Folk Remedy for the Runs

Here’s something practical and useful to share. You never know when it might come in useful and it could possibly save lives.

This is to stop diarrhea or if you’re having the runs.

Boil a handful of rice in a big pot of water e.g. 2 litres. Let it cool and drink this rice water. The person suffering from diarrhea must drink lots of it.

Doctors don’t know the why or how this rice water helps to stop the diarrhea but it certainly does. It could be the starch-like sugars in the rice water. Some babies with diarrhea can digest the starch more easily than simple sugars.

Should you find yourself in this unfortunate situation someday, you may want to try this folk remedy