"There are lots of old wives' tales [about reducing flatulence] -- people use bicarbonate of soda, ginger, sulfur, castor oil -- a whole series of them.
Many herbs, for instance fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), lavender, peppermint, rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) and sage (Salvia officinalis), have been used traditionally as digestives, aiding digestion or reducing flatulence [ 67, 68, 70].
And historian Ruth Goodman investigates how sweets were first invented and discovers that, in the Middle Ages, they were used as a medicine and thought to reduce flatulence.
Foods known to reduce flatulence include fish, rice, dairy products, fish and strained fruit juice – since they leave less waste in the gut for fermentation.
When people tell you that soaking reduces flatulence, they're operating under the mistaken assumption that the bean leaks those sugars into the water.
Finally, as expected, all three treatments reduced flatulence, a symptom that importantly decreases the patient's quality of life.
Walking, running, and playing are good ways to reduce flatulence by encouraging gut movement.
When this is tried, however – as it was, for example, by Ed Davey's Department of Energy and Climate Change, in the form of a £15m grant to tackle Colombian greenhouse gas emissions by reducing cattle flatulence – it doesn't exactly fly well with aid sceptics.
There are medical products that can reduce dog flatulence.
He backed environmental causes such as promising to reverse "scaled down rules" the Bush administration had applied to the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts and dealing with the potential effects of global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, livestock flatulence and other sources.
Furthermore, it remains unclear which organisms are most effective as, for instance, some mainly reduce bloating and flatulence, 209 210 218 whereas others improve bowel frequency, 222 and some have a positive effect on global symptom scores.
