Natural Remedies for an Upset Stomach

Overview

Gas and stomach pain can be embarrassing and painful. Too much gas in the stomach can cause cramps, pain, and even heartburn. Such symptoms can occur due to indigestion, bloating, or acid reflux. Many people take over-the-counter medicines for stomach pain and gas, but natural home treatments can work just as well. This blog post will discuss the best home remedies for gas issues, natural ways to alleviate stomach gas, and simple lifestyle adjustments to prevent gas problems.

What makes your stomach upset?

Eating too much, eating too quickly, eating greasy or spicy foods, getting food poisoning, getting an infection, being stressed, taking certain medicines, or having a digestive problem like indigestion, constipation, or acid reflux can all make your stomach upset.

Reasons Why Your Stomach Feels Bad

1. Triggers in the diet

• When you eat too much or too quickly, your digestive system gets too busy, which can cause bloating and pain.
• Foods that are oily, spicy, or greasy irritate the lining of the gut and make digestion slower.
• Too much caffeine, wine, or chocolate: Makes your stomach make more acid, which makes indigestion worse.
• Poisoning or intolerances in food: Food that is contaminated or allergies (like lactose intolerance) can make you sick and give you diarrhea, cramps, or both.

2. Problems with the intestines

• If you have indigestion, you may feel burning or full after eating because your stomach has too much acid.
• Constipation or gas: Bloating and pain are caused by squishy or airy stools that get stuck.
• Heartburn, also known as acid reflux, occurs when stomach acid flows back up into the throat and causes pain.
• When you get the stomach flu (viral gastroenteritis), you feel sick, throw up, and have diarrhea.

3. Drugs and medications

• Painkillers, antibiotics, and supplements: Can hurt the lining of the stomach or mess up the bugs that live there.
• Smoking: Lessens blood flow to the stomach and makes it take longer to heal.

4. Physiological and environmental factors

• Anxiety and stress can cause gut muscle spasms and change the way digestion works.
• Motion sickness: throws off the inner ear's balance, making you feel sick.
• Morning sickness during pregnancy: Changes in hormones make you feel sick and make you throw up.
• Migraines: Often come with feeling sick and having stomach problems

How to Treat an Upset Stomach Naturally

Ginger tea, peppermint, chamomile, staying hydrated, eating bland foods (like bananas or rice), and taking probiotics are all natural ways to settle an upset stomach. These can help with feeling sick, getting rid of gas, and soothing irritated stomach tracts.

How to Treat an upset stomach Naturally

1. Herbal Teas

• Drinking ginger tea can alleviate nausea and inflammation. It helps with gas, bloating, and feeling sick while travelling.
• Peppermint tea eases gas and bloating by relaxing gut muscles and stopping spasms.

2. Staying hydrated

• Warm water: Taking small sips of warm water can help your body get rid of toxins and digest food better.
• Fluids that are high in electrolytes: Coconut water or oral rehydration products can help if you are throwing up or having diarrhea.

3. Same old food (BRAT Foods)

• Bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast are easy on the stomach, calm it down, and help bind stool if you have diarrhea.
• Plain yogurt: It has probiotics that help your gut get back in balance.

4. Pure Soothers for Digestive Problems

• Seeds of fennel: Feena helps your body digest food and gets rid of gas.
• Caraway seeds have been used for a long time to help with cramps and gas.
• Apple cider vinegar that has been diluted may help digestion and control stomach acid.

5. Changes in lifestyle

• Stress makes stomach problems worse, so rest. Deep breathing or meditation can help.
• Keep irritants away: While your symptoms are getting better, cut back on caffeine, booze, and spicy or oily foods.
• Take your time: It stops you from taking too much air and eases indigestion.

What are the best ways to treat stomach pain at home?

Water with asafoetida (hing): 

• It stops spasms and keeps gas from building up.
• Easy Treatments in the Kitchen
• Aloe vera juice soothes irritability and helps keep your gut healthy.
• Plain yogurt: It has probiotics that help your gut get back in balance.

