Help Gas with Sitz Baths

Fall is just around the corner, and it's time for me to start adding a few blog entries every week.

To get cranked up again, I want to share something I wrote several years ago on how to use a sitz bath to cut back on gas problems.

And, no, I don't mean gasoline.

I mean nasty flatulence. Bad stinky farts.

Ugh!

Help Gas with Sitz Baths

I was passing the time the other morning, reading a paperback entitled The Natural Remedy Bible and I surprised to learn that sitz baths may provide relief from gas problems.

Of course it's best to avoid gas altogether by not eating the things that disagree with us, but, hey, most people don't choose to follow that kind of life and generally end up with some annoying gas at least on occasion.

So, the next time you splurge at the Mexican restaurant and eat the gigantic super special that contains a taco, a burrito, three kinds of enchiladas, a bowl of tripe, two tamales, and a basket of corn chips, try to ease the resulting gas problem by taking sitz baths, using the directions found in The Natural Remedy Bible:

Sitz baths are helpful for gas as well as for other abdominal ailments. Try a ten-to-fifteen-minute hot sitz bath followed by a quick cold gush to the area that was submerged; or alternate between three-minute hot and ten-second cold sitz baths, starting with the hot bath and taking each three times.

Oh, if you've never heard of a sitz bath, it involves a plastic tub that fits over your toilet or in your bathtub itself. You fill this plastic tub with water and then place your butt in it for 10 to 15 minutes.

And try to stay out of the Mexican food joints this weekend, though that's certainly something I find very difficult to do.

Chet "I Love Burritos" Day
Editor, The Natural Health Circus
http://chetday.com