Motion sickness, in Aajonus's framework, is defined precisely and specifically:
Aajonus's Definition
Motion sickness, in Aajonus's framework, is defined precisely and specifically:
"MOTION SICKNESS is intense nausea caused by involuntary constant fluctuations of the fluids in the inner ear, as experienced in the motion of an airplane, boat or car."
Aajonus Vonderplanitz
This definition is grounded in the physical mechanics of the inner ear fluids rather than in any notion of a "condition" to be suppressed with drugs. The nausea that arises from motion sickness is, in Aajonus's broader terrain framework, the body's signal that the fluctuation of inner ear fluids has triggered the stomach's natural toxin-response mechanism. The nausea component of motion sickness is understood in exactly the same framework as all other forms of nausea: the body is either being signaled to neutralize or expel something caustic, or the repeated sensory disorientation is causing the neurological system to initiate that same response.
Aajonus treats the nausea of motion sickness as a physiological event with a direct, specific remedy, not a malfunction of the body but a predictable response to an environmental stimulus (constant involuntary fluid movement in the inner ear).
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Root Cause
The root cause of motion sickness, as Aajonus defines it, is the involuntary and constant fluctuation of the fluids in the inner ear produced by the movement of an airplane, boat, or car. This is distinct from other causes of dizziness or nausea that he discusses at length elsewhere, such as the dizziness caused by chemical or pharmaceutical poisoning of the nerves, dizziness from low blood sugar in diabetic or extreme-fasting states, or nausea caused by toxins dumping from bodily tissues into the stomach.
Motion sickness is not attributed in the source material to nutritional deficiency, toxin dumping, or microbial activity. It is presented as a mechanical phenomenon, the inner ear's fluid system is being disturbed by external motion, and this signals the body to produce nausea.
This positions motion sickness within Aajonus's framework as a condition that can be rapidly addressed through the correct food remedies that stabilize the nervous system and inner ear fluid environment, rather than requiring a long healing arc.
Aajonus also connects general nausea broadly, in any context, to the stomach's role in neutralizing threats:
"Usually the nausea sets off the stomach to produce hydrochloric acid and bind with the poisons. Then the nausea will go away once enough hydrochloric acid is produced and neutralizes the poisons."
Aajonus Vonderplanitz
While this specific mechanism is applied to toxin-induced nausea, it forms the backdrop for understanding why stabilizing the stomach chemistry rapidly helps in any nausea state, including motion sickness. The specific remedy he provides for motion sickness targets the inner ear fluid environment directly.
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Why This Happens
Motion sickness fits primarily within the "How to Live" and "Root Cause / Terrain Theory" of his framework.
It is not a detoxification condition, it is an acute, environmentally triggered mechanical disturbance. However, because the nausea component overlaps with the broader category of nausea-as-toxin-response in Aajonus's system, there is a secondary relationship to the Detoxification.
The remedy he prescribes is immediate and food-based, making it a "How to Live" practical protocol, something a person on the Primal Diet should know how to address in real time during travel. It belongs to the category of acute remedies rather than long-term dietary correction.
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Symptoms Reframed
The primary symptom of motion sickness, intense nausea, is not reframed as a problem to be suppressed but is understood as the body's predictable response to inner ear fluid fluctuation creating disorientation and triggering the stomach's nausea response.
Aajonus's broader framework on nausea applies here as context:
"NAUSEA is the result of toxins dumping into the stomach to be neutralized or vomited."
Aajonus Vonderplanitz
And from the workshops:
"Usually the nausea sets off the stomach to produce hydrochloric acid and bind with the poisons. Then the nausea will go away once enough hydrochloric acid is produced and neutralizes the poisons. Then it just passes the stuff through and it hits the intestines."
Aajonus Vonderplanitz
In the context of motion sickness, the nausea is not caused by toxin dumping per se, but the body's physiological response to inner ear fluid disruption produces the same signal cascade. The remedy targets the stabilization of this signal.
Aajonus does not reinterpret motion sickness symptoms as "good" detoxification in the way he reframes other symptomatic states. It is presented as a condition that is unnecessary to endure and that has a direct, practical, food-based solution.
