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For all you know, the history of heartburn might go back to the time of Adam and Eve. Ever since Adam had to look for his own food after being banished from the Garden of Eden, heartburn was to stay with mankind ever after. Eve was slightly better off, surviving on raw honey and plenty of apples throughout the remaining days of her life and in doing so, saving her delicate esophagus from GERD (Gastro-esophageal Reflux Disease) or acid reflux attacks. Taking cues from Eve however, we have tried using honey and apple cider vinegar to find relief from GERD induced heartburn.

However with time, people started to research and found other food items and cures too that could ease away the distress caused by GERD, and found the solutions listed below.

Finishing off your meals with curd helps to cure heartburn. Curd actually carries enzymes that help in digesting food thus eliminating the chances of acid reflux.

Basil leaves offer a natural cure for heartburn. Many believe that simply chewing Basil leaves during meals help in keeping heartburn at bay.

Apple cider vinegar is a popular choice as an antidote for GERD induced heartburn. Remember, only the “cloudy” part of the vinegar is effective in this regard. To make it even more potent, one can consider supplementing it with a concoction comprising two teaspoonfuls of original raw honey mixed in a glass of water. Apple cider vinegar and raw honey have been found to be especially effective in chronic heartburn cases.

A teaspoonful of baking soda in a glass of water to which a drop of lime has been added can provide immediate relief from heartburn.

You can also try a teaspoonful of yellow mustard for immediate relief.

You can get prolonged relief if you have tablespoonful of dark brown sugar every morning.

Consider having a red apple after dinner. You will be surprised at how well it works in lessening the frequency of a post-meal heartburn.

Fresh ginger or ginger tea is also good in relieving heartburn.

A glass of chilled milk also prevents heartburn to a great extent.

Finding a cure for heartburn is very important. That is because it seems that a huge section of the population is being affected with this disease, and even the kids are not spared from this. And so if you are affected, it is important that you never neglect the condition because it will lead to a lot of pain and discomfort, particularly in the night, and neglecting heartburn might also complicate the matter unnecessarily. So you must always seek heartburn cures as soon as possible. Why take the risk when a cure is indeed possible?

A few cures have been mentioned above for heartburn. However apart from using the above remedies, one should also change one’s lifestyle as per dictates of a holistic way of treatment of GERD heartburn. These include having several smaller meals in a day than having a seven course lunch or a spicy buffet where people consume food to their heart’s content. Spicy or fatty food and fast food are the biggest chums of heartburn and so should be avoided as hot coal. But holistic remedies achieve much more than just suggesting lifestyle and dietary changes. Holistic remedies treat the body as a whole and other than prescribing what to eat and promoting a healthy way of living, the remedy can also reach out to the root of the problem and fix it. This is why holistic remedies are so effective against heartburn. In fact, these remedies are much more effective than conventional medications that just treat the symptoms and do nothing else.