The Effectiveness of acupressure therapy on decreasing complaints of nausea and vomiting in pregnant women

Nausea vomiting or emesis gravidarum is a physiological complaint, but if the nausea vomiting complaint is not resolved quickly, it will cause this pathological, namely
hyperemesis gravidarum. So that every meal and drink, there are complaints of vomiting continuously, which will result in malnutrition and dehydration in pregnant women. What can be done to prevent these complications is to do a non-pharmacological treatment, namely acupressure. The purpose of this literature review is to determine the effectiveness of acupressure therapy in reducing complaints of nausea and vomiting in pregnant women. This research is a literature review using data sources based on literature studies from the Science Direct, PubMed, and Scholar databases in the last five years. The strategy used to search for articles using PICO. Keywords according to the topic of a literature review using Boolean (AND, OR, NOT). The results obtained nine papers that were reviewed. Results found that acupressure therapy at point P6, point KID21, Zu San Li, and point Gong Sun can effectively reduce complaints of nausea and vomiting in pregnant women who are carried out regularly. The conclusion from this literature review is that non-pharmacological acupressure therapy is effective in reducing complaints of nausea and vomiting in pregnant women.