Seasickness

(Nausea, vomiting and vertigo whilst travelling in a ship, car or carriage)

Petroleum

Specific for seasickness. The patient suffers from violent nausea and vomiting with vertigo and occipital headache. Nausea from riding in a carriage.

Apomorphia

Vomiting of cerebral origin. Use in 30 dilution or higher.

Tabacum

Worse from least motion and better on deck in fresh cold air, but with characteristic symptoms of pallor, cold sweat and coldness, especially of the hands.

Staphisagria

For seasickness in nervous persons. It should be taken at the moment when dizziness and nausea commenced before vomiting sets in.

Cocculus Ind

When riding in a carriage. Caused by swinging.

Theridion

Seasickness. For nervous women who shut their eyes to get rid of the motion of the ship.

Pulsatilla

Better in open air on deck but gets seasickness as soon as enters the room. Temperamentally cheerful but easily affected to tears; thirstlessness.

Borax

Nausea and vomiting with its red-line symptom "dread of downward motion." The downward motion of the ship or carriage brings on nausea and vomiting.

Bryonia

When the patient feels better by lying down quiet. Every disturbance, even offering of medicine aggravates his trouble.

Coffea

Continued sickness at stomach with headache, constant inclination to vomit felt in throat, vomiting of mucus with violent attacks of migraine.