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Food Protocol
Aajonus provides a precise formula for motion sickness:
Primary Remedy, The Motion Sickness Blend:
"Drinking a blend of 6 ounces warm good mineral water, the fresh juice of..."
Aajonus Vonderplanitz
(Note: The source text is cut off at this point in the provided passage, but it begins: "Drinking a blend of 6 ounces warm good mineral water, the fresh juice of", indicating a specific juice ingredient follows that is not captured in the provided excerpt.)
What is fully confirmed in the source: - 6 ounces of warm, good mineral water, the water is to be warm, not cold, and it is specifically "good mineral water," which in Aajonus's framework means naturally occurring mineral-rich water, not distilled or highly processed water - It is blended with fresh juice of something, the specific ingredient follows in the book but is not complete in the provided excerpt - The delivery method is drinking this blend
Secondary Nausea Protocol (applicable to motion sickness nausea):, for nausea generally:
"Drinking ½ cup unheated honey mixed with ¼ cup naturally sparkling mineral water helps ease nausea. The next best remedy is drinking the fresh juice of 1 lemon mixed with 4 tablespoons unheated honey and ¼ cup good mineral water."
Aajonus Vonderplanitz
Formula 1, Primary Nausea Remedy: - ½ cup unheated honey - ¼ cup naturally sparkling mineral water - Mixed together and drunk
Formula 2, Second Best Nausea Remedy: - Fresh juice of 1 lemon - 4 tablespoons unheated honey - ¼ cup good mineral water - Mixed together and drunk
Formula 3, For Frequent or Persistent Nausea:
"When experiencing frequent nausea, eating a little no-salt-added raw cheese with an equal quantity of raw fat, especially unsalted raw butter, and a little unheated honey will absorb toxins that dumped into the stomach."
Aajonus Vonderplanitz
Quantities for this formula, from the workshop context:
"Every time you get nauseous, you take a little sugar cube amount of cheese, sugar cube sized amount of cheese. Take it every 10 to 20 minutes until the nausea stops."
Aajonus Vonderplanitz
So for ongoing nausea (including the nausea of sustained motion sickness on a long journey): - Sugar cube-sized amount of no-salt-added raw cheese - Equal amount of unsalted raw butter - Small amount of unheated honey - Repeat every 10 to 20 minutes until nausea stops
The Cheese Mechanism Explained by Aajonus:
"The body uses cheese as a sponge. It draws. The magnetism of it is so great that it draws the poisons as the blood, the neurological system and the lymph make their way through all of the digestive system to the pancreas. The cheese draws those poisons out and locks onto it like a sponge. It passes it through without digestion."
Aajonus Vonderplanitz
And from the same source:
"So by taking them to that, I found that if I had them eating cheese, as long as they were nauseous... as long as you're nauseous, you keep eating a little piece of cheese. Keep doing it."
Aajonus Vonderplanitz
For People with Constant Nausea (including anyone prone to motion sickness):
Aajonus recommends a preparatory approach using cheese and butter taken before meals as a preventive stomach-lining strategy:
"For people who have constant nausea that's a sign that their body is dumping poisons into the stomach frequently. For them I suggest making a cheesecake fill with no crust, no topping, it's mainly just butter and cheese, tiny bit of honey or no honey, or eating an equal amount of cheese and butter together 10 minutes before every meal except the juice. So what will happen is cheese and butter go in the stomach, starts dumping those poisons into the cheese and butter absorbs it."
Aajonus Vonderplanitz
This suggests that for someone prone to motion sickness who knows they will be traveling, eating raw cheese and unsalted raw butter together, 10 minutes before travel begins, may help prepare the stomach to manage the nausea response from inner ear fluid disruption.
Temperature of the Mineral Water:
In the motion sickness formula specifically, Aajonus specifies warm mineral water, not cold, not room temperature. This is consistent with his broader understanding that warm liquids are gentler on the stomach and digestive tissues.
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What to Avoid
- i
While the source material does not enumerate specific avoidances exclusively for motion sickness, the following can be derived from Aajonus's framework:
- iiCooked foods during or before travel:
Aajonus states broadly:
- iii
> "Eating cooked food only keeps those toxins in the body and adds to the toxins, so that eventually no matter what you eat, you will detoxify those poisons. More people eating cooked foods have nausea and diarrhea than people who eat Primal Diet foods."
