End Parkinson’s Nausea Naturally: Clinical Insights

Nausea is a challenging symptom of Parkinson’s disease that can make life pretty miserable. In our decades helping people resolve a range of variable digestive issues, we’ve discovered a few handy, simple ways to manage nausea, that can make eating more pleasurable and ensure you keep your weight on.

Read on for our favourite Parkinson’s Nausea treatments, simplified and adapted specifically to Parkinson’s patients.

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Treating Nausea starts with understanding your case

All our treatments and natural remedies start with a thorough understand of your unique set of health challenges and Parkinson’s symptoms, to gain a deep understanding the cause. This allows the approach to be be far more effective than a generic, NHS-type approach.

If you experience nausea, you may be struggling with one of the three key causes:

1. Medication side effects (particularly levodopa and dopamine agonists)

2. Delayed gastric emptying (gastroparesis)

3. Chronic constipation and gut dysmotility

3 Key Causes of Parkinson’s Nausea

• Medication-related nausea may improve by adjusting dose and meal timing

  Gastric motility issues may mimic medication side effects

• Constipation can significantly slow overall gut transit, feeding back into delayed gastric emptying and persistent nausea.

Recognising which mechanism is at play is essential to selecting the right intervention.

The two best nausea home remedies for Parkinson’s

1. Ginger

   • Excellent for Parkinson’s patients as ginger also helps the gut move better. Very helpful for constipation (mild, but often effective), for gastric upset and indigestion.

   • Ginger Juice: Juice fresh ginger root (circa 1-2cm) in a juicer with apple and half to a whole Lime or Lemon

   • Ginger sweets: Eat as a chew or sweet (careful with teeth!). We absolutely love these ginger chews for their taste and portability (they come individually wrapped). Also comes in bigger packets, but note that they can be expensive. Note that we would not recommend chewing them unless you have solid teeth as they are delicious and very chewy indeed :). Choose the hard candy version if you’re worried, or the crystallised ginger.

   • Ginger Tea: Ready made teabags are generally strong enough to be therapeutic, but don’t forget to let it cool down somewhat to avoid burning your oesophagus or stomach lining. You can also chop fresh ginger root finely and pour hot water on it to make tea.

   • Use a one or a combination of all three to suit your lifestyle and finances.

2. Peppermint

   • Tea after meals: We recommend a strong one like Teapigs (one teabag usually enough for two mugs of tea)

   • OR for a more affordable version, loose tea leaves such as this one

   • Therapeutic: As well as nausea, peppermint is great at reducing reducing cramping and bloating. If you experience acid reflux however, note that for some types of reflux it may worsen the symptoms. Ask us or trial it.

Other Simple Home Remedies

• Fresh lemon juice – squeeze half a lemon in cold or warm water. Room temperature works best in the cooler months.

• Dry crackers – our choice is to use a healthier wholegrain Scandinavian style ye bread, avoiding white flour that can be constipating and processed. Our favourite is THIS one, or the slightly less burned version HERE , or THIS. If you want more suggestions that work better for you in terms of purchasing or consuming, get in touch with us.

• Avoid very hot or very cold food or drinks, unless on very hot summer days

• Protein and Fat – if the cause of the nausea is slow emptying of the stomach, it may help to reduce the protein and fat content of the food. Both slow emptying, and in particular animal protein. Small amounts with each meal tends to help.

Addressing Constipation

Constipation is one of the most significant yet overlooked contributors to nausea in Parkinson’s. Improving bowel regularity — through hydration, dietary fibre (flax, chia, vegetables), magnesium, or motility-focused protocols — often has a direct impact on nausea severity.

Our Thoughts on Generic Recommendations

Patients are often recommended to Eat Smaller, more frequent meals - however we don’t always recommend this. This type of advise needs to be personalised. Snacking or very frequent meals can have other digestive and metabolic consequences, so get in touch with us to get more clarity. .

Clinical Perspective

Nausea in Parkinson’s disease is rarely resolved by a single food or supplement. A structured approach is required — beginning with identifying whether the primary driver is medication-related, motility-related, or linked to constipation. This root-cause framework is central to our work at Neurospan.

By clarifying the mechanism behind the symptom, we can provide targeted strategies that do more than mask nausea. This approach not only reduces discomfort but also supports medication absorption, nutritional status, and quality of daily life.

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