Heartburn is very common and  unpleasant inconvenience faced by most of us. It is triggered when stomach acid backs up into the esophagus. It can make you feel as though someone has lit a small bonfire in your chest, and it’s burning its way up to your neck. Here are 14 home remedies for heart burns: Water  It is a good remedy for acid reflux. Drinking enough of water helps to dilute nasty stomach acid. Saliva  Our own saliva can end a acid reflux attack. The best way to create more saliva is to chew gum or suck on a mint or a piece of candy. Fresh Apples for heart burns  Red apple is a weapon against acid reflux. Apples contain pectin which works to bind any excess acid that gathers in the stomach. Just eating one slice of an apple before going to bed relieves the symptoms of acidity in some individuals. Ginger Tea  Fresh ginger root in boiling water and steeping for about 10 min and then drinking it helps a lot.  Aloe Vera juice Drinking Aloe Vera juice approximately 20 minutes before having your meals helps a lot in reducing the heart burns to a large extent. Fennel Seeds … Continue reading Top 14 home remedies to manage heart burns →

Does your stomach feel bloated all the time? Do you suffer from acidity and digestion?

Acidity is catabolic (breaks down) in nature. It is for this reason that it brings about chronic fatigue, low immunity, irritability, and mood swings.  Therefore, it is important to restore the pH levels in the body as continuing to have an acidic state would precipitate disease sooner or later.  The human body has self-healing powers. All we have to do is to support its activity with the right nutrients.  A basic rule to achieve and maintain PH balance is to eat 80% alkaline forming foods and 20% acid forming foods.  If your pH test suggests that your body is acidic switch over to alkaline forming food. Here is a list of alkaline forming foods. Watermelon Mangoes Apples Guava Pears Potatoes Dudhi Turi Honey Dates Corn Millets Mushrooms Raisins Curd At the same time, you must avoid acid forming substances such as: Alcohol Coffee Legumes Lentils Cornstarch White flour Non-vegetarian foods Fried food Dried coconut Cheese Cakes Pastries Pasta Soft drinks Sugar Vinegar Pickles Pappads Apart from food, both physical and mental stress tends to elevate the acidity of the blood. The effect of stress on acidosis is more profound than that caused by wrong eating.  When stress levels are very … Continue reading Restoring pH levels →

Today, more and more people are actively in the search for alternative methods of correcting illness and disease.

It is said that beauty is an inside job! Certain foods help the skin maintain its elasticity. If your skin is supple, your smiles or frowns can be rubbed off the face easily. But if your skin becomes dry, you get smile lines or frown lines imprinted on your face Wrinkles usually form when the skin loses its elasticity. To some extent, it is a result of aging. They first appear around the eyes and lips as in ‘laugh lines’. It is true that as we age, our skin becomes dryer and thinner, which leads to the formation of wrinkles. However, nutritional blunders committed by us cause the same deterioration of the skin identical to that caused by aging. One such blunder is an inadequate intake of vitamin C. It helps to form the connective tissue, makes the skin supple & prevents it from drying. You need to take at least 500mg of vitamin C daily to get its skin protecting benefit. This amount is available in a regular vitamin C supplement available in most pharmacies. Natural sources of vitamin C include guava, oranges, capsicums, cabbage, grape fruit, sour lime, papaya. Over exposure to sun is another factor that dries … Continue reading Are those Wrinkles or Just Nutritional Sins? →