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.
Put the feet on a small stool so the knees sit higher than the hips, lean the upper body slightly forward. Take time, do not strain.
In this posture the angle between rectum and anal canal opens up. The path is straighter and less pressure is needed.
It replaces neither fibre nor drinking nor movement — and a sluggish gut does not become brisk from it.
With blood in the stool, a change in bowel habit lasting weeks, or pain, get it assessed rather than optimised.
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.