Heartburn Solutions from 3 Home Remedies

Can home remedies allow you to get rid of heartburn? Tens of millions of victims worldwide would love to know after have been disappointed by so-called solutions from classical medicine. These conventional solutions only give short-term results at the price of a multiple side effects and really only fuel the demand for more effective and safer options to truly bring long-term relief. Luckily, home remedies exist to give immediate relief for the majority of heartburn sufferers when selected and applied correctly.

Heartburn is the symptom of a feeling of pain or burning in the chest or the throat, often during or after eating. When this happens twice a week or more, it's potentially a sign of GERD (gastro esophageal reflux disease) that is also called acid reflux.

GERD happens when the muscle operating the opening between the esophagus and the stomach (the lower esophageal sphincter) opens at the wrong time and lets stomach acid "reflux" or flow back into the esophagus from the stomach. These acids then attack the epithelial cells in the lining of the esophagus and cause the pain known as heartburn.

Other than heartburn, acid reflux can also show up as a salty taste in the mouth, dry coughing, nausea, recurring hoarseness and nocturnal asthma attacks. Over time, chronic acid reflux causes sufficiently severe damage to the lower esophagus to turn into a condition called Barrett's esophagus and even cancer. For this reason, a speedy intervention to treat GERD is imperative.

Elements leading to GERD include:

1. Wrong diet plans and intake of big meals that block digestion and help the build-up of toxins and stomach acids. This in turn disables the immune system and slows the digestion, opening the door for Candida overgrowth which makes for additional aggravation of your existing acid reflux condition). For people who are overweight, this puts more pressure on the abdomen and thence on the stomach acids that leak back even more into the esophagus.

2. Poor sleep hygiene also damages the immune system.

There are however simple and easy to obtain home remedies for alleviating GERD symptoms, even if they do not address the fundamental causes:

1. 2 teaspoons of natural honey (pure, unprocessed and unheated) taken after a meal will relieve esophageal inflammation via the benefit of its documented properties as an antibacterial, antiviral, antioxidant, and antibiotic agent.

2. In a similar way, a tablespoon of organic apple cider vinegar on an empty stomach, taken once a day, will act as in intestinal cleanser via its antiseptic and antibiotic properties. It will also contribute to re-establishing the right acid alkaline balance in the intestines (acid reflux is often aggravated by excessive acidity in the intestines and in the blood).

3. Lowering the foot of your bed by six to eight inches will help to keep gastric juices out of your esophagus. You need to make sure that the entire surface of your bed is on a slight incline, either by replacing the legs at the far end with shorter ones, or by raising the head of the bed with wooden blocks, for example.

These techniques can certainly help to give immediate and safe relief, but they are not long-term answers. For that, a full, holistic, all-natural treatment is the only one to eliminate your acid reflux problem permanently by addressing the fundamental and often hidden causes of GERD.




Jeff Martin is a medical researcher, certified nutritionist, health consultant and author of the #1 best-selling e-book, "Heartburn No More- Open The Door To an Acid Reflux Free Life". Jeff has written dozens of holistic health articles and has been featured in ezines and print magazines, as well as on hundreds of websites worldwide.

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