5 Sour Stomach Remedy and Relief Tips

There are a few common things in life that can make a good day go bad very quickly. Missing your bus on the way to an important job interview comes to mind; getting flat tire in the middle of rush hour traffic, or having your phone die while looking for your date at a Bruce Springsteen concert and realizing you left your charger at home (hey, that’s common enough).

One thing that definitely makes the list is finding yourself with a severe stomach ache. You can’t move comfortably, you can’t eat, you probably have to fight to keep whatever you have eaten down. A sour stomach can come from different things, usually something you’re eaten that was a little past its expiration date. The good news is that there are home remedies you can employ to make the discomfort a little bit more manageable. Here are 5 tips to try out the next time you find yourself with a sour stomach.

1. Club Soda or Ginger Ale

One of the most common home remedies for a sour stomach, and something that you’ve probably tried before, is good old club soda (or any clear soda such as Sprite, 7-Up or Ginger Ale). It won’t fix the more severe cases, but something about the carbonation of soda without a lot of excess syrup seems to ease mildly upset stomachs. For more serious cases, some people will throw a half dozen drops of bitters in a club soda. We don’t suggest you try to drown a sore stomach in booze (that would definitely backfire) but the pungent herbs in bitters suffused into a clear soda has a soothing effect on a sour stomach that many people swear by.

2. Drink Tea

You’ll want to be careful with this, because there are many different types of tea and not every one is necessarily going to be all that helpful in settling an unhappy tummy. Still, tea is wonderfully efficacious as a healing agent in general, and certain teas are known to help with upset stomachs. Try peppermint tea (in fact, peppermint has stomach soothing properties in many forms, including sucking on mint candy or just chewing on the leaves). Studies have also shown rice teas to be very effective. Keep a few different kinds handy for the next time your stomach needs soothing.

3. Apply Heat

Sometimes an upset stomach just doesn’t want anything else going in it. If that’s the way you feel, a heating or warm, moist towel can be a useful way to get your tummy to settle down. Particularly if your belly ache is a result of a flu like sickness you can find great relief by laying down under a heated pad, hot water bottle, or even snuggling up in an electric blanket. Let your body relax, keep warm, and take it easy until you start feeling better again.

4. Low Fiber, High-Binding Foods

If you’re stomach is upset, you’re probably not just worried about keeping your food down, you’re probably also a little wary of its passing through you unpleasantly in the proper direction. Diarrhea is no fun, but you can help settle your stomach and mitigate those kinds of symptoms by eating low fiber, high-binding foods. These would include items like bananas, rice, applesauce, even toast (burnt toast is even better, as a matter of fact). The good thing about these foods is that they don’t have any grease, little if any sodium, no spices – none of the kinds of things that would inflame your symptoms. At the last same, the low-fiber content and the binding quality of the foods ensures that they won’t pass through you too quickly…you’ve suffered enough, after all.

5. Fiber Friendly Fruits

Of course, sometimes when it comes to passing food the problem is just the opposite, and your stomach hurts because constipation is stopping you up. If that’s the case, you’ll want to turn to delicious high fiber fruits like cherries, apricots, raisins, and of course prunes to get you going again. If you want to treat yourself a little in the process, eat them with some plain yogurt. Plain yogurt won’t likely upset your stomach any further, and it is delicious with berries.

So don’t fear; next time you have a stomach ache, or if you have one now, try some of these easy home remedies. Odds are you’ll be on the road to recuperation sooner than you think.

6. Burnt Toast

If you have heard that eating burnt toast is not suitable for you because it might contain carcinogens.When you have an upset stomach, you can always rely on burnt toast as this will absorb the toxins that have caused your stomach to be upset in the first place.

When indigestion causes your upset stomach, it may help to eat fennel seeds so your body can have an easier time digesting the foods you have eaten.

7. Fennel Seeds

Fennel seeds act as an anti-inflammatory which coats your stomach to help you digest food already eaten. It contains a substance called anethole which is an organic substance in the form of volatile oil that can help the production of digestive juices.

8. Cinnamon

 If indigestion causes your upset stomach to try CinnamonCinnamon is known as the natural spice that is used as an ingredient in many desserts.

It can stimulate your digestive system so that you will pass stools easier which can lessen the discomfort that you are feeling because of your condition.Directionput 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder in 1 cup of boiling waterLet it stand for 5 minutes.Stir cinnamon mixture then start sippingdrink this about 1-3 times a day for a few days.

9. Activated Charcoal

Activated charcoal will alleviate the same symptoms as burnt toast. Use This is if you suspect that you are having stomach problems because of something that you ate or drank.The activated charcoal will search for the toxins causing the issues and remove them from your body.DirectionYou may need to ask your doctor for the right amount of activated charcoal that you can take a day.Use this every day for three days.Stop using after three days as this can cause problems with how the body absorbs nutrients from the food that you eat.