Herbal Remedies Blog

For vomiting due to indigestion or biliousness antiemetics are rarely indicated. One or two vomits throw the toxins out and the sick person feels better. Most of us must have been given a teaspoonful of ginger juice with sugar or concentrated aniseed water by mother or grandmother to arrest vomiting. Cumin is also commonly chewed to check vomiting as it acts as a digestive.

Here is a useful remedy for sudden vomiting and indigestion. Boil in a glass of water a few small pieces of ginger, one cardamom. A few tulsi leaves and a little aniseed. Allow the water to cool. Take an ounce thrice a day for stopping vomiting. A similar decoction can be made with the rind of lime (small or large) instead of ginger and an ounce taken thrice a day to check nausea and vomiting.

In rural India there is a very interesting practice to arrest vomiting, A piece of peacock feather with its white central rib is burst; about half a teaspoonful of this charred feather is mixed in honey and given. The dose is repeated, if necessary a few times. Even for the little infants this treatment is supposed to work effectively. However one cannot go vomiting unless one has a few feathjers in stock or has a pecocok feather fan handy  to pluck out a feather.

A more herb remedy is to fry a couple of cloves, powder them, mix in honey and lick down slowly to stop vomiting. The anesthetic  action of clove benumbs the gullet and stomach and vomiting stops.

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