contains phytonutrients and iron that can help to soothe an upset stomach.

7. Chamomile Oil

While chamomile tea is the more common way to use this herb to help calm a stomach, the essential oil is also a great option as inhaling the aroma can help to loosen your stomach muscles and get rid of excess gasses.

8. Spearmint Oil

Everyone loves the aroma of spearmint. As an added benefit of diffusing this natural essential oil in your home you can also help to prevent nausea.

9. Fennel Oil

Fennel has a lot of phytoestrogens which is known to help digestion, especially in women. This essential oil, then, is a great option for women suffering from morning sickness.

10. Anise Oil

Similar to fennel oil, anise oil has a unique aroma that helps with digestion and can calm an upset stomach and feelings of nausea.

Further reading:

• The Importance Of Gut Health
• A Beginners Guide to Understanding Essential Oils

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