Natural oils that soothe digestive pain and problems

Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, can completely take over your life. You’re left never knowing if you’ll be fine and able to spend time with your family or if you’ll have to rush to the bathroom, ruining all your plans.

If you’ve ever been given one of the standard treatments to help with your IBS, you know the horrible side effects those come with, like depression, confusion, headache and nausea.

Mainstream medicine wants to stop the symptom of muscle contraction, and so they try to relax the smooth muscle of the gut. But these treatments also cause constipation.

I don’t know how you feel about it, but if you’re anything like me you don’t want to compound one issue with another.

Peppermint oil and ginger are the usual natural alternatives recommended by most practitioners.

However though it’s not as well-known, the oil of the nigella sativa seed — black seed oil, or simply golden oil — could also provide relief to a painful gut.

Used for thousands of years, it’s reported to help decrease bloating, gas and cramping. If you are familiar with golden oil, you know it supports a healthy and balanced inflammatory and allergic response, and my research tells me that’s exactly why it helps relieve IBS symptoms.

The medical community is torn as to whether IBS is a true autoimmune issue. But it seems to carry a lot of the systemic effects typical of an autoimmune disease — namely inflammation and an overactive immune response.

My personal experience is that anytime my gut is not feeling right, golden oil seems to get everything back in balance.

Oils for gut health are certainly nothing new. How many of us grew up with a mother fond of pulling out the castor oil from time to time?

Though I steer clear of castor oil these days, clearly, peppermint oil is an excellent option for controlling your IBS symptoms without all of the side effects brought on by those prescriptions. And black seed oil appears just as helpful — if not more — since it contains the immune system boosting compound known as thymoquinone.

Peppermint oil is easy to find in gel caps both in health stores and online. And I keep the highest-quality black seed oil — Peak Golden Oil — in my medicine cabinet at all times.

Other ways to optimize your colon health and overcome your IBS include:

• Take aloe vera — According to the results of a scientific study, aloe vera can reduce abdominal pain and discomfort as well as gas in patients with constipation-dominant IBS.

• Add inulin — Studies have shown a link between the composition of your gut microbiome (in other words, how much healthy bacteria you have in your gut) and the severity of your IBS symptoms. Inulin is a natural prebiotic found in chicory root that helps support the natural production of beneficial bacteria in your colon by providing the intestinal fertilizer needed for healthy gut flora.

Sources:

everydayhealth.com/drugs/lomotil
sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081114081010.htm
emedicinehealth.com/drug-dicyclomine/article_em.htm
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3872617/
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4734998/

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