Medical Futures Inc. - Iberogast®,Liquid, 100 ml 3.4 oz

I've only been using this for a few days, but it has worked very well for me. I'm not really sure what my stomach issue is, but it knocks out any nausea or stomach ache. I see a lot of people complain about the taste. I don't find that it tastes bad. I mix it in a small amount of water and drink it. I find the taste mild and not unpleasant. I will definitely be ordering another bottle. I imagine it will last awhile since you only use 20 drops 3xs per day. I will probably go to more of an as needed approach, but for now, I'm using it 3xs per day and will continue to do so as long as indicated by the way my stomach feels.

UPDATE 7/23/2017: Experimented with not using Iberogast for 3 weeks, partially to verify its effectiveness (on ME) and to save money to see if it is worth the price (again, for ME). It convinced me I benefit from Iberogast, even though many do not. I emphasize "me" because we all have different medical conditions, medications, gut flora, etc. TMI warning: Within 2 days, I was back to full-out IBS-C and losing hours of each day to the throne of agony. Saw more food bits from 8 or 10 hours earlier in my daily vomit. It has taken more than 2 weeks of regular use of Iberogast to slowly, but definitely, see Iberogast does help me. I sincerely feel bad for those who report it does not help them or the ingredients prevent them from using Iberogast.UPDATE 12/4/16: Upgraded star rating from 4 to 5 after 4 months of use. I have more energy, see less "old" food in my vomit (TMI apologies), so I do now believe this product helps as part of an improved motility plan. I also take a probiotic and have started adding in FODMAP food groups under a dietician's advice.Initial Review:The TMI Section:I've been using iberogast for nearly 2 months per advice from my dietitian. I tesed positive for SIBO, have a large hiatal hernia, GERD, and was diagnosed with gastroparesis and IBS-D. I am on long-term FODMAP elimination, that is, months, instead of the typical 2 week period. Curiously (to my gastroenterologist), I've also been vomiting 10 to 40 times daily since February 2016 (9 months as of this writing). It starts an hour or two after eating, and I drink a lot of water once it starts to avoid dehydration, hence the high number.Warning About The Ingredients:Iberogast is an herbal supplement with a long list of ingredients. Please look at the Q&A section above where someone has kindly listed the ingredients. You may have an allergy or sensitivity and need to be careful. Iberogast also has a high 30% alcohol content. Of course, no one is going to become inebriated from a 3 times daily dose. But Friends of Bill should know this could be a trigger. The scent alone is very whiskey-like, and the flavor is much like (a very bad) Scotch if you don't use enough water.How Best To Mix:Don't tap out the 20 drops first and then add water. This can create a foam that gets left behind in the glass, and you'll be wasting the product. Add to at least 1/4 cup already-poured warm water.Effectiveness?Gross-out alert .... I do see some effectiveness in digestion because I have seen the consistency of my vomit change: smoother with less chunks, which to me means the food is getting further down along the small intestine. But for actual motility? Not so much. I still see food particles that I ate up to 12 hours earlier. (Please note update above.) On the other end, so to speak, I have practically no constipation and have 2 or 3 extra hours each day to do more worthwhile things than sit around, if you (wink, wink) know what I mean.Seriously, if you are a FOB's, please do not underestimate the alcohol trigger possibility just because the actual quantity is so small. It's the scent and flavor that can get you.

As someone that has struggled with FD for several years now, I have really struggled to find anything that works. After many experiments I have been able to reduce the pain I feel by 70-75%. I know many people want to feel 100% but if you are anything like me, you have to be real with yourself. What does 100% even feel like? Because I honestly don’t remember at this point.Anyways, I digress lol. This stuff works. Is it a miracle? Meh… Is it something I will continue to take? Until I find something better, definitely yes.People give false hope on these reviews, I’m not going to tell you that this will make your dreams come true, and that you will feel better than ever. However, it will definitely reduce the pain you feel, and it will settle your stomach when your are feeling like crap. This supplement alone simply isn’t enough to me…Pair this, zinc carnosine, quercetin, and peppermint gum (my favorite is Orbit). That will mask the pain. For me that is about 50% of my 70-75% improvement. The remaining amount is from amitriptyline.If you have FD it will take a lot of different options to reduce the pain. Now I will say this improvement is assuming I am living my typical day to day life without too many extenuating circumstances. Stress is certainly something that needs to be addressed as well. With stress your entire body presents an inflammatory response. So please take that into consideration.I have spent countless hours researching, crying in pain, and bothering others with my symptoms. So many people try to bring false hope and tell you there really is a silver bullet. That simply isn’t how life works. Hope is a form of torture that we put ourselves through. Hope is operating under the assumption that everything is awful in the present moment. Hope is an intangible wrung you try to grab on to, in order to lift yourself out of misery.When people write reviews on supplements like these. They write them at their highest moment, because for a brief moment their pain is reduced, or gone completely. So they feel this incessant need to share with others. What people often leave out, is the next day after they went too hard on trigger foods. Or when they decided to test their limits and went back into another episode of pain.I just have to be real with you. I wish I had a reality check left in random places as I went through my research to realize the goal is to feel healthy. The goal is to reduce the pain as much as possible so you can at least enjoy some of the things you used to be able to enjoy. If you keep chasing the goal of being back to 100% you are setting yourself up for failure.Be kind to yourself and your body. Life is so short, try to cut yourself some slack. It truly is exhausting to chase your perception of the way things should be.