Eleven Natural Colic remedies

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Dear Moms

 

You may have spent sleepless nights worrying about baby having

stomach ache/colic. Other than mothers milk, nothing suits babies

upto 2 years. Switch to formula causes colic. Mothers diet also

sometimes causes colic.

 

Collection from grandmas and moms, aunties, etc is here. Handed over

to the author by a obstetrician friend. Author too added something

Most of it may be already known to you. Thought it may be sueful. If

you wish to add to it, please and pass on to next generation.

 

1. Just get into a hot bath with the baby. Both of you will relax

and the colic will quickly disappear. You and the baby will be able

to sleep thereafter.

 

2. Pure (Extra virgin) Olive Oil works great for babies with colic.

Give them a teaspoon full, and in 15-20 minutes, they are quiet. It

not only coats the stomach, but it helps when they use the rest

room.

 

3. Take a quarter of a small onion and boil it in a small sauce pan.

After about five minutes of boilng, take 2 oz of broth and 2 oz of

cold water, and 1 tsp of jaggery and place in a bottle. Give bottle

to baby. This helps the desire to suck, and the onion breaks up the

gas. Child stops crying and is back to sleep in 15 minutes. For

those not having jaggery can use karo syrup or honey.

 

4. Steep fennel seeds for 10 minutes. Give 1/2 to 1 oz as needed

(luke warm). No sweetner please.

 

5. In author's childhood, Gripe water was available, which also used

to work. Procedure to make this water: Take 250 ml water and add 2

tsp each of Cotrander seeds, cumeen seeds, ajwain seeds, anise seeds,

dil seeds, Vidanga seeds if available. All seeds to be coarsely

ground before adding to water. Slow boil till water remains 100 ml.

Strain and gripe water is ready. Vidanga takes care of parasites too.

 

 

6. Find an orange tree, pick some leaves off of it, wash them, make a

tea of them by boiling them in water which also sterilizes the tea,

and add a little jaggery or honey.

 

7. Take hot water bottle (the rubber kind) a towel and heat water to

fill bottle to 50%. Wrap it in towel (so you don't burn the baby).

Place it in the middle of the babies bed. Place the baby on top of it

with the bottle immediately under the babies stomach. Pat the baby's

back gently until it goes to sleep.

 

8. Many colic situations arise as a result of gas entrapped in

stoamch. Dissolve a peppermint candy in hot water and give baby even

15-20 ml would be adequate. Allow baby to blurp the gas.

 

9. This is something unusual. Try it as last option. Take small

bottle and fill it up with about 25 ml beer. Shake well so that all

bubbles and gas passes out of bottle. Give to baby and see the

miracle.

 

10. In remedy#3, instead of quarter onion, substitute two cloves of

garlic and a new remedy results. Adding a little jaggery would take

care of pungent taste.

 

11. Take 2 tsp coocking oil. sesame oil would be best. heat it. when

fumes start coming, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 pinch turmeric powder, 1

pinch ajwain powder. when garlic turns golden brown, add a pinch of

asfoetida and remove from fire immediately. When oil cools to warm

temperature, apply it around belly button of baby and massage

lightly. Baby will pass gas and sleep.