Natural Heartburn Relief
Filed Under Dr. Zoltan Rona (MD) |
You can relieve heartburn with a natural approach:
Eat frequent small meals throughout the day.
Therapeutic vegetable juices include carrot, spinach, beet, cucumber, parsley, celery, cabbage, and potato. These should be used liberally throughout the day (2 quarts daily).
Avoid meat, alcohol, hot sauces, spicy and fried foods, added salt, caffeine products, sugar, and refined carbohydrate products.
If you use aspirin, replace it with white willow bark capsules.
Supplements that have a healing effect include:
• L-glutamine (an amino acid)
• Essential fatty acids (flax seed oil, cod liver oil, salmon oil, evening primrose oil, borage oil, black currant oil)
• Licorice root tincture or herbal tea*
• Choline
• Lecithin
• PABA
• Bismuth
• Bentonite
• Goldenseal
• Slippery elm
• Burdock
• Aloe vera juice
• Lactobacillus acidophilus (probiotics)
• Bovine colostrum
• MSM (methyl sulfonyl methane)
*Please note that the glycyrrhetinic acid component of licorice can sometimes elevate blood pressure. The best way of getting around this problem and still take advantage of licorice’s ability to protect the gastrointestinal lining from acid irritation is to use deglycyrrhizinated licorice (DGL), which is available as lozenges that can be dissolved in the mouth several times daily for 6 weeks or longer.
Dr. Zoltan Rona
