How to stop gas fast

Feeling a little tooty? Here's an easy-to-make tea that calms gastric chaos.

Have you been feeling a little too gassy lately?

I can fix that.

I don’t like when my gut is throwing a party, okay? Gas is basically trapped air and fermentation doing the most in your gut. It doesn’t feel good.

So the goal here is simple: calm things down and let that pressure move along naturally. And to do that, we’re going to make a simple fennel and ginger tea.

Fennel relaxes the muscles in your digestive tract so gas doesn’t get trapped, and ginger helps move things along so you’re not just sitting there bubbling like a science experiment. That’s not a vibe.

And honestly, it just feels like you’re doing something nice for your gut instead of fighting it. The best part is, you probably already have everything you need to make this tea. And if not, you can find everything you need at any grocery store.

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon fennel seeds

• Fresh ginger (a small piece, sliced or grated)

• Hot water

• A squirt of lemon

• A dash of vanilla

• 1 spoonful of honey

1. Build the base

In a clean glass, add a tablespoon of fennel seeds. Then slice a small piece of fresh ginger root and add that in. You really want to use fresh ginger.

2. Steep it

Pour hot water over it and let it steep for seven minutes.

This gives the fennel and ginger time to release all the good stuff, i.e. the compounds that actually calm down your gut and reduce gas.

3. Add the extras!

After the fennel and ginger has steeped for seven minutes, add a squirt of fresh lemon juice and a dash of vanilla (sometimes I add more than a dash). Lastly, stir in a spoonful of honey, honey.

Now it actually tastes good, which matters more than most people admit.

You can strain the tea if you don’t like the seeds, but I like to chew on them when I’m drinking it. I like a little texture. Plus, chewing the fennel seeds gives you a more direct hit of those gut-soothing compounds, so it’s like doubling down on the effect.

Drink this whenever you feel like you’re tooting a little too much. That’t what I do!

And if you’re thinking this isn’t gonna work, then don’t do it, boo-boo. Don’t do it. Stay gassy. But I don’t want you to be too tooty. And neither do others around you.

— S