Digestive disorders, remedies

N.A. Carvone, limonene, flavonoids, coumarins, xanthones, triterpenes.99,100,107 Used for infant colic, cough, cold and flu remedies. It relieves digestive disorders. 

The well-known and widely used Dillwater is a sound remedy for children s digestive disorders, particularly wind in stomach or bowels. Dose, 1 to 8 drachms. The oil is also given in 1 to 5 drop doses. 

Golden Seal has proved itself to be a very valuable remedy in digestive disorders and in debilitated conditions of mucous membranes. Its use is indicated in various gastric complaints, and it may be taken with advantage by most dyspeptics in doses of 10 grains of the powdered root. 

Africa, Asia, America Pulp laxative, digestive, carminative, remedy for biliousness and bile disorders, febrile conditions (i)... 

Arrowroot starch is obtained from the rhizomes of the tropical plant Maranta arundi-nacea L. and related species cultivated in the West and East Indies, Australia and elsewhere. Arrowroot starch has been a home remedy for gastrointestinal disorders, especially in Britain, since it is reputedly the most digestible starch. It is made into puddings by heating it in milk and is blended with eight parts of wheat flour in arrowroot biscuits. It is also used in jellies, cakes and various infant and invalid food mixtures. What is marketed as arrowroot starch from some locations may be tapioca starch. If arrowroot starch is required, its identity should be verified. 

Tamarind preparations are universally recognized as refrigerants for fevers, and as laxatives and carminatives. Alone, or in combination with lime juice, honey, milk, dates, spices or camphor, the pulp is considered to be effective as a digestive, even for elephants, as a remedy for biliousness and bile disorders, and as an antiscorbutic (8). The laxative properties of the pulp and the diuretic properties of the leaf sap have been corfirmed by modem medical science (Bueso, 1980, cited in (5)). 

Remedy for Acidity of Stomach. This is a common symptom of weak or disordered digestion, and should bo treated with small doses 3 or 4 times daily of tbo carbonate or bicarbonate of potassa, soda, or ammonia or of sal-volatile or ammonia water, to which some tonio bitter may bo added. Diet should be light and nutritious, with os much out-door exercise os posiuble. The bowels should bo kept regular by the oooa sionnl use of some mild aperient. 

Traditional use Valerian is used as a sedative, carminative, and vermifuge, as an aid in digestion, and to treat hypercondria, psychological traumas, hysteria, migraines, convulsive pains, heart pains, heart failure, epilepsy, insomnia, and anxiety (Turova and Sapozhnikova 1984 Altimishev 1991). A decoction or tincture is used as a heart remedy, a sedative to treat nervous disorders, as well as to treat headaches, and cancer, and to improve the appetite. It is used in a bath to relax hyperactive children so they sleep well and to treat hysteria, convulsions, acute typhus, epilepsy, and internal aches (Kurochkin 1998). 

Traditional Medicine. In Europe, the herb has reportedly been used to promote renal function digestive elimination an adjuvant in weight loss products (bradly). American Indian groups used plant tea for kidney and bladder ailments and constipation. In India, horsetail is used as a diuretic, hemostatic root as an analgesic for teething babies. A folk remedy for bloody urine, gout, gonorrhea, stomach disorders poulticed for wounds (foster and duke). 

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