Slippery Elm Bark Powder- Recommended Amount???

I started taking 1 tsp of slippery elm powder in water. I was told to take it on an empty stomach and before bed. You could take it with the Tylenol. Start with 1 tsp and slowly increase it.

I'm surprised you're taking Pred so late at night. Most often it's recommended to take in the AM as it can interfere with sleeping.

I use the capsules but this information in this thread is very helpful in case I want to do the powder!

IMO,no it really doesn't taste as bad as some say. Bottom line is it works!
The capsules just aren't as effective because they will not coate your whole alimentary canal, and when they get to your stomach, they'll still need to be broken down by the stomach.

If it's toothick just add more water, stir it and it should be less thick and more drinkable.

ManhattanMama,

Some on this forum have had great success with making it as a tea, whereas others like myself have had great success with mixing it in a little water.

I cannot speak to this personally myself as the only I've ever taken it is mixed in a little water.

Here's my suggestion: try it one way for 1 week and see how it works for you, and then try it the other way for 1 week and see if you get different (better) results, no?

Let me know how you make out.

 

@ Deltaforce
I have a preschooler and a 1 year old so there are so many germs in my household. I just felt the extra vitamin C would give me an extra boost.
Will drinking more water help avoid kidney stones?

Do you have a background in chemistry or biology? Did you do this research yourself? Any suggestions for sites or articles I should read?

This is a thread posted on my old naturopaths FB page:

Christine C. Decker, ND
If we find ourselves with a gastrointestinal inflammation, a pudding made from slippery elm bark powder can be very soothing and healing. When mixed with cold water, the powdered bark makes a demulcent, mucilaginous pudding that soothes and coats the digestive tract from fore to aft and is nutritive to its mucosal lining. It's also useful in treating coughs, as it's an antitussive. You can buy sl...ippery elm bark powder in the bulk spices section of the health food store.

To make the pudding: Mix a small amount of the powdered bark with enough cold water to make a thin gruel (the pudding thickens as it cools). Put this mixture in the fridge for a good half hour, where the cold will bring out the demulcent, or "slippery," property of the herb. Note that a little bark goes a long way! The stuff expands, so start with just a little powder as you add water to it. You can make a big batch if you want so you'll have some on hand, and you can store it in the fridge in a glass container. When you're ready to eat it, take out a pudding-sized portion and mix it with an equal part of applesauce. You can use any kind of applesauce, just make sure it doesn't contain sugar. Slippery elm bark pudding has a kind of neutral, grainy taste and is fine plain, but you can also spruce it up if you like by drizzling a little raw honey over it, or sprinkling some cinnamon on it, or doing whatever appeals to you. You can have the pudding as often as you like. Sometimes when one is ill and can take no other food, one can eat a tasty, soothing slippery elm bark pudding.

Other preparations that soothe and heal the GI tract include a tea made from licorice root and/or marshmallow root. You can find these chopped roots in the same bulk herb section of the store, and they work well both together and separately. Just simmer them in some water in a covered pot for 5 minutes or so, let stand away from heat for another 5 or 10 minutes, then strain and drink. Again, you can make up a big batch if you want (just store the tea in glass not plastic) and heat it up as the mood strikes you to have some. Calendula extract, which is so good for burns and cuts and other abrasions, is healing inside as well. Mix it with water and drink. Aloe vera juice, which has similar uses, is another option. And homemade bone broths, rich in healing gelatin and a staple in the traditional diets of virtually all the world's cultures, can be of quite dramatic benefit and can be eaten long-term, on their own with a little salt or as a base for all kinds of soups and stews: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=193145260731247&set=pu.162483673797406&type=1&theater. :o)

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I'd take 1 tbsp once a day in a mug of hot water. It is a lot but I think it helped. I took it around my medications and always 2 hours before or after my 6mp.

ManhattanMama said...
@ Deltaforce
I have a preschooler and a 1 year old so there are so many germs in my household. I just felt the extra vitamin C would give me an extra boost.
Will drinking more water help avoid kidney stones?

Do you have a background in chemistry or biology? Did you do this research yourself? Any suggestions for sites or articles I should read?

