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Q. I noticed an article on your Web site (www.peoplespharmacy.com) about coconut macaroon cookies stopping diarrhea. I am a hospice nurse, and one of my patients was literally dying of diarrhea. None of the medical treatments were helping.
After reading about macaroons stopping diarrhea, I asked my patient’s daughter if we could try giving her mom coconut milk and rice milk. She had nothing to lose. The diarrhea stopped in 24 hours, and the patient began to eat again. As a result, she began to thrive and had to leave our hospice program!
A. Flunking out of hospice is good news. We are so glad this suggestion inspired you and was so helpful for your patient with life-threatening diarrhea. We have heard from many readers that coconut is a traditional remedy for diarrhea.
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Where can we find these cookies?????????????
I have tried this remedy for diarrhea and it works. The only problem for me is that I am diabetic and my blood sugar went through the roof. I am going to try the coconut milk, though, and will comment on the results of that. By the way, I found the coconut macaroons in the cookie section of my grocery store.
How much coconut milk and/or rice milk do I use as a dose? Do you mix it with something or use it straight?
Blackberry Brandy.
ONE shot.
If you've had long term unremitting serious diarhea, even for years, you may need to swallow ONE shot of blackberry brandy for several days in a row.
It tastes terrible, but it works.
I don't know if blackberry jam might do the same thing.
I learned about this when I heard about a woman who gave her 2 year old ONE-EIGHTH of a TEASPOON of blackberry brandy in a bottle of juice, and the month long diarhea ended within 24 hours -- after lasting over [b]three weeks[/b] and not responding to any of the pediatrician's many pharmaceutical prescriptions.
The coconut sounds much easier to swallow!
Recently I had a bout of near-diarrhea 4 or 5 times a day... not quite diarrhea, but not my normal once-a-day firm BM, and definitely with urgency. This went on for several days until I was afraid to eat or drink anything. Then I remembered coconut. I had an unopened bag of unsweetened, shredded coconut in the fridge, a couple of years past its "use by" date. I opened that bag and ate two big tablespoons, dry. The rest of that day I was much better. The next morning I had toast with molasses and some coconut sprinkled on top. This has worked wonders! (I'm a vegan; I never did figure out what caused the initial episode except maybe a bit of travel and meals in unaccustomed places.)
Coconut is available at natural food stores as "desicataed (dried) coconut". There have are no sugar or chemicals added to this, as there are in supermarket sweetened coconut in the baking aisle. Also, coconut meat (from fresh coconuts) is not sweet.
I prefer not to have all the extra ingredients in the Archway coconut macaroons so I've tried the Jennies Coconut Macaroons at the health food stores and they help diarrhea, too. They have just three ingredients--unsweetened coconut, honey, and egg whites--so they're refined sugar-free and gluten-free, too.
I read that it's actually the coconut oil that does the trick--you can purchase Extra Virgin Coconut Oil in the health food stores and take a tablespoon at a time to help the diarrhea, too.