Dousing Flames With Medicinal Herbs for Treating Heartburn
When stomach acid backs up into your esophagus, you feel a burning pain. A trapdoor of muscular tissue usually keeps the stomach acid where it belongs. Large meals as well as certain kinds of foods lead to heartburn -- when the trapdoor opens and allows the acid to leak upwards. Best way to douse these flames is to use medicinal herbs for treating heartburn rather than medications which may at times aggravate heartburn.
Douse the Flames
Dandelion a common weed found in the backyard which is a native American medicine as well as used in traditional Chinese medicine. A good use of dandelion is the dandelion tea. Herbalists recommend adding hot boiling water to a mixture of both leaves (fresh or dried) and flowers for a bitter dandelion tea which has immense curative properties. An alternative to this, if dandelion doesn't agree with your system, is milk thistle found in abundance in the Mediterranean region. Certain medicinal herbs for treating heartburn like chamomile and meadowsweet help to decrease acidity levels in the stomach. Linseed, probably one of the oldest medicinal crop known to human species for its curative properties and therapeutic values is increasingly becoming popular all over the world. Besides its many medicinal usages, it is known for its cure in digestive and respiratory ailments.
Herbs such as flax, fenugreed (seeds), slippery elm, help to soak up excess stomach acid. Douse the flames of heartburn with a preparation of herbs prepared as a tea used since time immemorial to soothe stomach pains of babies. A preparation of chamomile, lemon balm, catnip, fennel and slipper elm brewed in to a tea is a soothing drink.
Other medicinal herbs for treating heartburn prepared as a tea is gingerroot. Add freshly grated gingerroot to one cup of boiling water, steep for ten minutes, and drink. Long used to quell the nausea caused by motion sickness, ginger helps to relax the muscles that line the wals of the esophagus so that stomach acids don't get pushed upwards.
Tea made from anise, caraway, or fennel seed are some medicinal herbs for treating heartburn according to herbalists. Add two teaspoons of any of them to one cup of boiling water steep for 10 minutes, strain, and drink.
Practitioners of Ayurvedic medicine, the traditional medicine of India, prescribe teas made of crushed cinnamon or cardamom as medicinal herbs for treating heartburn. Add one teaspoon of either crushed or powdered herb to one cup boiling water, steep, strain, and drink.
