Home remedies · Stomach, gut & nausea
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Walk ten to fifteen minutes two or three times a day, plus a large glass of lukewarm water in the morning.
Movement stimulates bowel activity, and the reflex is strongest after getting up and after eating — that is when a trip to the toilet pays off.
Movement alone is not enough with stubborn constipation; fibre and fluid belong to it.
With sudden constipation plus vomiting, a distended belly or no wind passing, do not wait — that is an emergency.
Do not treat yourself: strong, increasing or suddenly starting abdominal pain, a hard belly, blood in the stool or black stool, vomiting blood. With diarrhoea it is fluid loss that counts — dry tongue, little urine, drowsiness. In children and older people this happens faster.