Relieve bloating with spices
- Dietitian.Lauren Hmede
- Mar 15, 2019
- 1 min read
Stomach bloating: Add these four spices to your cooking to soothe bloated stomach pain
Common conditions like bloating, abdominal pain and unpredictable bowel habits can affect your lifestyle.
Stomach bloating is usually caused by consumption of food that are hard to digest. Bust adding some food may soothe your stomach and relieves bloating.
Food inducing bloating are junk food, beans and some vegetables like cabbage.
Adding some food can really have a great effect on your stomach by enhancing digestive process. So let us know the best spices for relieving bloating.
Sebastian Pole at Pukka Herbs recommends the following four spices:
Cardamom
Cardamom boosts metabolism and improve circulations thus relieving bloating. In addition it is an effective decongestant and helps to soothe indigestion and flatulence.
Aniseed
Aniseed helps to stimulate digestion and clear the digestive system, relieving abdominal pain, flatulence and bloating. In addition it offers your body an anti-spasmodic function which relaxes the muscles of the digestive tracts.
Fennel
Like aniseed, fennel helps stimulate digestion and clear the digestive system. It is also a strong anti-inflammatory.
Turmeric
It has anti-inflammatory function and provides an anti-spasmodic functions thus relaxing muscles and preventing bloating and flatulence.
So you can add spices to your tea or even to your meals to prevent bloating. In addition having regular meal patterns and eating between 12:00-2:00 p.m. when the digestive system work the best.
Avoid large meal consumption at your dinner.
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