Diarrhoea and dysentery

Historical remedies

The following claims come from the historical source; they are not verified treatment recommendations.

• When there is frequent diarrhoea-vomiting in fever, half the waste can be cured by drinking half-sugared ghana and grapes soaked in water, mashed and strained. [18]
• Drinking a decoction of chitu bark stops diarrhoea. [19]
• Drinking the ashes of dates with cold water stops diarrhoea. [19]
• Licking the ashes of cardamom in honey stops diarrhoea. [19]
• Drinking a little salt and lemon juice in slightly warm water cures diarrhoea and dysentery. [19]
• Eating five tulsi leaves and two grams of sanchal salt in 50 grams of curd cures diarrhoea and dysentery. [19]
• Dysentery is cured by consuming butter, honey and sugar. [19]
• 7 Dysentery is cured by taking a mango pulp mixed with curd or rice flour. [19]
• Taking pepper powder in buttermilk cures dysentery. [19]
• Eating fenugreek flour in curd cures dysentery. [19]
• Dysentery is cured by taking black grapes in fenugreek vegetable juice. [19]
• Applying the juice of ginger cures diarrhea and dysentery. [19]
• Dysentery is cured by mixing dried ginger with hot water and making a decoction of dried ginger and adding 3 rupees worth of castor beans to it. [19]
• Dysentery is cured by heating lemon juice with rock salt and sugar. [19]
• Extracts of ajwain, harad, rock salt and asafoetida cure dysentery. [19]
• Dysentery is cured by roasting indrajava on a tawi and grinding it into two tola (original unit) twice a day. [20]
• A decoction of dried mango flowers cures any chronic dysentery. [20]
• Boiling eight and eating grated onion in it stops the blood in diarrhoea. [20]
• Licking some sesame and sugar bowl in honey stops the lodi falling in diarrhoea. [20]
• Boiling kokum ghee and taking it every two hours stops diarrhoea. [20]
• Boiling raw papaya in water cures diarrhoea. [20]
• Half a spoonful of nutmeg rubbed in water and licked in the morning and evening stops diarrhoea. [20]
• If diarrhoea occurs during teething, roasting javantri powder on a pan and giving it to mother's milk with honey cures diarrhoea. [32]
• If there is watery diarrhea while teething, after removing the kernels from the corn cob, burning the corn cob and soaking its husk (one or two walls) in water or buttermilk stops the diarrhoea. [32]
• By rubbing nutmeg and dried ginger in the cow's stomach and rubbing it, the child gets rid of diarrhea caused by common cold. [33]
• Fresh buttermilk made with one-fourth water in curd is excellent for diarrhoea. [59]
• A powder of bitter bark cures the need of agave medicine for dysentery. [59]
• Taking dried ginger powder with Magha stops diarrhoea. [60]