The phrase "alleviate nausea" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing methods or treatments aimed at reducing feelings of nausea.
Example: "The doctor prescribed medication to alleviate nausea during the chemotherapy treatment."
Alternatives: "ease nausea" or "relieve nausea".
I have H.I.V. and use cannabis to alleviate nausea and lack of appetite.
(Marijuana has been shown to alleviate nausea, neuropathy, pain and insomnia, and to stimulate appetite).
Specifically they said medicinal marijuana could help curb weight loss in AIDS patients, alleviate nausea induced by chemotherapy in cancer patients, treat glaucoma and ease chronic pain associated with multiple sclerosis.
He also provided free Internet access to AIDS patients in the Philadelphia region and ran an underground buyers' club that supplied marijuana free to patients who found that it helped alleviate nausea from their other treatments.
Chemotherapy can wreak havoc on blood sugar levels, and glucocorticoids, which are widely prescribed to alleviate nausea in cancer patients, promote insulin resistance, said Dr. Lorraine L. Lipscombe of Women's College Hospital in Toronto.
These patients are typically prescribed medical marijuana to help manage chronic pain and to alleviate nausea, loss of appetite, and other unpleasant symptoms from diseases like cancer and AIDS.
They were found to be useful in lowering internal eye pressure in persons suffering from glaucoma and in alleviating nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapeutic drugs used to treat cancer patients and those with AIDS.
Before Mirataz, a veterinarian prescribed a human approved dosage of the active ingredient mirtazapine, which increases the level of serotonin in the brain, and balances the activity of serotonin in the gastro-intestinal tract, thus alleviating nausea and appetite loss.
The condition is especially puzzling considering cannabis' accepted reputation as an anti-nausea agent; two cannabinoid-based medications are FDA-approved for alleviating nausea in people undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, while nausea is a common reason for doctors to prescribe cannabis in states that have legalized medical marijuana.
Smoking marijuana, for example, can alleviate the nausea associated with cancer chemotherapy and the wasting syndrome associated with AIDS.
During his bout with cancer, he smoked the illegal drug to alleviate the nausea associated with his medical treatments.
