Home Treatment for Diarrhoea

Dysentery is a serious condition affecting the large intestine. The pathological condition of this disease is caused by two organisms, protozoa and bacilli. When caused by the former, the condition is generally known as amoebic dysentery, and when caused by the latter, it is known as bacillary dysentery.
Home Remedies

• Bael Fruit:
  
  Among specific home remedies, bael fruit is perhaps the most efficacious in the treatment of dysentery of both varieties. One tablespoon of the pulp of the fruit, mixed with a sufficient quantity of jaggery to sweeten it, should be given thrice daily. To deal with a chronic case of dysentery, 15 gm of the unripe fruit pulp should be roasted over the fire and the pulp mixed with 250 ml of water or buttermilk.
• Lemon: very effective in dealing with ordinary cases of dysentery. Three lemons, peeled and sliced, should be added to 250 ml of water and boiled for a few minutes. The strained infusion should be administered thrice daily.
• Give about 5 gms. of Isabgol with cold water in which about 1 teaspoonful sugar has been added.
• Take every night 3 cloves of garlic chopped and boiled in milk.
• Mixjuice of 15-20 tender curry leaves with 1 teaspoon honey and drink.
• Combine 1 teaspoon each powdered ginger powdered cumin and powdered cinnamon with honey and make into a thick paste. Take 1 teaspoon thrice daily.
• Mash 1 ripe banana along with a pinch of salt and 1 teaspoon tamarind pulp. Take twice a day.
• Drinking a unsweetened black tea is very effective for stopping diarrhoea.
• Rice is useful in treating diarrhoea in children. A teaspoon of powder of charred parboiled rice, mixed with a glass of buttermilk, should be given in does of thirty grams every half an hour. This will bring excellent results.

Measures taken during Diarrhoea

To begin with, the patient should fast as long as acute symptoms are present Only orange juice and water should be taken during this period. As an alternative, the patient should subsist on buttermilk till the acute symptoms are over. Buttermilk combats offending bacteria and helps establishment of benign micro-organisms in the intestines.

After the acute symptoms are over, the patient may be allowed rice, curd, fresh ripe fruits, and skimmed milk. Solid foods should be introduced very carefully and gradually according to the pace of recovery. Flesh foods of all kinds should be avoided. Other foods which should be avoided are tea, coffee, white sugar and white flour, and alcohol in all forms.