One of the most popular DIY cures involves rubbing Vicks VapoRub on the bottom of your child's feet and chest at night, covering with a warm towel for 30 seconds, and repeating a few times. Though it sounds odd, some parents swear that come morning, the nagging cough is a distant memory.
Yet, there is also one type of skin cancer which is a cancer of blood that really causes itchiness. It is the cutaneous T-cell lymphoma which is a growth of white blood cell in the skin. That explains why does skin cancer itch.
In cancer patients, chemotherapy itself causes nausea, and radiation is also suspected to release substances that can trigger nausea. Today we know that TENS treatment on the PC6 acupuncture point reduces nausea, although no theoretical explanation model has been established.