Fighiting Jet Lag or Motion Sickness?

A very common problem with people who travel on long flights, say from India-US-India. Here are some good remedies for Jet Lag and Motion Sickness...

Jet lag
The irritability and insomnia characteristic of jet lag are caused by your body trying to reset its internal biological clock to a different schedule. The hormone melatonin may be helpful for combating jet lag. I suggest taking half a milligram to 1 milligram one hour before you want to go to sleep for several days upon your destination arrival. Combination formulas containing sedative herbs may also be useful. Examples of sedative herbs are as follows: Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata), Chamomile (Matricaria recutita), Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) or Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora). Caution to those taking conventional medications, drug-herb interactions may occur.

Motion sickness
Fennel seeds are a must have for any travel kit. Whether it's to ease nausea from motion sickness or to calm spasms from eating irritating foods, chewing on a handful of seeds will help with many digestive ailments, and they taste good too. If traveling with children, candied ginger is also a nice digestive aid for motion sickness or tummy aches.


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