DIARRHOEA
When the stool is very thin and watery and there are frequent visits to the toilet though there are no spasms, it is known as diarrhea or dysentery. It is not a disease in itself byt symptom of other diseases. Diarrhoea is more common during the summer season.
Causes
Heavy fried or oily food, over eating, dirty toxic food, the use of laxatives, consumption of ice, worms, hot spices, keeping awake during night, constipation, etc. are the major factors that cause diarrhea. Nature does not allow the body to retain certain foods in the stomach or intestines, therefore, it results in diarrhea. Other causes that lead to diarrhea are eating either raw or over ripe fruits, sudden fear, sorrow or terror, mental agony, disorders of the digestive system because of sudden changes in the weather, paucity or overflow of bile in the intestines, etc.
There is a thin film of mucus on the intestines, which constantly secretes a kind of juice. This is the juice that ffacilitates the digestion of food. If the food is not digested properly and there is indigestion, it may result in diarrhea. During the process of digestion, the this membrane over the intestines reabsorbs the juice secreted by it. But sometimes, due to certain reasons, the membrane cannot reabsorb the juice and one suffers from diarrhea. Due to stimulation created by food, the intestines release a lot of water, for example, the use of red chilli stimulates them to release excessive water. There are several other rfactors which cause secretion from the intestines leading to diarrhea. During the treatment, the patient should try to avoid such situations which may aggravate the problem. Diarrhea may lead to gastritis, enteritis or a combination of both called gastroenteritis.
Preventive measures
Water: Boil ltr of water. When it is reduced to one forth, strain it using a piece of cloth. Drink it when it is lukewarm. It will check diarrhea, sharpen the appetite, provide relief from flatulence, stomachache, constipation, hiccups and vomiting.
In diarrhea one has mostly frequent loose watery stools. Whatever the colour and cause of diarrhea, it is a fatal disease which especially affects your children. Some of the following preventive measures can be of great help:
1. As far as possible, mother should breast feed her child.
2. Instead of using a feeding bottle, use a bowl and spoon to feed milk to the children.
3. Keep the drinking water cove red in a clean pot. Use a mug with a handle to take water out of it.
4. Get drinking water from a clean source.
5. Keep food items covered and protect them form flies.
6. Don’t eat stale food. Also don’t take cut and rotten fruit infested with flies.
7. Wash the hands well before taking your meals.
8. The toilet should be away from the living place.
How to cure Diarrhoea?
As soon as you realize you are suffering from diarrhea you should go in for home remedies. Diarrhea reduces the level of water and salt in the body, therefore ORS should be administered immediately to the patient. This solution can be prepared easily in the following manner:
1. Take a glass or 200 ml of clean drinking water.
2. Pour the water in a clean bigger utensil.
3. Add a pinch of salt with clean hands.
4. Stir with a clean spoon so that salt gets fully dissolved in the water.
5. Taste the solution to ascertain that it is no more salty than tears.
6. Now mix a tsp of sugar in the water.
7. Stir with a spoon to dissolve the sugar. If sugar is not available you may use jiggery.
8. After every loose motion, give a half to one glass of it to the patient to be sipped slowly. ORS is available in readymade packets also. The contents of one packet are to be dissolved in one litre of water.
During diarrhea special care should be taken of the patient’s diet. Infants should be fed on mother’s milk besides, the patient should be given sufficient quantity of other liquids sucha s lemon water, rice gruel, kanji, etc. The patient can be given soft foods like khichadi, mashed banana, curd, etc.
In case diarrhea is not cured within two days and the child feels weak, consult a doctor.
Treatment through food
If the diarrhea has been caused by indigestion or dyspepsia, the patient should go without food. Taking butter milk is beneficial. Use the following food items in as much quantity as you can. They will not only meet the requirement of food but also cure the disease.
For the treatment of diarrhea, give lassi made of plain curd, butter milk or 2 tsp. of isabgol husk in butter milk. As regards fruits, you can give apples and pomegranate juice and khichadi with curd.
Lemon : Squeeze a lemon in milk and drink it. It will be beneficial. If the diarrhea is spasmodic or amoebic, the use of lemon is helpful. Squeeze one lemon in a cup of water and drink it. Take it five times a day. It checks diarrhea.
