Food poisoning or diarrhea by food:

While traveling you will be quite often confronted with food, which is either not hygienically prepared or which contains proteins which had been gone off. Following strategies had been successful while travelling in India or Asia to deal with such situations. First I like to remind you of an old English motto for travelling in tropic countries:

Cook it, peel it or forget it!!!

This wisdom has still today its validity and lots of travelers wouldn’t have got their diarrhea when they had kept it like that.

But you can get even ill by eating old rice, so here are a few precautions and therapies for it. First you have to understand that you will produce less hydrochloric acid in your stomach when you are in a hotter climate, but this acid is necessary to kill bacteria which are in the food. Secondly is the growth of bacteria much quicker in a hot climate which means you are automatically confronted with a higher amount of bacteria. This is the reason why it is making sense to eat hot food. When food contains chilies or pepper or other spices which makes it hot the body is producing more stomach acid and the bacteria can be killed better. Any way when we have eating something wrong, I am advising the people to try these remedies:

1. Grapefruit seed extract is for me in tropic countries quite often the first and best solution!!!

    When you get the feeling that a juice, a salad or a sugarcane juice or an ice which you have eaten, might be not so good for your body or perhaps had contained water which hadn’t been clean> then take a big load of grapefruit seed extract and put it in one liter drinking water and drink this slowly over the rest of the day. In a lot of cases you won’t get the diarrhea.

1. Garlic and yoghurt

When you got diarrhea these two remedies you will get at most places in the world.

You take a cup of yoghurt and cut a whole bulb (!!!) of garlic in really small pieces and mix it together and eat this mixture. Hot, but it is really healthy!!!

The garlic will kill most bad bacteria, while the yoghurt will support your own good gut bacteria.

Don’t press the garlic, it might be too hot.

1. Arsenicum Album C30 is in my opinion the best remedy when you suspect that the reason for the diarrhea might be rotten proteins, which you might have eaten while eating for example: Old fish, chicken or Ice which had too many salmonellas, or even old rice or something similar. Symptoms, which you then will get are:
   1. Extreme weakness B. diarrhea C. often nausea, sometimes with vomiting.

In this case take a bottle of drinking water put five globule of Arsenicum Album C30  in it and shake it really well!

Drink this mixture slowly sip by sip. The last sip should be taken on the next evening after brushing teeth before you go to bed.

Don’t drink coffee while you are taking any Homoeopathic remedies, stay away from mint, menthol or everything which is smelling strong.(mosquito coils, incense sticks)

1. Charcoal tablets I don’t advise to take normally, although they are good to bind bacteria in the gut. But then I would advise to take either Magnesium Sulfuricum(Epson salt) or castor oil as a laxative to throw out the mixture of charcoal and bacteria.
2. Acidophilus or Bifidus bacteria: if you have or can get capsules with a few billion bacteria that will as well help in a lot of cases.

Careful: diarrhea is dangerous because you are losing lots of fluid and minerals. Fill up both in the right amount.

The sachets with electrolytes taste in most cases really awful! When you mix it with more water the taste is getting better or at least less awful.

Watermelon contains fluid and electrolytes

Coconut water might be as well helpful