However, ginger works as well as the popular otc drug for nausea, so now you can have a tasty & inexpensive way to fight seasickness, etc without the drug side effects.
Did they check to see if an elastic band around an ankle or the head like a sweatband was effective? It isn’t necessarily purely placebo effect, the feeling of such a thing might help change the body’s responses simply by adding additional nervous system stimulus.
The second link does not work for me. Did they establish that the stimulus from the band is not a factor? They would have had to try a variety of means of providing stimulus to the wrist or other parts of the body to determine that.
A chiropractor told me my back was misaligned because I would sit on my wallet in my back pocket and it was too thick. He offered to thin it out for me.
“The scientific evidence behind this claim is wildly contradictory, though it overall suggests that maybe it can work a little bit…
-Studies of acupressure for nausea are often of low quality; they vary a lot, making comparisons between them difficult; and they are testing a pre-scientific belief system that claims that blockages in the flow of a mysterious life force down imaginary rivers in our bodies can be relieved by needling or pressure”.
It doesn’t sound impossible to me that a distracting stimulus might relieve an unpleasant symptom, just like whacking your thumb with a hammer could make you forget about your constipation, at least for awhile. And a wristband should be cheap enough.
Just don’t buy into the P6 acupuncture/pressure point nonsense, or expect long-term relief from any placebo therapy.
Yes, but also difficult to prove one way or another. Doctors are willing to play the placebo game with patients who want to try harmless treatments. They’ll say the same basic thing as with a placebo, that “some people find relief using the device but it hasn’t been proven to work”. Sometimes like in this study there are indications the device actually does work. How it works won’t matter much to a patient it works for.
Regardless, it’s claimed to work like other wristband devices touted for nausea - stimulation of the “P6 acupressure point”, which like other such points used in acupressure/acupuncture has not been shown to exist anatomically or physiologically.
Evidence on whether these products work continues to be mixed at best.
Slick marketing team that made sure to use the phrase “FDA cleared”.
Sure the FDA cleared it. Because it doesn’t contain any food or drugs. The FDA would clear a cancer curing propeller beanie also. Doesn’t mean it works. Just means it’s not harmful to wear.
Course the marketing team is preying on the uneducated who make the misassumption that “FDA cleared” somehow means “FDA tested as legitimate”.
" For many moderate-risk items in Class II, from catheters to powered wheelchairs, there’s FDA clearance. This designation essentially means that the manufacturer has shown their product to be similar enough to another product on the market—called a “predicate”—that the FDA decides it’s safe to OK."
I have a great granddaughter, two years old, who get carsick. I have bought an accu pressure armband called seaband. I didn’t really believe in it, but after several thousand kilometers, she has never been carsick when wearing the armband, but several times when not wearing it. I think she is to young for a placebo effekt and I have never told her why she wears the bands.
