The best home remedies for flatulence

With these home remedies you can treat flatulence yourself

Home remedies can help with bloating and bloating. These are usually associated with abdominal pain, belching and outgoing winds. In case of persistent or persistent complaints, a doctor or alternative practitioner should be consulted to rule out serious causes or to take therapeutic measures. However, in most cases, flatulence is an uncomfortable expression of a digestive disorder that can be alleviated or eliminated with home remedies from naturopathy.

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• With these home remedies you can treat flatulence yourself
• Quick help with bloating: the right diet
• Conscious eating prevents bloated abdomen
• Four-winds tea for flatulence
• Bittern in bloating
• Schüssler salts in spasmodic bloating
• Natural treatment with homeopathy
• Moist hot body wraps with inflated belly

Quick help with bloating: the right diet

The right diet can reduce flatulence. Avoid ready-to-use and highly flatulent foods such as onions, cabbage, legumes or fresh bread. Foods that contain refined sugars or are high in fiber can increase bloating. A gradual transition to full nutrition is therefore better than a sudden change. Helpful in the meantime is the use of digestive herbs and spices. Chamomile, lemon balm, peppermint, anise, caraway, fennel, coriander and cardamom can all be processed in the kitchen. For example, cardamom seeds can be peeled and chewed directly from the capsule, infused with hot (non-boiling) water, or used in cooking.

Cardamom seeds as well as fennel, caraway, coriander and many other herbal home remedies help against flatulence. (Image: emuck / fotolia.com)

Conscious eating prevents bloated abdomen

In order to avoid the swollen abdomen, it is necessary to follow certain rules when eating. So you should eat at fixed times in peace and chew the food extensively (Fletchern). About half an hour before, during and another half an hour after eating you should refrain from drinks of any kind. Avoid too tight clothing that only increases the pressure on the abdomen and do not suppress stool urgency, outgoing air or belching.

A gentle massage of the abdomen can be very beneficial. Care should be taken to massage around the navel in a clockwise direction. Because the movements of the intestine for mixing and further transport of the chyme (intestinal motility) are supported, so tight-seated gases can go off easier.

Four-winds tea for flatulence

As a tea preparation, the four-winds tea is recommended after the recipe of Rudolph Fritz Weiss. Because the medicinal herbs contained therein have a strong deflating and at the same time anticonvulsant and are therefore particularly helpful in bloating. It is advisable to have the ingredients for the tea in every home and kitchen pharmacy in stock.

In equal parts caraway seeds, fennel seeds, horse mint leaves and chamomile flowers are mixed and poured one to two teaspoons of it with a quarter liter of boiling water. After five to ten minutes, the tea has drawn enough and can be passed through a small sieve. Drink two to three cups daily until improvement occurs.

Bittern in bloating

The use of bitter substances is often successful in flatulence, which is based on digestive weakness. Easy to produce and antiblähend effective are the small Swedish bitter after Maria Treben and the following Angelikalikör:

For the Angelika liqueur Pound 60g angelica seeds, 8g anise seeds, 8g fennel seeds and 6g coriander seeds together to a fine powder. The powder is used (with pleasure) with 220 ml of brandy or grain for eight days and then enriched with one liter of water and 500 g of fructose. After another day, peel off the liquid through a cloth or fine mesh sieve.

By taking the small Swedish bitters according to the recipe of Maria Treben the complaints can be alleviated. (Image: TwilightArtPictures / fotolia.com)

Schüssler salts in spasmodic bloating

Another effective home remedy for bloating and flatulence is Schüssler salts. If it has already come to spasmodic pain in the inflated stomach, the "Hot Seven" with their antispasmodic property relief can create. To do this, 10 tablets of salt No.7, Magnesium phosphoricum, dissolved in a glass with boiling hot water and drunk as hot as possible in small sips. Even pregnant women can enjoy this mixture without worries. Care should only be taken to ensure that the vehicle of the product (lactose, potato starch) is well tolerated. Otherwise you should avoid drops or globules.

Natural treatment with homeopathy

Homeopathy offers a bloated abdomen including "Nux vomica" (Brechnuss). This remedy works in low doses diuretic and digestive. In high doses, however, it is poisonous, as the Brechnuss belongs to the Strychnos plants and accordingly contains strychnine. For homeopathic use, the dried seeds are used only very diluted and do not pose a risk. Nux vomica is especially recommended when the flatulence after heavy, abundant eating and drinking alcohol and accompanied by nausea, feeling of fullness and stomach pain.

If gastric pressure, frequent regurgitation, an unpleasant lump in the throat, shortness of breath, and severe mood swings occur in addition to flatulence, Asa can help. Mandragora e radice (also called "mandrake root") has proven to be effective when the flatulence is accompanied by bloating, stomach ache (after eating) and nocturnal abdominal cramps. This is especially true if the patient does not tolerate greasy and sweet foods and nourishing poisons and mild stools occur.

Other homeopathic remedies are e.g. Argentum nitricum, Carbo vegetabilis, Dioscorea villosa and Colchicum are used. Which means in which potency in the individual case is the right one, should be clarified in conversation with a naturopath or naturopathic doctor.

Heat has a relaxing effect and therefore almost always helps to relieve the symptoms. (Image: absolutimages-fotolia)

Moist hot body wraps with inflated belly

In acute ailments, heat has a relaxing effect and so relieves pain. Have proven the classic hot water bottle, grain pillows or moist hot body wraps, which are placed on the bloated stomach. For the three-ply wrap, you will need a linen handkerchief, a linen or cotton cloth and an outer terry or woolen cloth. The best way to create the wrap by a helping person.

The inner cloth is soaked in hot water, wrung something and wrapped from the armpits to the pubic area around the body of the person concerned. In abdominal height, you then put on a hot water bottle and wrapped middle cloth and outer cloth around it. For the feet now a second hot water bottle should be prepared. After an hour with the moist hot wrap, it should be allowed to rest for another 30 minutes. (updated July 22, 2016; jvs, nr)

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