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.
One to two grams of fresh ginger spread over the day — as thin slices, as tea or chewed.
Ginger acts at the same points in the gut as some anti-sickness drugs. For pregnancy sickness and travel sickness it is one of the best-studied home remedies there is.
Against vomiting in a stomach bug it helps little; there fluid is what counts.
In pregnancy use ordinary kitchen amounts, not high-dose capsules. With blood thinners and before surgery, discuss with your doctor.
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.