Mango : Mix ½ cup of sweet mango juice with 25 gms. Of curd and 1 tsp. of ginger juice. It cures chronic diarrhea, dyspeptic residue in diarrhea and piles.
Amla : Taking ½ tsp of amla powder mixed with little quantity of ginger juice. It cures chronic diarrhea, dyspeptic residue in diarrhea and piles.
Rose apple : Take two and a half leaves of a rose apple tree (the leaves should neither be too hard nor too soft) and grind them into a paste, add a little rock salt and make pills. Take a pill each in the morning and evening to get immediate relief from diarrhea.
Pemegranate : (1) Put a layer of clay around a pomegranate and roast it. After roasting, take out the seeds and extract their juice. Mix some honey with it. It can cure all types of diarrhea.
(2) Grind 15 gms of dried rind of pomegranate with two cloves and boil in a glass of water. When it is reduced to half the quantity, strain it and divide it into three doses. Take the doses at an interval of three hours each. It will be beneficial in diarrhea and dysentery. To the persons who suffer from amoebic condition or irregularity of the bowels, its regular use will be beneficial.
Bottle gourd : The use of bottle gourd in the form of raita (mixed with curd) is beneficial in diarrhea.
Mint leaves : Take ½ cup of the juice of mint leaves every two hours.
Rice : After cooking rice, usually we throw away the boiled rice water, known as maand. This maand is quite useful for patients of diarrhea. Children should be given ½ cup and grown ups one cup every hour. It will cure diarrhea. Little kids can be given a small quantity. If a little bit of salt is added, it will increase its taste and nutrition value and it will be easy digestible. If you keep it long, it begins to smell. Therefore, do not keep it for more than six hours. There is a simple way to prepare maand. Grind 100 gms of rice into fine powder. Boil it in 1 ltr of water. When it is fully boiled, strain it and mix salt to taste. Take it as mentioned above. You will find it useful in diarrhea. Rice is a good diet in diarrhea. It should be taken mixed with curd.
Poppy seeds : Take 2tsp of poppy seeds, mix a little water and ¼ cup of curd and take it twice dialy at an interval of six hours. It provides relief from dysentery, spasms and diarrhea. Eating poppy seeds kheer is also beneficial.
Coriander : (1) Grind green coriander leaves mixed with black salt and black pepper into chutney. Take a little at a time. It is easily digestible. Heat coriander powder and take a tsp at a time with water. It controls diarrhea. If diarrhea is accompanied by amoebae and spasms, mix sugar candy in the concoction of coriander. If loose motions occur after meals, mix black salt to taste with coriander powder and take a tsp with cold water twice daily after meals.
(2) Mix black salt with coriander powder and take it after meals. It will provide relief from the habit of passing stool after meals. Coriander powder is effective in curing diarrhea.
Water : Thousands of children die because of diarrhea every year. This happens because of dehydration. As soon as a child has three or four loose motions, give him the following solution which can be prepared at home. The child will recover soon if he takes plenty of water. Give him the usual food to eat. Infants should be fed on mothers milk also. This prescription has been successfully used in several countries:
Clean water - 1 ltr.
Sugar - 40gms or 8tsp
Slat - 5gms or 1tsp
If water is not clean, boil it and let it cool down. Mix salt and sugar in it. The solution is ready. Feed the small kids with a spoon and older children may use a glass tumbler. It should be given at small intervals. The child will recover in two to four days. Remember, a little bit of common sense can save the life of your child.
Peepal : The leaves of peepal tree can cure diarrhea. Chew five leaves or boil them in a glass of water and then drink the boiled water.
Bel: (1) Mash bel pulp in water, mix sugar and prepare syrup. Take a cup of it thrice daily for a few days regularly.
(2) Grind the sun-dried slices or pulp of bel into a fine powder and take a tsp. of it mixsed with curd or 250ml of butter milk twice daily in the morning and evening. It will control diarrhea.
Banana : It is a constipative. Taking two bananas with 125gms. Of curd daily for a few days provides relief from diarrhea, dysentery and irregularity of the bowels.
Plum: It is a constipant but still does not cause constipation.
Guava: Boil the tender leaves of guava in water. It can cure even chronic diarrhea.
Papaya : Boil raw papaya in water. It can also cure chornic diarrhea.
Carrots: it cures chronic diarrhea as well as the diarrhea caused by dyspepsia.
