Home Remedies For Diarrhea (Diarrhoea)

Rice pudding is one of the oldest remedies for diarrhea. Make your own with one and a half cups of milk, a pinch of salt, six tablespoons of brown sugar, a teaspoon of vanilla extract, two to four eggs, grated lemon rind and two cups of cooked white rice. Add all the ingredients together and mix well. Spread the mixture in a buttered baking dish and cook for an hour. Sprinkle with cinnamon.

Roast 1/2 tsp cumin (jeera) seeds and 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds (dana methi). Mix and powder it, add to 4 tsp of yogurt (curd). Take thrice a day.

Boil rice in water for one and a half hours, then strain and drink the liquid to soothe an irritated bowel. You could also make a thick oatmeal drink by cooking together a cup of oats and 1.2 litres (2 pints) of water for five minutes. Strain and drink frequently. Oats also have a calming effect on the bowel, and starchy fluids tend to stop vomiting and reduce fluid loss.

Add a teaspoon of cornflour to a glass of water at room temperature - it tastes disgusting, so drink it down quickly and repeat the dose every three or four hours.

Blueberries contain compounds called anthocyanosides which control diarrhoea, so add them to your breakfast cereal.

Try eating a grated apple which has been allowed to go brown. The pectin oxidises and acts like many proprietary brands of diarrhoea remedies - slightly unripe bananas have the same effect.

Mix 5-6 chopped basil (tulsi) leaves, 1/4 tsp sea salt, some black pepper in 3 Tbsp of curd, and eat it. repeat this 4 times a day for one week for complete reconditioning of stomach.