Any person can get indigestion. This phenomenon is not only unpleasant by its manifestations, but can also be very dangerous. Not every patient aspires to resort to traditional medications because of possible side effects or price, if there are signs of diarrhea, so for the majority of patients the most optimal way out of this situation is recipes of folk medicine, namely decoctions of diarrhea. With the help of them you can quite easily cope with the disease, but only if the dysfunction of the intestine is short-term and is not a sign of a serious gastrointestinal disease.
Thanks to the proven recipes for centuries, it is very easy to prepare a decoction of berries, herbs and other improvised products with astringent properties. Among them, most often for eradicating diarrhea, they use flowers of narcissus and melissa, which also have analgesic properties, as well as oak bark, blueberries and cherry, St. John's wort and chamomile. Of the improvised products, rice croup is the most popular, the decoction of which very effectively stops diarrhea even in infants. All these drugs act gradually and very gently lead the intestines with prolonged mild diarrhea to normal.
Rules for preparation of decoction against diarrhea
For the effectiveness of such an unconventional drug used to stop a loose stool, it was best, it should be prepared in accordance with certain rules. A mixture of herbs should be taken in equal proportions and placed in a glass jar. Then the prepared components are poured with boiling water, covered with a lid and put on a water bath. To broil on it a decoction, intended for the elimination of diarrhea, should not less than half an hour. After that, it should be cooled and filtered through gauze. The steamed herbal ingredients are squeezed out. Such non-traditional medicine is being drunk in small doses like tea. But it should be remembered that they can be consumed no longer than 2 days, otherwise an overdose of the drug in the body may occur, and instead of diarrhea there will be constipation, which brings no less problems.
If the patient is sure that the cause of diarrhea is food poisoning, the broth can be prepared only from one component - the flowers of narcissus. Drink it for several sips throughout the day, and from eating food during treatment should be completely abandoned. Narcissus is the first emergency medicine designed to remove poisons from the intestines, so this raw material should always be at hand.
In case of chronic diarrhea, you should consult a specialist before assigning a decoction to yourself or your child from any medicinal plant. In the event that they will not be diagnosed with abnormal gastrointestinal disturbances capable of provoking permanent diarrhea, methods of non-traditional therapy can be used to treat it. But also after consulting a specialist, since with a regular liquid stool, first of all you need to eliminate the cause, which provokes it. So with neurogenic diarrhea, in addition to herbal decoctions, you should start taking sedatives, normalizing the nervous system, and changing your attitude to the stressful situations that cause diarrhea.
In addition to the oral method of taking medicinal broths for diarrhea, they can also be administered with the help of microclysters, which have a good therapeutic effect. All of them directly affect the intestines and have, in addition to the astringent, also painkiller, anti-inflammatory and soothing effects. But with them one should be careful not to get carried away by frequent use, since extracts from some medicinal plants can depressively act on the beneficial microflora.