Using acupressure to relieve side effects

[CrimpJiggler]

Since you don't need anything to test out acupressure, I decided to give it a try. I tried using it to relieve nausea. The point for relieving nausea is on the wrist, look it up on youtube to see where it is. I pressed down on the point on my left wrist, and nothing. Then I tried it on my right wrist and after about 30 seconds the nausea was gone. Now about 3 minutes later its back again. I don't know whether it was a coincidence or what. Gonna keep experimenting. Has anyone here tested this out?

 

[xx001]

Coincidence. Nausea is highly susceptible to conscious psychological factors like smells, images, tastes, strong emotions, etc., so it's hard to get any idea as to what all is going on. Acupuncture/acupressure doesn't have good evidence going for it. Studies have found it to be equally effective as placebo.(usually poking someone with a toothpick, or at non-acupuncture points) There may be some benefit to poking the skin for pain, but the mechanisms that are supposedly behind the theory of acupuncture, like chi and meridians and such, are total bullshit.

 

[Achten]

Coincidence. Nausea is highly susceptible to conscious psychological factors like smells, images, tastes, strong emotions, etc., so it's hard to get any idea as to what all is going on. Acupuncture/acupressure doesn't have good evidence going for it. Studies have found it to be equally effective as placebo.(usually poking someone with a toothpick, or at non-acupuncture points) There may be some benefit to poking the skin for pain, but the mechanisms that are supposedly behind the theory of acupuncture, like chi and meridians and such, are total bullshit.

I can't help the OP but this comment seems a bit off. I won't go into detail right now but "total bullshit" is definetly untrue.

 

[sekio]

There's not a lot of evidence for any of the shit accupressure is based on (no evidence for 'chi', meridians etc) - just some observations that if you poke people it reduces nausea. Even then... why not ginger root?

According to Quackwatch acupressure is a dubious practice, and practitioners may "use irrational diagnostic methods to reach diagnoses that do not correspond to scientific concepts of health and disease".

Doesn't make me want to run out and start TCM treatments.

 

[CrimpJiggler]

For decades Western doctors believed that meditation is nothing more than a relaxation technique, its only with advances in neuroimaging techniques that prove what monks and yogies had been saying (that meditation alters the physiology and structure of the brain). Quackwatch is riddled with bullshit, I wouldn't assign any credibility to that site. As for evidence of acupuncture, I read a few studies, the last one I read showed that the group receiving acupuncture treatment only had a slightly higher percentage of relief than those receiving the sham treatment. Whats interesting is that the real and placebo group had a way higher percentage of relief than those receiving conventional pain treatment. Do people have that much faith in acupuncture that it can produce such a high placebo response? If the patients were all from China I suppose that makes sense. Something extremely illogical about most peoples view on placebo is that if a therapeutic effect is produced by a placebo response, it should not be utilised. A therapeutic effect is a therapeutic effect. We have no idea how much of conventional medicines efficacy is attributed to the placebo effect, heres an interesting article:
http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all