Home remedy for heartburn?!
Question:
Home remedy for heartburn?
I seem to get heartburn or reflux at night while I am laying in bed watching tv.
What home remedies work for this?
Thanks!!!
Answers:
Hydrochloric Acid supplement (pill), Apple Cider Vinegar... or other acid taken before your meal...
The irony is that heartburn is usually caused by LOW stomach acid levels, so after you eat a hard-to-digest food (and your stomach can't break it down) it revs up your internal acid production and causes a burning sensation... but by then the food has moved via peristalsis past your stomach into your small intestine, so the acid your stomach produced just burns you, not your food. (Your stomach is making the acid when it is all ready too late, but doesn't have high enough levels when the food first goes in and is in the stomach)... that is why you are feeling the burn at night, quite a while after your meal... not during your meal.
If you take hydrochloric acid (same as stomach acid) with your meal, your food will digest and you won't get the burn... or you can drink a couple tablespoons of vinegar right before your meal for the same effect... if this doesn't work, perhaps you have an ulcer or other problem... if it does work, great!!!
Tums and other calcium-based antacids will work against you in the long run... they provide temporary relief by lowering your stomach acid (calcium is alkaline) but then the after-effect will be worse because your stomach will make even MORE acid in response with a worse burn...