Also known as: GERD · acid reflux · heartburn · hyperacidity · सीने में जलन · खट्टी डकार · तेज़ाब बनना · एसिडिटी · amlapitta
Food Remedies
Main remedy
Amla: being cooling and pitta-pacifying, amla is the chief remedy for acidity. Take two teaspoons of amla juice with equal mishri, or a spoon of amla powder with water on an empty stomach each morning.
2 tsp fresh durva (doob grass) juice with a little mishri, morning empty stomach — a classical pitta-cooler for burning acidity.
Traditional
मिश्री · Mishri
Mishri with cool water, or a piece sucked slowly, settles the burn quickly.
Traditional
पेठा · Ash gourd
Half a cup of ash-gourd (petha) juice on an empty stomach cools the stomach lining.
Traditional
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आँवला · Amla
being cooling and pitta-pacifying, amla is the chief remedy for acidity. Take two teaspoons of amla juice with equal mishri, or a spoon of amla powder with water on an empty stomach each morning.
Traditional
आलू · Potatoes
Half a cup of raw potato juice, half an hour before food on an empty stomach. Its alkalinity settles acid quickly.
Traditional
गुलाब · Rose
A spoon of gulkand with milk at night, or two spoons of rose water in cool water — it cools pitta.
Traditional
इलायची चाय · Cardamom tea
2 green cardamoms crushed and steeped in a cup of hot water, sipped after meals — cools the burn without the rebound soda gives.
Traditional
सौंफ चाय · Fennel tea
1 tsp fennel steeped in a cup of hot water after meals — unlike most digestive spices it is cooling, which is exactly why it suits acidity.
Traditional
On this page Documented — There are human studies behind this ingredient for this particular complaint. Traditional — Carried by tradition and experience; modern evidence for this particular complaint is limited.
All of this is what others have found — tradition, shared experience and the studies done so far. It is not advice given to any one person. Before changing your diet, and especially if you take any medicine, ask your dietician or doctor.
Naturopathy
Sip cold water slowly through the day; never eat when upset. Cold abdominal pack for twenty minutes before the evening meal.
Vajrasana for five minutes after every meal; Sheetali pranayama eight rounds.
Bhojanveda
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