Home Remedy for Upset Stomach
As a modern society we have been ‘programmed’ to seek medical relief from the use of pharmaceuticals, be it prescription or over-the-counter. This is somewhat understandable given the system we operate in today with our busy lifestyles filled with speedy shortcuts. We forget that our grand parents and ancestors had discovered countless natural home remedies for all types of ailments, many of which have not been passed down to current generations.
Although Prilosec works well in most cases…
The following home remedy is one for which many are inflicted, an upset stomach or stomach pain. Rather than reaching for a pharmaceutical, why not first try thinking about the possible cause (a particular food sensitivity, etc…) and second, why not try a natural home remedy such as this one, which sometimes works better than a pharmaceutical!
The following are two natural home remedies that work for me for an upset stomach to offer temporary relief, and will work like a charm.
Ginger Root for upset stomach pain
The first home remedy for my upset stomach actually came form my gastroenterologist. He said, “You know what would really help you? Ginger. Make some ginger tea, it will really help your stomach pain.” Now, I had already tried taking ginger capsules that I bought at a vitamin store with no relief. The fact that I was seeing a gastroenterologist meant I was frustrated with the situation and I was willing to try just about anything to obtain some relief. So I went to the store and bought some ginger tea. Guess what? I had no relief.
Shortly thereafter, I happened to be talking to a friend, who is also a physician. When I told him that I had no relief from the ginger tea, he asked me how I had made the tea. I said, “Well, I took the bag out of the box…..” He chuckled and said, “no, no. You’ve got to make the tea from fresh ginger and cinnamon sticks.”
Ah, ha! The light bulb went on! I had also heard somewhere that cinnamon was helpful in calming an upset stomach. So I made the ‘recipe’ he gave me and experienced a lot of relief within 10 – 15 minutes of drinking the tea.
The recipe is simple.
Take some fresh ginger root and slice into medallions about ¼ inch thick. You want about ¾ cup when you are done. Remember that when purchasing your ginger root you want to look for ones with smooth skins. If the skin is wrinkled, it means the ginger is old.
Bring to a boil 6 cups of water. Add the sliced ginger root and 4 to 6 cinnamon sticks. Let the ‘tea’ simmer at a low boil for 20 minutes. Let cool. Remove the ginger root and cinnamon sticks.
I have found that the tea is more enjoyable after it has been refrigerated until cold.
This recipe makes a nice pitcher-full so I always have some handy in the fridge if upset stomach acid rears it’s ugly head. Relief is only 10 – 15 minutes away.
Also available, Ground Ginger Root
Coconut Water for upset stomach pain
This next remedy, for me, was much more effective on upset stomach than even the ginger root tea. One day I was having stomach pain, a bad acid attack. Though the ginger tea helped, it was not its usual relief. My husband started looking online and found the following remedy. That day, it was nothing short of a miracle for me.
Go to the store and buy a whole coconut (‘young’ green coconuts apparently work best). This remedy is coconut water, not coconut milk! You need to extract the water from the inside of the coconut. Now, I had a bit of a dilemma. How to crack open the coconut without losing the majority of the natural water. My husband the MacGyver went out to the tool shed and brought back a cordless drill for the simple solution.
Drill a hole in the coconut and pour the ‘water’ into a glass with a piece of cheesecloth over the top to strain out any small pieces of husk etc. Drink it down! It actually tastes good. I found a lot of relief in about 5 minutes.
Hope this information helps you the next time you have an upset stomach to consider or seek out other natural remedies rather than automatically reaching for a pill 
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For acid reflux, I eat half a grapefruit. Relief is immediate.
