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Old Apr 4, 2010 | 8:01 pm
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sbagal
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Originally Posted by troyb
My mom gets pretty bad motion sickness and swears by this thing.

Personally, I don't get how it could work, but it does for her - imagined or otherwise.
It allegedly follows the principles of acupuncture, which remains a mystery but plenty of valid justification it works ....... somehow. Same as the principle behind the wrist bands, but juiced up a bit with electronic stimulation rather than acupuncture needles.

There are several operating versions for acupuncture: touch, needles and heat being a few of them. Now electrical stimulation?

These bands were recently "officially" recommended by our tech enrichment lecturers who reviewed travel technology products they found worked for them, and this was one of them.

My worry about Bonine is that it can dry out the upper respiratory tract and just might make someone more vulnerable to upper respiratory infections. Don't know if this is true, but a worry about taking any "medicine" if there are non-medical options that can help almost as well. Time to do a little more research here.
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