Baby Colic!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I Have A Good Remedy

by Albert Garcia
(Los Angeles, CA)

Our baby girl has been suffering from colic sine she was 3 weeks old. Our baby was not breast fed but was bottle fed with formula. We believe the bottles and formula gave the baby colic. We tried to change the bottle but that did not work.

Finally we listened to my mother and father about a CUBAN remedy. The remedy was to boil some drinking water and once it starts to boil put in some Star Anise. ( Find a picture of Star Anise here.) You could usually find it in a the Latino section of the market where all the teas and dry herbs are at.

Leave the star anise in the water for about 5min the drain the water through a strainer. Let the water cool down a bit.

Our baby is drinking 4oz. So what we do is split it in half (2oz of water with anise and 2 oz baby water).

TRUST ME THIS HAS WORKED SO MUCH FOR US. She no longer cry's from COLIC. I would like to know if this remedy worked on your baby as it has on ours?

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Baby Colic!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I Have A Good Remedy

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May 07, 2009

A word of caution
by: Paula (Easy Baby Life)

Hi Albert,

Thanks a lot for sharing your experiences with a remedy that helped your baby. Actually, I am not surprised, because star anise, just as "regular" anise is a herb known to help bloated stomachs as is actually also know to help for infant colic.

However, back in 2003 and 2004, there was some research that found that a number of babies as well as adults that had used herbal tea with star anise had shown signs of intoxication, such as jitteriness, hyperexcitability, nystagmus, vomiting, myoclonic movements, and seizures.

Therefore, FDA recommended that star anise should be used to treat infant colic.

The conclusions from the research was that it might be so that these teas not only included Chinese star anise, which is safe, but also Japanese star anise, which does contain some toxins.

On the other hand, it could not be excluded that the infants has actually been poisoned by the Chinese star anise.

You can read about one of the studies on infant colic and star anise here.

Due to this, FDA recommends against using star anise for colic.

However, there is another related herb that you can try - anise. Use 1 tea spoon of anise seeds in one cup of water. Boil for a few minutes, cool down and feed to your baby 1 or 2 tea spoons with every meal.

From what I've read, anise is considered completely safe.

Sorry if I let you down, Albert, but I thought this information was important to provide!

Paula

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