I suffered a severe burn to the top of my entire foot while deep frying food. I immediately submersed my foot under cold water for 5 mins. My foot was purple red and had not yet formed a blister. I brewed a bag of pomergrant green tea and chilled it in the freezer, then used thick paper towels and wrapped my foot with several layers of very damp but not drippy towels, and secured the whole thing with press and seal wrap. Pain relief was immediate and complete. I continued this along with elevating my foot and drinking lots of grape juice for 24 hours. Healing and pain relief was incredible! I am an RN and I have never seen medicine do what green tea did! I would not use this on a burn with broken skin, but this could work for a sunburn or first degree burn that really hurts!
This isn’t accurate. If you got a regular, brown coconut from the grocery store, then you weren’t drinking coconut water, you were drinking coconut MILK. Coconut water can only be found in young, green coconuts. These are rarely if ever sold at stores in the U.S.
@Anonymous, We’ve purchased coconuts at the supermarket and the liquid inside is clear as water, not milk.
It doesn’t matter if the coconut is young or brown, the liquid inside is clear and that’s coconut water. FYI – Coconut milk is the white flesh inside blended with water (coconut milk)!
Not true. Aged coconut have water also. Its not milk.
the clear liquid in any coconut is coconut water … coconut milk is the liquid produced from pureeing coconut.
Yes. Coconut liquid from a brown coconut is clear. It doesn’t mean it’s coconut water. Go do a tiny amount of research (a simple google search of “coconut water” should do the trick, and you’ll see that coconut water is from a soft, GREEN, young coconut, not a husky, hard-to-open brown one from the grocery store.
Thanks for the update. Yes indeed it appears that young green coconuts have much more water inside than older brown coconuts which contain more meat and air inside than water, and also reportedly have better health benefits. I say if you can find them, get them!
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Water from any age of the coconut is called coconut water. But the younger the coconut fruit is, the sweeter the taste. Coconut milk is produced by squeezing grated coconut milk, which will give the liquid a white color that looks like milk, hence the name.
Hello,
Thanks for your post. My wife suffers from intermittent upset stomach, so I made her some of this tea. You mentioned that the recipe makes a pitcher full. Do you add water to the tea to fill the pitcher if so what size pitcher are you using? Thanks!
The pitcher size holds about 2-quarts while the recipe calls for 6 cups. No additional water beyond the 6 cups was added. Hope it works for you!
Wish I had stumbled upon this sooner! I actually discovered the coconut trick myself. I’ve been getting horrible stomach pains and I’m scheduled to see the gastroenterologist, but I haven’t been able to figure out what does or doesn’t help or cause the pain. I noticed that I did not get the pain this past week after using coconut milk in my cereal every morning (I’m referring to the coconut milk sold in the dairy isle alongside regular milk, not the canned coconut milk). Hopefully the pain subsides!
I haven’t been drinking coconut water lately, but I should try that too!
In India we often have coconut water. In India one can find coconut water vendors who sit on roadsides by establishing small stalls. They sell young coconuts which are green in colour and rich in water content. You can also have water from the brown coconut, but brown coconuts have lesser water than green coconuts. The vendors use sharp tools (special kind of knives) and within seconds they slash the green coconut and give it to you with a straw. Once you finished drinking water then they cut the coconut open and remove the soft and supple coconut, this coconut’s (white in colour)structure is just like soft cream, only sometimes hard). You eat this coconut and discard the shell. Here (In India) one such green coconut costs you around 20 to 30 Rs. Brown coconuts are used mainly to prepare some food recipes like certain vegetables and fish, etc.
@ Sayalee: Thank you! Stay well and survive well! Lauren
Drink activated charcoal this really helps for upset stomach and throwing up.
Just drink it…. see what happens
Best advice about the ginger tea it works wonders for a upset stomach
The cinnamon sticks should be simmered Thirty to 45 minutes on a low flame in an uncovered pot or kettle. After the flame is turned off finely chopped ginger should be added, the pot covered tightly, and the mixture allowed to cool to room temperature. This keeps the medicinal ginger oil from evaporating. Fresh mint leaves can be added, with the ginger to improve this even more. When cool decant or strain and enjoy!