ExerciseOpen your jaws wide and while it is still open stretch the tongue inwards. Try to take the tip of your tongue towards the back of the mouth, dragging it through the roof of your mouth. Then keeping your mouth still open, bring your tongue out stretching it as much as you can.
Try touching your chin with the tip of your tongue. Do these exercise 3-4 times a day. This has to be done for a couple of months to completely heal stuttering.
Clarified Butter
Clarified butter or ghee prepared from cow milk is known for its healing properties. It is even used in ayurvedhic medicines. Cow ghee helps boost the function of brain and gives good memory power.
Have 1 table spoon after meals twice a day and it will help heal the problem of stuttering, although the progress is quite slow.
Black Pepper And Almond
Make a mixture of black pepper and almond. Add some water and sugar to this and make a fine paste. You must consume this paste every morning for atleast 2 months. The stuttering will reduce by a great extent with this natural cure.
Exercises for stammering
Exercises are effective in treatment of physiological causes of stammering. In general, exercises are meant to provide strength to the organs associated with speech including tongue, lips, jaw, trachea and lungs.
Many people who stammer have found these exercises to be beneficial in reducing the intensity and in some cases, completely curing stammering problem.
The exercises should preferably be done every night in a secluded area, before going to bed. An exercise regimen comprising of the following exercises are beneficial in treatment and cure of stammering.
Stammering Exercise #1Loudly and clearly pronounce the vowels A, E, I, O and U. Be overly articulate and distort your face strongly, every time you utter the vowels.
Stammering Exercise #2:Open your jaws as wide as you can without exerting hard. While the jaws are still open, lift your tongue upwards to touch the roof of mouth with the tip of your tongue. While still in contact with the roof of your mouth, drag the tip of your tongue towards the back of your mouth. When your tongues get stretched to the maximum (without hurting), hold there for few seconds. Next pull out your tongue outside the mouth and stretch it downwards as if attempting to touch the chin. Hold in that position for few seconds. Repeat 4-5 times.
Stammering Exercise #3: Deep breathing exercise are very effective in curing speech disorders like stammering as they help to strengthen the respiratory organs and to relax neuromuscular tension that builds up in the body.
Stammering can be controlled by learning to voluntarily control the rhythm of words by implementation of specific breathing patterns. There can be many variants of deep breathing exercises and one can choose any or all exercises which he/she is comfortable doing. Some of the variants are:
a) Inhale deeply through mouth and exhale slowly, immediately after inhalation.
b) Inhale deeply through mouth and push your tongue outside the mouth while exhaling.
c) Inhale deeply through mouth, at the same time, press your chest muscles inward. Exhale slowly
Lifestyle Changes to Treat Stammering
Fighting inferiority complex: Developing confidence in ones own ability to speak correctly is probably the only real solution to cure stammering. However building self-confidence when one makes nervous mistakes in every sentence is not easy. Inferiority complex is natural in people who stammer. Dealing with this complex is the most paramount task in overcoming stammering. Talking openly when the person approaches with the subject is vital in handling this complex. Maintaining a relaxed environment at home gives the child an opportunity to speak without stress.
Watch out your breath: As a general thumb rule, one should breathe from the belly and not from the chest. Breathing from the belly naturally calms down and relaxes nervous and muscular tension and is a helpful habit in curing stammering and related disorders.
Family support: Family support is of vital importance in treatment of stammering. Family members should use all possible means to deliver the person of his state of anxiety which is the only cause of stammering in a large number of cases. Family members must:
- Not punish or react harshly on a person who is stammering
- Listen carefully, when such a person speaks
- Adapt to speak slowly and not interrupt when a person stammers
- Be patient and wait for the person to complete words
- Not complete sentences or words when such a person is trying to speak.
Food for those who stammer
While there are no particular foods that can be used to cure stammering, some food are known to be beneficial for speech organs. For instance, chewing Indian gooseberry, Almonds, Black pepper, Cinnamon and dried dates are known to clear speech congestions. Thus they can be taken internally in moderate quantities to address symptoms of stammering.
