A new study says Acupressure wristbands can help cancer patients get 25% less nausea during radiation treatment. Wristbands put pressure on a “nausea point” identified by traditional Chinese acupuncture. The pressure acts to change the flow of universal chi energy, according to the Eastern belief. The study found that 88 people who experienced nausea after radiation treatments for cancer. Some were given wristbands to wear, and the others were not. And about half of those in the wristband group were also given information that explicitly said the wristbands cut down on nausea, whereas handouts given to the others with wristbands contained more neutral information. Those with wristbands experienced a 24 percent decrease in nausea, regardless of which set of information they were given before the experiment. The group without wristbands reported just a 5 percent lessening of nausea.