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Belching - how bad it can be…

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

I just read this quite an interesting topic about uncontrolled belching and burping. It looks like this area of medicine is very undeveloped and lots of people don’t receive any help when going to docs.

Natural Home Heartburn Remedies

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

It seems that everyone is talking about the need to use natural acid reflux heartburn remedies but you seldom see actual recipes for these cures. Many of these time tested cures are rooted in folklore or oriental medicine. Conventional medical practice is to use either standard ant- acids or one of new prescription medications to control acid reflux and heartburn. Many natural medicine advocates and herbalists warn that taking a steady diet of ant-acids will lead to aluminum toxicity. However most credible research indicates there is no danger from taking ant-acids that contain aluminum unless you have other chronic illness. Never the less many people plain do not want to put anything unnatural into their bodies and natural remedies will give relief to these heartburn sufferers. (more…)

Natural remedies for gerd / Heart burn cures

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

Here is a list of what I think are the best out of home remedies for heart burn.

1) Slippery elm - it rocks! Make a tea out of slippery elm powder and it will coat your stomach with protective mucilage. I always have this powder with me and if I feel that heart burn is about to begin I take one cup before going to sleep. Note: take it warm - NOT hot, otherwise you can get opposite effect (hot liquid relaxes LES). (more…)

Chocolate, heartburn and your esophagus

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

I recently found quite an interesting paper on chocolate and esophagus. It looks like chocolate does decrease LES (lower esophagus sphincter) pressure :( … The way they propose to deal with it is to either take some antacids together with chocolate or bethanechol

I don’t like this solution. I just want to eat chocolate, just a chocolate alone! (more…)