Nursing and External Applications for Loss of Appetite, Nausea, Vomiting

Loss of appetite

• Ginger tea or ginger water (drink on an empty stomach)
  has a warming effect in the deeper areas of the metabolism, very helpful during chemotherapy as well (1).

Particularly suitable for morphine-induced nausea and loss of appetite, which are often accompanied by dry mouth and fatigue:

• Lemon juice or grapefruit juice
  The fruit acid has a special effect on the activity of the soul body, both through its refreshing taste and through the stimulation of salivary secretion.
  
  
• Teas containing bitter substances, e.g., wormwood tea
  
  
• Yarrow tea liver compress at midday
  For instructions, see:
  http://www.pflege-vademecum.de/schafgarben_leberwickel.php?locale=en
  
  
• Abdominal compress with Oxalis Folium 20% tincture WELEDA
  For instructions, see:
  http://www.pflege-vademecum.de/oxalis_essenz_bauchwickel.php?locale=en
  
  
• Abdominal embrocation with Oxalis, Folium 10% ointment WELEDA

Nausea and vomiting

• Eat small meals, eat with upright posture.
  
  
• Provide good smells, air the room.
  
  
• Lemon juice: a few drops to 1 tbsp. several times a day or suck a slice of lemon for prophylaxis and therapy of morphine-induced nausea (see also “Loss of appetite”).

For nausea induced by chemotherapy or morphine (see also “Loss of appetite”) (2):

• Ginger tea or ginger sticks
  
  
• Treat the feet: movement, embrocation, foot reflexology massage (approximately in the middle of the arch of the right foot).
  
  
• Yarrow tea liver compress at midday
  For instructions, see:
  http://www.pflege-vademecum.de/schafgarben_leberwickel.php?locale=en
  
  
• Chamomile abdominal compress
  has an antispasmodic effect in cases of vomiting.
  
  
• Melissa oil abdominal compress with Melissa oil WALA (Ingredients: Carvi aetheroleum, Foeniculi amari fructus aetheroleum, Melissa officinalis ex herba 5%, Origanum majorana ex herba 5%) has a relaxing, warming effect (see also: http://www.pflege-vademecum.de/2714.php?locale=en).