The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowin’ in the Wind

So, besides reaching for fennel and other supplements and herbs to get rid of this antisocial problem before it strikes, let’s take a quick look at how and why those things that cause the problem can be handled.
Proper food combining takes a little work, but it will help your digestion. When you eat foods together that are not complementary for each other, this can be considered poor food combining.
Let’s just cover the very basics of food combining:

• In general, do not eat starches and proteins together.
• Do not eat fruit on a full stomach (empty stomach only).
• Do not combine fruits with any other food besides other fruits.
• Do not eat more than one concentrated food (starches and proteins) at any one meal. To demonstrate, eat only fruit in the morning. For dinner or lunch, if you have a steak or some type of meat, have a salad or other green vegetables with it, and leave out the bread and cheeses. Or, have a big salad and add a concentrated food, such as cheese or beans or meat—but choose only one.

Gas: Dispelling the Myths with the Right Herbs

Food enzyme supplements, especially those with hydrochloric added, will help your body break down foods that have been cooked. (Cooked foods kill the live enzymes in our foods, leaving our pancreas and liver to make up for the extra production of missing enzymes.) If you find a good enzyme tablet, take the tablet or capsule about 20 minutes before you eat. This gives the supplement a chance to begin breaking down in the stomach before you eat. Some people purchase food enzymes in capsules and open up the capsule and sprinkle it on their cooked foods before eating. If you forget to take your enzyme supplement before a meal, take one after or during your meal anyway.

Eat Here, Get Gas, Take Fennel

Have you ever seen those signs outside those rural roadside gas station restaurants? Eat here, get gas? Well, most of them don’t know what a prophetic sign that is—and if they were smart, they could sell a bottle of fennel capsules to you on your way out! Fennel (Foeniculum vlagare) is an herb that has historically been used to eliminate gas, colic, diarrhea, indigestion, nausea, and vomiting. Fennel has an affinity for the digestive and intestinal tract; primarily, the seeds from this plant are used for digestion. The raw seeds are served or offered in many restaurants in India and Nepal, similar to how restaurants in the United States give out peppermint candy at the end of a meal. For intestinal gas, take fennel tea or capsules right after meals. You can also chew on the raw seeds if you like their licorice taste.
In herbology terms, fennel acts as a carminative, which makes it effective for the subject we are talking about here. For colic in babies, fennel is effective for breastfeeding moms to take. No known side effects exist for fennel, and—as far as we know—it is completely safe even in high doses.