It doesn't matter with the germs, actually its a good thing. We have been made germophobe by the industry. I actually learned to be less of a clean freak since my UC diagnosis, as one of the theory of UC says, it could be as a result of your jobless immune system (no proof for this)
Drinking water will delay the kidney stones but if you have a tendency, sooner or later, it will be there. My water intake pre and post kidney stones is little over a gallon per day.

My background, I am a pharmacist by training (but never practiced and no one should take my post as a pharmacist's post as my knowledge may not be as updated as a practicing pharmacist) For the articles, I usually read scientific articles that I get from Pubmed, usually popular science is not of my taste (again I work in a academic research so I have access to majority of scientific articles).

@ BabeintheWoods,

Quite correct, actually we don't talk here about Vitamin A supplementation but recently learned than IBDers also have issues with Vitamin A absorption, so supplementation is recommended (actually for all fat soluble vitamins).

I note in your signature that you take K2, E, magnesium, could you pls comment on the brands you use, Thanks in advance,

Sorry for going off-track but I am watching this thread for comments. Got Slippery Elm 2 days ago but not taking it yet, just want to make sure that I take it correctly so that it doesn't make first wrong impression :)

BabeintheWoods,

I had started another thread on daily regiment with medications and supplements. Maybe you could talk more about your supplements and when you take them there. I find this very interesting!

Deltaforce,
Thanks for all of your insight! I also got some slippery elm and the box is still sitting next to me. I am now down to 30mg of Prednisone a night and I think that I will wait to take the slippery elm when I taper down a little further.

I got a script for generic Ambien (Zolpidem) but it did diddly. I was still up from 3-6am and feeling wired but exhausted since then. Hoping that tonight will be better. I talk to the GI on Monday about tapering the Prednisone again.

More Vitamin A? Will carrot juice be a good idea?

Hi--I know this post is old but wondering if you would recommend this ND. Thanks

seasons21 said...
This is a thread posted on my old naturopaths FB page:

Christine C. Decker, ND
If we find ourselves with a gastrointestinal inflammation, a pudding made from slippery elm bark powder can be very soothing and healing. When mixed with cold water, the powdered bark makes a demulcent, mucilaginous pudding that soothes and coats the digestive tract from fore to aft and is nutritive to its mucosal lining. It's also useful in treating coughs, as it's an antitussive. You can buy sl...ippery elm bark powder in the bulk spices section of the health food store.

To make the pudding: Mix a small amount of the powdered bark with enough cold water to make a thin gruel (the pudding thickens as it cools). Put this mixture in the fridge for a good half hour, where the cold will bring out the demulcent, or "slippery," property of the herb. Note that a little bark goes a long way! The stuff expands, so start with just a little powder as you add water to it. You can make a big batch if you want so you'll have some on hand, and you can store it in the fridge in a glass container. When you're ready to eat it, take out a pudding-sized portion and mix it with an equal part of applesauce. You can use any kind of applesauce, just make sure it doesn't contain sugar. Slippery elm bark pudding has a kind of neutral, grainy taste and is fine plain, but you can also spruce it up if you like by drizzling a little raw honey over it, or sprinkling some cinnamon on it, or doing whatever appeals to you. You can have the pudding as often as you like. Sometimes when one is ill and can take no other food, one can eat a tasty, soothing slippery elm bark pudding.

Other preparations that soothe and heal the GI tract include a tea made from licorice root and/or marshmallow root. You can find these chopped roots in the same bulk herb section of the store, and they work well both together and separately. Just simmer them in some water in a covered pot for 5 minutes or so, let stand away from heat for another 5 or 10 minutes, then strain and drink. Again, you can make up a big batch if you want (just store the tea in glass not plastic) and heat it up as the mood strikes you to have some. Calendula extract, which is so good for burns and cuts and other abrasions, is healing inside as well. Mix it with water and drink. Aloe vera juice, which has similar uses, is another option. And homemade bone broths, rich in healing gelatin and a staple in the traditional diets of virtually all the world's cultures, can be of quite dramatic benefit and can be eaten long-term, on their own with a little salt or as a base for all kinds of soups and stews: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=193145260731247&set=pu.162483673797406&type=1&theater. :o)

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