These are suggestions I’ve come across. But I don’t know your body and how they would work for you.
· Apple juice daily. (Not on FODMAP diet) Apple and spinach juice for a stronger brew. Other useful juices are cabbage raspberry cataloupe blackberry wheatgrass boysenberry date and fig plum prune radish rhubarb banana blueberry pea quince.
· Apples: An apple a day (Not on FODMAP diet)
· Eat fibre in food ?up to 30gm per day?. Psyllium husks apple pectin guar gum alginate and bran are useful sources along with naturally high fibre foods.
Apple cider vinegar
· Cayenne pepper stimulates bowels
· Vitamins A folic acid B (especially B5 – pantothenic acid 250mg daily) and C (in moderate doses) are good for the bowels.
· Paw paw: Have some papaya (paw paw) every day. It contains papain a key digestive enzyme.
· Oils: Include some good oils in your diet to assist in lubricating the flow of faecal matter through your bowel (olive oil flax oil)
· Licorice daily for the bowels and the lungs. (NOT CONVINCED)
· Yoghurt: Protect your good bowel bacteria by avoiding anti-biotics except in very extreme circumstances and having yoghurts or acidophilous supplements regularly.
· Yoghurt: The bowel is part of the process of developing immunity to infections. Infections in mucus passing through the digestive tract are identified there and responded to aggressively. The good bowel bacteria also play an important part in this immunity process so where tenacious infections are involved (children’s ear infections sore throats) eat more yoghurt.
· Various foods herbs and teas are good for the bowel: ginger fenugreek ginseng alfa alfa peppermint tea seaweed beans and pulses aloe vera prunes spinach avocadoes pumpkins very ripe bananas baked apples raw honey for diarrhoea ordinary or green tea slippery elm garlic licorice apples apple juice paw paw dock root tea (Chinese) chamomile tea before going to sleep.
· Lemon juice: Juice of a lemon in water on arising and before going to bed
· The Chinese recommend balancing foods by taste: sweet sour bitter salt chilli
· Charcoal: If you have smelly farts try taking charcoal. It absorbs odour.
· B vitamins: If you have smelly breath it may well come from poor digestion. Increase B vitamins.
· Garlic onion figs pumpkin seeds sesame seeds turmeric wormwood salt cloves: De-worm regularly. Garlic and onions in the diet every day for 10 days will break the worms’ reproduction cycle. Figs pumpkin seeds sesame seeds turmeric wormwood salt cloves and oregano