Way of life and relaxation

• Heating pad: The warmth relaxes the muscles in your stomach and eases the pain.
• Yoga stretches: poses like child's pose and wind-relieving pose help get rid of gas that is stuck in the body.
• Deep breathing and dealing with stress: Stress makes stomach pain worse; relaxation methods can help.
• Changes to your diet: Stay away from fatty, hot, or processed foods, and eat more small meals more often.

Water Cumin (Jeera)

• Cumin seeds help your body digest food better and stop acid reflux. Cumin water, which is made by boiling cumin seeds in water, can help ease stomach pain and gas. For quick comfort, you could also chew on roasted cumin seeds mixed with warm water.

Baking soda

• Baking soda neutralizes stomach gas and makes you feel less bloated. If you drink half a teaspoon of baking soda mixed with warm water, it will help right away with acidity and gas.

Cloves

• Cloves help digestion and reduce bloating by stopping the production of too much gas. For gas relief, chewing two to three cloves after a meal or drinking water with cloves in it can help.

Chamomile Tea: Feels good on the stomach

• Chamomile tea eases gas and calms the muscles in the digestive tract. If you drink chamomile tea before bed, it can help ease stomach pain and improve digestion.

Changes in your lifestyle can help stop gas and bloating.

• Simple things you can do every day can help keep your digestive system comfortable by stopping gas from building up and preventing bloating.

Slow down and chew your food well.

• When you eat too quickly, you swallow air, which causes bloating and gas buildup. It's easier to digest food and less likely to give you indigestion if you chew it well.

Don't drink carbonated drinks.

• Soda and other fizzy drinks make your stomach make more gas, which makes you bloated. For good digestion, drink water, herbal teas, or fresh juices instead.

Cut down on high-gas foods.

• Beans, lentils, cabbage, dairy (for people who can't handle lactose), and fried and processed foods are some of the foods that can cause too much gas. Limiting these things can help keep your stomach from hurting.

Drink water.

• Getting enough water helps your body digest food and keep you from getting constipated, which can help with gas problems. To keep your gut system working well, try to drink at least two to three liters of water every day.

Regularly work out

Yoga, walks, and light stretching can help get rid of gas and improve digestion. The Wind-Relieving Pose (Pavanamuktasana), the Diamond Pose (Vajrasana), and the Cat-Cow Pose are some of the best yoga poses for gas release.

If you feel sick after eating nuts, you may have a food intolerance.

Most stomach pain caused by nuts is unlikely to be a food allergy, which affects your immune system and can cause an anaphylactic (or whole-body) reaction. Anaphylaxis is extremely dangerous and requires immediate medical attention.

If you really are allergic to nuts, you might have stomach pain and other GI signs like wheezing or coughing, hives, or your tongue swelling up.

2. You ate too many

• In one sitting, how many nuts do you eat?
• If you eat quickly, your body might have trouble breaking down a lot of fat all at once. When you eat too many nuts at once, it could mean that your diet is missing something.

3. You're not used to having a lot of fiber

• Nuts have a lot of nutrition. Fiber can help keep your bowel movements regular and improve the health of your gut, so this is generally a good thing. [5]
• But high-fiber snacks like nuts can make you gassy and bloated if your body isn't used to getting a lot of them. And that gas can make your stomach hurt.

How to Stop Nuts from Making Your Stomach Hurt?

• Simple foods that won't make you feel bad include toast, bananas, rice, applesauce, and apples.
• Add lemon to warm water and drink it.
• Have a cup of chamomile, mint, or ginger tea.
• A heat pad or a hot water bottle should be put on your stomach.

How and When to Get Medical Help

• For mild, short-term pain, natural treatments work best. Get help from a doctor if you have:
• Strong or long-lasting pain
• Gut or stool with blood in it
• A fever
• Dizziness, dry mouth, and less urine are all signs of being dehydrated.

Conclusion

People often have problems with gas and stomach pain that are easy to treat at home. Small changes can have a big effect. For example, using spices like ginger, ajwain, and hing and changing your habits, like drinking less soda and eating more slowly, can make a big difference. These natural treatments will help you feel better in a healthy way if you've been having trouble with gas or bloating.