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February 2, 2009
By Susan M. Callahan, Associate Editor and Featured Columnist
If you have ever suffered the agony of heart burn, also called acid
reflux or GERD if it occurs more than twice a week, then you know the
real meaning of the old phrase "fire in the belly". Here are
tried-and-true natural home remedies for heart burn.
Crackers and Milk. Studies of stomach disorders have shown that
people who suffer from heartburn, called acid reflux, do not have
excess acid in their stomachs. They have too little of the right kind of
food to neutralize the acid. Acid is not the foreign alien in your
stomach-- it is at home. It belongs there. Acid is always present in
your stomach. Your stomach in fact is nothing but a bag of acid. Your
esophagus is like a garden hose connecting your mouth to this little
bag of acid. So, you eat. Food travels from your mouth, down the
garden hose, and then is dumped into the bag of acid, where it begins
to dissolve. No problem. Acid causes a problem for you when it
sloshes back up out of the safe confines of your stomach, where it
belongs, and spills up into the upper esophagus, where it doesn't
belong. It then literally burns the delicate lining of your esophagus,
causing the sensation you know as heartburn.
To kill the burning quickly, you need to douse the acid with a
neutralizer. Crackers and milk help. The white crackers act like a
sponge, soaking up the acid. The milk then carries the little sponges
now filled with acid back into your stomach.
When you eat food that doesn't soak up acid, neutralizing it, or which
either floats on top of the acid (very greasy, fatty foods) or doesn't
mix well with acid (spicy foods), you increase your risk of heartburn.
Raise Your Head. Again,think of the garden hose. If you raise your
head, gravity will help you to push the acid down from the garden
hose back into the stomach. It's no accident that most people suffer
heartburn at night. They lie down at night. Lying down makes it easier
for the acid to flow from the stomach to the garden hose. So, raise
your head. Adding height will create and angle that reduces the
heartburn. Go get an extra pillow. Make that two extra pillows.
Apple Sauce. The apple sauce has the consistency of slush. The slush
coats your garden pipe, sticking to the outer walls. That's why it
works to quickly douse the flames of heartburn.
Aloe Juice. Aloe is one of the very best natural remedies for
heartburn.It is thick, it has a pH balance that neutralizes acid. You can
drink aloe juice not just to stop heart burn but also to treat stomach
ulcers. I have a close friend from New York who has a very wise
Puerto Rican mother. My friend has a very stress ful job and at the
time she had developed gastric stomach ulcers. On one trip down to
visit her mother Maria in Puerto Rico, she complained about the
stomach ulcers. Her sweet mother went to her garden, cut off some
aloe plant stalks, squeezed out the pure pulp and boiled it in water to
make a tea. It tasted awful but she made my friend drink one cup in
the morning for 7 straight days. At the end of that 7 day period, my
friend's gastric ulcers were gone. When she went to her doctors in
New York, they were shocked. They had never seen anything like it.
Bottom line. Aloe is your stomach's friend. Drink it to stop heart burn.
Drink it to clear up persistent acid reflux or GERD.
Store Products. Mylanta, Quick Eze, Tums and Rolaids all work pretty
well if you have them handy.
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