Onion : (1) Grind onions and apply the paste on the naval. It will provide relief from diarrhea.
(2) Mix opium to the weight of a mustard seed in onion juice and drink it. It provides immediate relief from diarrhea and spasms.
Masoor daal and rice : It makes a good diet for the patients of diarrhea or dysentery.
Wheat : Grind aniseed into a fine powder. Soak it in water. Knead wheat flour using this water and prepare chapattis. Eating these chapattis will be beneficial in diarrhea or dysentery.
Butter milk: Taking 125ml of butter milk mixed with 12gms of honey will provide relief from diarrhea.
Clarified butter : To get relief from diarrhea take a tsp of clarified butter in half a glass of hot water twice daily in the morning and evening. For children reduce the quantity as per their age. This recipe has been tried by several families for generations.
Anissed: Grind 3 gms of roasted aniseed with 3 gms of unroasted anissed and add ground sugar candy to it. Its use is beneficial in diarrhea. If the patient is a little child, boil 6 gms of aniseed in 82 ml of water. When the water is reduced to half the quantity, add 1gm black salt to it. Give 12ml of it to the child thrice a day. It will be very beneficial.
Nutmeg: Grate dried ginger and nutmeg with a little water and give it to the patient thrice a day. It is very useful for children.
Cinnamon : Take two gms of cinnamon powder with water. It checks diarrhea.
Basil : (1) The decoction of basil leaves is beneficial in diarrhea. Taking 10gms juice of basil leaves and pan, heat it and give it to the child suffering form diarrhea. It provides relief from flatulence and distension.
Isabgol : Take a tsp of isabgol husk in hot milk at bedtime. The following morning g mix isablgol husk in curd and eat it after adding salt, dried ginger powder and cumin seeds. Its regular use for a few days will effectively check amoebic dysentery.
Alum salt: Grind 20 gms of alum salt and 3 gms of opium and mix them. Give a minute quantity equal to the weight of a grain to the patient twice a day with water. It is beneficial in diarrhea.
Cumin seeds: When the stool is watery thin, roast cuminseeds, mix with ½ tsp honey and take it four times a day. Take butter milk with roasted cumin seeds and black salt added to it after meals. It will provide relief from diarrhea.
Ginger: Take half a cup of hot boiled water. Mix a tsp of ginger juice in it. Sip as hot as you can. Repeat it after every hour. It will cure diarrhea.
Sugar: Boil water, allow it to cool down and fill a glass tumbler. Add a little bit of slat and sugar to taste. Give it to the patient frequently. Keep giving some or the other kind of liquid to the patient and ask him to take meals regularly. The patient will not feel debilitated.
Neem: Grind 1gm. Of the kernel or neem and seeds alongwith a little sugar and take it with water. Take only rice for meal.
Walnut: If the diarrhea is spasmodic, grind two walnuts mixed with water and apply it on the naval. It will provide relief from spasms.
Orange : Ornage juice mixed with milk is beneficial in curbing diarrhea in children.
Apple : If a child cannot digest milk or vomits and suffers from diarrhea after taking milk, stop giving him milk and feed him with apple juice at short intervals. It will provide relief from diarrhea.
Apple juice is beneficial in chronic cases also. It is useful in cases of spasmodic diarrhea among grown ups. Apple juice also cures diarrhea attended with bloody stools. Patients of diarrhea should take peeled apples. The apple preserve is also beneficial in diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea attended with blood in the stools
Mango: Grind the mango kernel and take it mixed in butter milk. It is beneficial for patients suffering from diarrhea attended with blood in the stools.
Rose apple: Grind 20 gms of the kernel of rose apple in water and give to it the patient daily in the morning and evening. It will be beneficial.
Ber: It helps in the healing of wounds caused in the intestines by dysentery attended with blood.
Onion: Eating cut and washed onions with fresh curd is beneficial in amoebic and bloody stools.
Sugarcane: Taking sugarcane juice mixed with pomegranate juice cures the problem of bloody stools.
Coriander : Grind 15 gms of coriander seeds and add 12gms sugarcandy powder to it, mix in water and drink it . it checks the flux of blood in stools.
The patient who suffers from flatulence, should use pure desi ghee or oil fro mails. Reduce the used of red chilli and pluses to the minimum. Don’t consume alcholol.
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