Natural remedies for bloating before your period do exist, and they do a very nice job at eliminating the bloating, too. When you have bloating, it’s easy to think that you should rush off to the doctor for something. Bloating can sometimes seem like an emergency, and sometimes women even go into the emergency room for it. They can bloat that much that they imagine they are going to burst. And it’s painful, too.

How to Let The Air Out

To take down the bloating, you need something that is going to somehow release the gas that has been accumulating. It’s as if you need someone to ‘let the air out of the balloon’. So far to date, I’ve only found one method that can do that – a high colonic. Enemas at home as home remedies can help a little, but often the bloating is coming from a part of the digestive system that is much higher up at a place where you really need a colonic to release it.

During a colonic, you can actually see the pressure valve of the machine rise once it hits a mass of air. Then with a little patience, the air is moved through the intestinal tract.

All this is telling you that you absolutely must be regular with your bowel movements – and that means a bowel movement after every time you eat during the day. Otherwise, gas gets trapped up in the intestinal tract and you end up with massive bloating. This can happen at times other than during your period, and the cause always goes back to bad bowel habits.

Herbal and Food Remedies

Herbal remedies may also help decrease the bloating, but they won’t ‘deflate’ you as much as a high colonic will. Nevertheless, you can start with strong peppermint tea. The menthol groups in peppermint are what grabs the extra hydrogen atoms and pulls it to itself. With the peppermint tea, you’ll have to drink it all day long. You can never get enough of it, especially when the bloating is especially severe.

The third natural remedy you can use for bloating is another home remedy where you juice 4 apples and in between juicing the apples, add an entire bunch of mint leaves. What this will do is provide your body with plenty of easily assimilable menthol that goes straight into your cells wherever the bloating is. It literally erases the gas.

The most amazing thing is that you will start passing gas – it finally finds a way out of the body. But this time, you don’t have to worry about odor because the menthol smell comes out with the gas. Now everywhere you go, you smell like menthol – and that’s a pleasant smell to everyone except those who hate mint. Luckily there aren’t too many of these people around.

Out of all the best remedies for bloating, I personally recommend the apple mint juice the most often.

The 4th home remedy for bloating is herbs that clean you out. The best in this category is senna, but you should never take senna by itself; it’s too harsh on the body and causes cramping in the intestines. You have to add a teaspoon of peppermint or fennel with the senna (1 teaspoon) and then make tea out of it. Drink it down slowly. Stay near a bathroom because you’ll need one within a few hours.

Vitamins and Minerals For Bloating

There’s one more remedy – vitamins and minerals for bloating before period. Out of all the five remedies for bloating that have been mentioned in this article, it’s the vitamins and minerals that make the biggest difference over time.

Taking a Period Vitamin (a multivitamin, multimineral formula that includes herbs to support your reproductive tract during the entire monthly cycle is what helps improve your overall general health so you don’t get PMS problems in the first place. It’s the easiest home remedy, too, as all you have to do is pop one in your mouth every day. PMS relief can be that easy.