Acidity: Causes, Tips & Home Remedies

Acidity: Causes, Tips & Home Remedies

Acidity (Acid Reflux): Causes and Home Remedies 

 

Acidity (Acid Reflux) is the most common problem that every person faces after eating acid-containing food. Acidity (Acid Reflux) impacts our daily life and doesn’t let us focus on work, sour burp, sore throat, and inflammation in the stomach are the common signs of Acidity (Acid Reflux). Acidity (Acid Reflux) is highly prevalent among older people. Long untreated Acidity (Acid Reflux) leads us to constipation and can become more severe. Our body produces acid from the food we consume, and that acid helps in the digestion of food. When we produce too much amount of acid, then it causes Acidity (Acid Reflux). 

 

 

 

What is Acidity (Acid Reflux)?

Our body has multiple glands in it, one of them is the gastric gland, a gland that is responsible for producing acid in the body for digestion. Acidity (Acid Reflux) occurs when the gastric gland produces extra acid in the body than is required. Acidity (Acid Reflux) gives us a burning sensation in the chest and stomach along with sour burps and sore throat. Acidity (Acid Reflux) mostly occurs because of the unhealthy food and the bad lifestyle we live. 

 

What are the symptoms of Acidity (Acid Reflux)?

These are a few major symptoms of Acidity (Acid Reflux) mentioned below:

  • The sensation of chest burning or heart burning 
  • Bloating or feeling of the belly is tight and full 
  • Black and burned black stool 
  • Sour burping
  • The sour and acidic liquid comes to the mouth 
  • Stomach pain 
  • The sensation of a hiccup that won’t come above the throat
  • Bloody stool
  • Inflammation or burning sensation in the stomach
  • Unhungry feeling
  • Nausea or vomiting

 

What are the causes of Acidity (Acid Reflux)?

Acidity (Acid Reflux) occurs because of many reasons, but a few of the major and common causes of Acidity (Acid Reflux) are mentioned below:

  • Overconsumption of food
  • Immediate laying after a meal
  • Medication for certain illness
  • Overweight and obesity 
  • Bad lifestyle habit
  • Hernia 
  • Smoking habit
  • Alcohol consumption 
  • Consumption of unhealthy food like fried food, packaged food, and processed food
  • Bad sleeping routine 
  • Wrong appetite 
  • Bad medical condition
  • Pregnancy 

 

What are the complications of Acidity (Acid Reflux)?

Acidity (Acid Reflux) can create many complications a few of them are mentioned below-

  • Constipation
  • Digestive problem
  • Bloating
  • Nausea
  • Heartburn
  • Stomach Pain
  • Gaseous issues
  • Chest pain

 

Dos and Don’ts for Acidity (Acid Reflux)

Follow the following tips mentioned below to treat your Acidity (Acid Reflux) at home:

  • Eat healthy food
  • Walk after a meal
  • Avoid consumption of alcohol
  • Quit smoking
  • Don’t consume acid-rich food like citrus fruits and juices 
  • Eat a banana, watermelon etc 
  • Lose your weight if you are obese or overweight 
  • Decrease the consumption of tomato and tomato mixed beverages 
  • Eat at least 2 hours before sleeping
  • Change your appetite and follow a certain routine of eating
  • Identify the cause of Acidity (Acid Reflux) and change it

 

Home remedies for Acidity (Acid Reflux):

Follow the home remedies mentioned below to reduce the problem of Acidity (Acid Reflux):

 

First home remedy for Acidity (Acid Reflux):

Ingredients: Basil leaves and 2 cups of water

Step 1: Take around 10-15 leaves of basil.

Step 2: And mix them into the 2 cups of water and boil it till water remains half of its initial quantity 

Instructions: Drink this mixture regularly after a meal. 

 

Second home remedy for Acidity (Acid Reflux):

Ingredients: Cloves

Steps: take a clove and chew it

Instructions: If you have a burning sensation in the stomach, chewing a clove regularly helps to reduce the burning sensation in the stomach.

 

Third home remedy for Acidity (Acid Reflux):

Ingredients: Milk

Step 1: take a certain amount of milk and boil it

Step 2:  After boiling it, cool it and extract the cream from it.

Instructions: Drink this chilled milk if you feel a burning sensation in the chest or you feel heartburning.

 

Fourth home remedy for Acidity (Acid Reflux):

Ingredients: Cardamom and a big glass of water

Step 1: Take a few cardamoms and grind them using a traditional crusher

Step 2:  Mix the crushed cardamoms into the water, and boil the water till water turn half of its earlier quantity. Strain the cardamom water using a sieve.

Instructions: Drink a cup of this liquid regularly for quick relief from Acidity (Acid Reflux).

 

Fifth home remedy for Acidity (Acid Reflux):

Ingredients: Cumin seed, crystal sugar, and coriander seed

Step 1: Powder all these ingredients using the blender.

Step 2: Mix all these ingredients.

Instructions: Take a spoon of this powder regularly after breakfast, lunch, and dinner

 

Sixth home remedy for Acidity (Acid Reflux):

Ingredients: Carrom seed, dry ginger, and black salt

Step 1: Powder the carrom seed and the dry ginger using the blender.

Step 2:  Take a pinch of black salt and mix it with carrom seed powder and ginger powder.

Instructions: Consume a spoon of this mixed powder with a cup of warm water.

 

Seventh home remedy for Acidity (Acid Reflux):

Ingredients: Carrom seeds, black salt, and pomegranate juice

Step 1: Powder the carrom seeds and take 3 spoons of them.

Step 2:  Mix it with pomegranate juice and a pinch of black salt

Instructions: Drink this mixture regularly 

 

Eighth home remedy for Acidity (Acid Reflux):

Ingredients: Ginger, 500 ml of water, and carrom seed

Step 1: Chop the ginger to make multiple slices

Step 2:  Boil the water with chopped ginger and ½ a spoon of carrom seed

Instructions: Drink this mixture for instant relief 

 

Top 5 Best food to reduce Acidity (Acid Reflux) in the body

  • Consume green vegetables like spinach, fenugreek, ladyfinger or okra, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, etc.
  • Consumption of bananas, watermelon, apples, pomegranates etc helps reduce the acid from the body
  • Start consuming legumes like beans, green beans, etc.
  • Regular consumption of salad of cucumber and radish helps
  • Ginger soup intake in the body also helps 

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