HERBAL TEAS AGAINST DIARRHEA For diarrhea, the common tormentil (Potentilla erecta) proves very helpful: take a teaspoon of powdered root, pour over 5 oz boiling water, brew for 7 minutes, then strain. Drink 3 or 4 times a day before a meal. Take 2 teaspoons of dried blueberries, pour over 8.5 oz cold water and let brew overnight. Drink twice a day, eating the wet blueberries as well. If there are no herbs available use real black tea and drink it throughout the day. Unsweetened, of course! Mix 1.1 oz medicinal comfrey root (Symphytum officinale), 0.8 oz ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata), 0.8 oz common knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare), 0.8 oz field horsetail (Equisetum arvense). Take 3 teaspoons of this mixture and pour into 6.5 oz of boiling water. Drink the liquid lukewarm in small sips.
People suffering from diarrhea or dysentery can be treated to a cup of blackberry leaves tea daily: take 0.5 oz blackberry leaves and sprouts, pour over 17 oz boiling water, brew for 15 minutes and strain. Drink lukewarm throughout the day. A similar effect can be seen with a tea made from leaves and young raspberry sprouts, or from agrimony tops prepared in the same way.
Get two to four full teaspoons of chopped willow bark and pour over 17 oz cold water, allow to brew for 30 minutes, boil for a short time and strain. Drink warm 30 minutes before a meal.
Tea from blackberry plant roots was successfully used during World War 1 to cure dysentery. The dried root (collected early in spring – in February and March) is chopped into very small pieces, and 2 teaspoons of the material is to be boiled for 20 minutes in 17 oz water. The tea is drunk unsweetened and very warm. For children make the drink weaker. The root of medicinal comfrey works as a remedy for pains and cramps in the intestinal tract, and for this reason it is a very useful treatment for diarrhea and dysentery. Put 2 teaspoons of the root into 6.8 oz cold water, brew for half an hour, let it reach boiling point, take off the heat, brew for a further 5 minutes and then strain. Drink the liquid 2 times a day. A poultice against diarrhea Put 0.5 oz silverweed (Argentina anserina) into 17 oz water, boil for 5 minutes, brew for a further 5 minutes and strain. The hot poultice soothes the cramping pains of the intestinal tract.
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