Step-by-step guide to recover from an upset stomach. It may sound simple, but this traditional remedy got me back on track with my life in just a few hours. Guessing grandmothers are always right when it comes to health tips and natural remedies.
Last Christmas, I got sick. If I’ve got a weak spot, it’s food, especially seafood. I guess eating a dozen oysters in a day is a bit like playing Russian roulette… and I lost.
I happened to be visiting my grandma quite early on Christmas Eve when one of her friends came by to give her a present: two dozen freshly picked oysters! (I know, wish I had friends like that!).
Turns out, most of my family doesn’t eat them, so my dad and I decided to go ahead and eat them all for lunch (yes, all of them, in one go…).
I don’t want to go into details, but you can imagine what happened the following day. I don’t remember being that sick ever, and of course my dad was feeling fine (eye roll…)
I called my grandma to tell her about the oysters, in case she was given more, and she told me exactly what to do to stop the vomiting and ahem… everything else!
Phase 1: Recovering from an upset stomach:
Sugary chamomile recipe
Note: I don’t normally eat refined sugar, but it was not the time to experiment with honey or go to the shop to find raw cane sugar, so I just went all in with what I had at hand. Pure, simple white sugar dissolved in chamomile tea.
Ingredients:
- 1 bag – chamomile tea
- 1 cup – boiling water
- 2 tbsp – white sugar
Instructions:
- Brew the chamomile, stir in half a tablespoon of sugar, and continue to add in as much sugar as you can, half a tablespoon at a time, until you see that some grains don’t get dissolved.
- Wait for the drink to cool down.
Drink it teaspoon by teaspoon. This is important! Have the first teaspoon and wait for 20mi20 minutes you feel fine, have another teaspoon and wait again.
If you don’t feel sick after the first two teaspoons, have two or three the following time and wait again. Keep adding a bit more until you get tired of spooning that sugary drink. For me, it was halfway through. If you are expecting it to be nice… don’t!
Wait a couple of hours after the last chamomile with sugar before moving to the next phase.
Phase 2: Recovering from an upset stomach:
Bone broth or home-made chicken broth
If you have bone broth at home, yay!! You’ve probably never been so happy to have bought or made bone broth before. If you don’t and don’t have anyone who can buy it for you or it’s hard to find, just make chicken broth.
Home-made chicken broth recipe
Ingredients:
1 whole chicken leg (skinned, it’s better), or 2 thighs or drumsticks. You want the bones but not the skin, so wings are not ideal for this.
2 medium carrots
1 tsp – salt
Instructions:
Pour water into a saucepan and add all the ingredients. Bring it to a boil before reducing the heat.
Let it cook for 20 minutes.
Remove the chicken and carrots and reserve. Serve only the broth.
Wait for the chicken broth to cool down. If you are using bone broth, you can warm it up slightly, but again, you don’t want the liquid to be hot hot.
- Pour half a cup and drink it, tablespoon by tablespoon, like you did with the chamomile. Just using a bigger spoon this time.
You don’t want your broth to be fatty. There’s nothing wrong with fat, but it’s not the best option when you are dealing with an upset stomach, as it takes s longer time to digest. - You may be tempted to drink water. Don’t! Broth contains minerals and micronutrients that will not only feed your aching body but will also help the liquid stay inside. Water will most likely come out again very quickly…
Wait a couple of hours to make sure your body is liking the broth. After that, keep drinking broth for the rest of the day.
You’ll be able to start re-introducing food on day 2 if you followed the first steps.
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