How to Treat a Stomach Ache With Natural Medicine

Video Transcript

"Whether it's from viruses during the cold and flu season or too many meatballs at the holiday parties, everybody gets tummy aches. But here are some natural ways for you to deal with them. I'm Lauren Roy from Sugar Hollow Farm in Phillipston, Mass. One way that a lot of people know about is drinking some tea with made with mint, whether it's spearmint or peppermint, the mint relaxes your stomach muscles and helps the stomach relax and no more tummy ache. So you just put a little in a teacup and pour boiling water over it and sip it. Another way that you can alleviate a stomach ache is with ginger. This is what ginger root looks like in its unprocessed form. You can take this as it is without drying it and just put it into a teacup and steep that as well. But if you want to keep some around the house which I like to do during the season because stomach aches come on very suddenly, you can slice it into nice thin slices and put it on a cookie sheet in a low two hundred oven, or you can use your food dehydrator and it will dry out. And through the magic of online-a-vision I already have some completely dried and ready to go, so you can keep these in your canning jar, in your cabinet, for the next time somebody has a stomach ache. You can also take the little pieces and put it in a cheese grater and grind it up until you have powder. And you can make it even finer than that and keep it around for cookies. And you can make a nice cup of ginger tea with a little bit of honey in it, sipping on it slowly and that will take your tummy ache away. This is Lauren Roy for Sugar Hollow Farm in Phillipston, Mass."