Helix Clinic blog

Most people have seen the acupressure travel bands that you can buy to help prevent travel-sickness. Unfortunately most of the diagrams that come with these bands don’t give a good indication of exactly where the point is meant to be.

The point is found on the inside of the wrist, about two fingers’ width up the arm from the wrist crease. If you press firmly with your thumb between the two tendons that can be found on the midline of the inner arm  and slide your thumb slowly towards the wrist crease, you should bump up against some bones about 2 or 3 cm before you reach the crease.  If you massage the point on the wrist just in front of the bones you may feel a dull achy sensation. You should press firmly but not too hard.

This point is called ‘nei guan’, or ‘inner gate’, or ‘pericardium 6′, and is a great empirical point to help dispel nausea. It’s location is normally 2 or 3cm in from the wrist crease, at the junction of the radius and ulna bones, between the two prominent tendons on the inside of the arm.

Tags: acupuncture point, nausea