Nature's Way Slippery Elm Bark, Soothes Gastrointestinal Inflammation, 100 Vegetarian Capsules (2 Pack)

These are supposed to help get your bowels functioning a bit more normal from what I've read and it did exactly that. Had diarrhea or very loose stool (sorry to be graphic but this is the GI for ya), within within about 48 hours had a very nice solid bowel movement and have been taking them for about a week and every bowel movement has been solid, well formed, smooth and comfortable. I started doing 4, 3 times a day for a couple days but have forgotten a couple times and realized I just need to do 2-6 or so daily, spread out between meals and away from other vitamins or medications. For the past week or so I've had great bowel movements. Had two days where I was a bit constipated but I think it was just from eating out but then today it once again was still a great BM, well-formed, solid. Not hard and painful like those of you have had constipation know of.I have been diagnosed with IBS/functional abdominal pain and some gastritis. I do think when I first take these they irritate the stomach a little because I'll get some mild discomfort but seems that once things calm down after an hour or so and these start to leave the stomach, then they go to work in the intestines. I think they still may overall help my stomach as well but there is just a little minor irritation pain I've noticed for the first 30 minutes or so after I take them for some reason but the bowel movement benefits (the BMB) are easily worth it. You can learn a lot from your BM's and it's great to look down at the potty and see a gorgeous turd.Now slippery elm is a "natural" medicine so always be cautious and careful and take it slow, I had taken these before about a year ago so went straight into a higher dose but best to start slow and see how it feels but also give them a little time. It wasn't instantly helpful after 12 hours or even 24, was about 48 before I was like okay this is helping. But for some it may be slower. Also again this can interfere with other medications' absorption so take away from meals and meds.Hope this is helpful!

Best thing ever for sore guts. I've used this product for years.If you don't take it in capsule form you have to drink it down in powder form and that is never nice. With capsules I can get my kids to down a few of them for upset tummies. Cramps, diarrhea, you name it.It costs and soothes the entire stomach and intestinal tract.It's hard to help really aching bellies and as a parent I feel super helpless but with these slippery elm capsules I feel like I'm helping. I know they help me and my gut pains.I went to a pharmacist and asked about tummy relief and asked about slippery elm. He looked at me as if I was asking for a hammer for a toothache. He said he dealt in medicine. I said yeah this is. Have you never heard of it? He said no. We learnt real things. I said oh dude, open your eyes. There are so many natural remedies that are as effective as company drugs. You still have so much learning to do.I then said, trust me, I've been doing drug research as a scientist for the last decade and I still know this stuff helps. Don't close your mind to anything that can help

I wanted to wait to review the product. I have GERD and a hiatal hernia which has created chronic problems with esophagitis and gastritis and lately esophageal strictures, all of which aggravated my IBS. I have tried just about every prescription and non-prescription drug over the past 5 years and none of them were even remotely effective in controlling the problems, a couple even made the problems worse. I was told I was facing surgery if we couldn't find something that worked. So I started researching alternatives. I've been using Slippery Elm since late June 2017 and have only had one brief incident of gastritis and esophagitis since then and far less incidents of IBS flare ups. I started out taking the capsules which worked great during the day, but not so much at night, so I started emptying 2 (4 if I'm having symptoms) of the capsules into a mug adding a teaspoon of raw honey to make it a little more palatable, hot/warm water and drinking that every night before bed which seems to work very well for me for night time.A word of warning though, this coats your stomach etc linings so it can and will interfere with other medications, vitamins etc you may be taking.

Works great.

These are big capsules that normally work for me. I just drop two in a cup of hot green tea and after 5 minutes give it a good stir and drink it slowly.I have been using this same product for 3-4 years with good results. This time it doesn’t seem to be working as well, maybe due to a different problem in my throat. This time I have an itchy throat and a cough whereas normally it’s just sore due to GERD. Hope this helps.