Naturopathic Doctor

Want to avoid using medication for motion sickness?  I find it’s often necessary to combine natural treatments, so try using these strategies together:

Look outside and ahead

Have your kids look constantly ahead (not to the sides), outside the car at the environment, rather than inside the car.  This creates balance between their eyes and organs within the inner ear, which helps prevent the motion sickness.

The inner ears respond to the car’s movement and so if a child’s eyes focus within the car, as the car moves or goes around a corner, the brain receives one type of signal from the ears and another type of signal from the eyes, about where it is in space.  These differing signals to the brain leads to the nausea.

Keep the kids looking outside and ahead by playing games identifying certain types of cars or special license plates.  That means, avoid reading and playing computer games, which brings the focus back inside the vehicle.  It may help to have them sit in the front seat as it’s best to look ahead rather than to the sides.

SeaBands

Try Seabands for Children which work for many kids.  It’s a wrist band that uses acupressure to stimulate specific areas of the wrist’s nerves to prevent nausea. Research shows they are more effective when the that wrist area is moved around so don’t have them sit completely still.  Interestingly this spot on the wrist corresponds to the acupuncture point used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for treating nausea.
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Banana Cake - this time I put some plums on top

This is my favourite banana cake recipe. It is incredibly simple and feels great to eat a second helping guilt free.

I’m certainly not suggesting you replace your Christmas pudding but here is a healthy suggestion for one of your holiday meals.

Recipe below:

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Healthy and tasty soup with lots of Greens

Ever wonder if there was any way to make kale taste good?  Try this soup.

Recipe below:

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Do you experience?

• sneezing
• running nose
• swelling of the nasal tissues
• itchy eyes and tearing
• nasal polyps
• swelling in the ear

These symptoms are all common in allergic rhinitis.  Hay fever is the common term for allergic rhinitis due to seasonal spread of pollens in the air, but the condition is not necessarily seasonal and can result from other irritants besides pollen.

If you wonder whether your symptoms could be due to pollen, one way to check is to see the pollen calendar on this link and determine if there is a pattern to your symptoms.  Do they seen to start around a particular season? If you do think pollen is the culprit, try Weleda’s Mixed Pollen 30 during the specific pollen seasons.

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DEPRESSION

Books:

• Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression by L. Wolpert
• Harriet Lerner, PhD PsychologyHas written a series of books on different topics: anger, fear, intimacy, and many others
• Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel By Changing the Way You Think by Christine A Padesky, Dennis Greenberger
• Overcoming Depression by Paul Gilbert
• The Depression Workbook: A Guide for Living with Depression and Manic Depression by Mary Ellen Copeland, Matthew McKay

 Videos:

• TED Talks under the “What Makes Us Happy” Theme (One particularly interesting video is on Positive Psychology)

Books:

• Healing with Whole Foods:  Asian Traditions with Modern Nutrition by Paul Pitchford.  This is a book about using Traditional Chinese Medicine to choose the foods best suited to your health.

YOUTH

Websites:

• Battlefront is an incredible resource for young people who would like to become involved in making their community and the world a better place.

TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE

Books:

• The Web That Has No Weaver by Ted J. Kaptchuk.  This is a book about understanding the philosophy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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