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This implies that people eating cooked foods are more vulnerable to intense nausea, including motion sickness nausea, because their bodies are already managing higher levels of stored toxins.
- vAnti-nausea medications (pharmaceutical):
Consistent with Aajonus's overall rejection of pharmaceutical intervention, conventional motion sickness drugs (antihistamines, scopolamine patches, etc.) would fall into the category of substances that suppress symptoms, add industrial chemicals to the body, and prevent the natural resolution of the condition. He states in the broader context of symptom management:
- vi
> "Sabotaging symptoms with drugs puts a person in greater danger of disease, suffering and early death."
- viiCold water:
The motion sickness formula specifically calls for warm mineral water, implying cold water is not appropriate for this application.
- viiiFruit and high-sugar foods before travel:
From Aajonus's general guidance on managing nausea and unstable blood sugar, fruit creates rapid blood sugar fluctuations that destabilize the nervous system and can worsen nausea states.
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Recovery Timeline
Motion sickness in Aajonus's framework is an acute condition, not a chronic one. The remedy is designed to work rapidly, the timeline is the duration of travel itself.
The honey-mineral water blend is designed to ease nausea as it occurs. The cheese-and-butter protocol taken every 10 to 20 minutes is designed to progressively absorb whatever is triggering the nausea response in the stomach, with the expectation that nausea subsides as the stomach stabilizes.
There is no long-term recovery timeline for motion sickness itself, it resolves when the motion stimulus stops or when the inner ear fluids stabilize, assisted by the food remedies.
However, Aajonus's framework implies that someone with healthier, better-nourished nerve tissue and more stabilized inner ear fluid composition (achieved through long-term Primal Diet eating) would be less susceptible to severe motion sickness than someone whose nerves and tissues are laden with industrial chemicals and poor nutrition.
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Questions Aajonus Answered
- The following exchanges from Aajonus's seminars address closely related nausea states and the principles Aajonus applies to all nausea, which directly inform his motion sickness protocol:
On the general mechanism of nausea:
- From a seminar exchange about intestinal flu causing ongoing gas:
> Q: "I had a flu a couple of weeks ago and ever since then I've had lots of gas and I'm wondering if that's a sign of anything when you have a lot of gas and if there's a particular thing that's good to do. Was this an intestinal flu? No, it wasn't. Where was it? Oh, actually it was. I was nauseous and I had a headache and I was dizzy." > > A [Aajonus]: "Okay. That is a sign that the intestines have been breaking down compounds that are in the tissues and dumping into the system. So it could be related to, let's say, plaquing in the intestine and dead tissue is there and it breaks off and as it breaks off and starts dissolving, guess what happens? Like any chemical reaction, you'll have gas that's a result of it."
- On nausea from detox vs. nausea from food:
> "Usually the nausea sets off the stomach to produce hydrochloric acid and bind with the poisons. Then the nausea will go away once enough hydrochloric acid is produced and neutralizes the poisons. Then it just passes the stuff through and it hits the intestines. Now, it's still pretty caustic even if you don't have diarrhea with it. But you don't always have to vomit just because you have nausea. But it could be a preferable way to send it out of the body."
- On the cheese protocol for ongoing nausea (written Q&A):
> Q: "...I would vomit when I'm not as nauseous but when I get extremely nauseous I can't vomit and it causes diarrhea instead. The sad thing is that I can't seem to control this at all... I ALWAYS eat a bite of cheese before I put ANYTHING into my mouth. I think this helps with the nausea..." > > A [Aajonus]: "Continue eating cheese because it is removing toxins that cause nausea; you simply are dumping those toxins constantly."
- And further:
> "If you do not gain the weight, it will take longer to reduce the poisons that cause nausea."
- On the sponge-like action of cheese for nausea:
> "Indians, everybody knew this, they've got bitterness, if you get bit by a snake or any other creature, the poison went right to the stomach because what does the stomach do? It draws. The cheese draws those poisons out and locks onto it like a sponge."
- On what nausea always means:
> "Nausea, also, is always detoxification, the pre-vomit stage that signals an individual that poisons have dumped into the stomach or have been eaten."
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How this condition connects to the rest of the platform
Terrain Theory, and Raw Food.