Homeopathic Remedies for Heartburn and Digestive Complaints

Even if you take the time to eat and provide healthy balanced meals, the accessibility to sodas, donuts, snacks, candy and fast food today, frequently undermine digestive health, causing the need for heartburn remedies. From the balancing support of homeopathic cell salts to a range of healing relief options that will not impair digestion, homeopathy can help you effectively treat heartburn and indigestion naturally. Here are some simple steps for restoring digestive balance and relieving discomfort from heartburn.  Each step takes you to a deeper level of involvement in the homeopathic remedy selection process.

Step #1 Fundamental Cell Salt Support

Helps digestive organs find what the cells need.

Level 1: Acidity Tissue C – Whether heartburn results from acidic foods or the acid the body has to make to digest food, the cell salts in this homeopathic combination help the body restore its ability to control acidity naturally. This helps ease heartburn, sour refluxes, and indigestion. Chalky drinks and tablets can ease acidity, but too often the body has to secrete even more acids to digest the food or send the food on less processed.

Level 2: Biliousness Tissue H – What once was called Biliousness or Liverishness is more often referred to as Sluggish or Slow Digestion today. Take your pick, it means the body’s digestion is overtaxed and depleted. The cell salts in this homeopathic combination remedy can help restore a natural balance, especially if combined with a diet of less bread (gluten), fats and sugar and more veggies, fiber and water. This tissue combination offers the body what it needs to ease heartburn, indigestion, abdominal pain, constipation, and purgative diarrhea.

Step #2 Specific Relief

Classic homeopathic formulas combine the key singles to relieve specific symptoms.

Level 1: Wise’s Gas Tabs offer on the spot, fast acting relief for gas, bloating and related symptoms.

Level 2: Indigestion #178 combines classic remedies plus those known as digestive aids (papaya and ginger) to improve digestion and ease gas, nausea and heartburn.

Level 3: Stomach Tabs Wise's 319- Boosts slow digestion to relieve gas, heartburn, colic and abdominal pain.

Level 4: Bilious #147 stimulates digestion and eases bilious nausea and sour vomiting.
We also offer Constipation #66 and Diarrhea #334.

Step #3: Targeted Approach

Finding the single remedy which best matches your symptoms can ease distress and, at times, address the source of the stress.

Single Homeopathic Cell Salts:

• Calcarea fluor - This cell salt’s digestive applications include help for infants vomiting undigested food, young children nauseous with too much stress, and adults with indigestion from fatigue – all with hiccups, flatulence and nausea after eating.

• Kali mur – When a white coated tongue and much saliva mark symptoms like heartburn, acidity, sour belching, poor appetite and diarrhea this cell salt can be a gentle solution.

• Nat phos - The acid neutralizing cell salt helps the body break down acids to relieve acid stomachs, sick headaches and gas as well as muscle pains due to lactic acid buildup.

• Natrum mur - Fluid balancing cell salt relieves burning gas, heartburn, nausea, throbbing stomach pain, constipation, frothy saliva and vomiting of white slimy mucus.

• Natrum sulph - This water distribution cell salt relieves slow digestion, bloating, biliousness, hiccups and sour green vomiting.

• Silica - A strengthening cell salt, it eases sluggish digestion, constipation, flatulence and a variety of skin and tissue conditions.

Single Homeopathic Remedies:

• Carbo veg - Provides fast relief of gas and related complaints like heartburn, belching, flatulence, bloating and pain.

• Hydrastis - Helps those whose sore stomachs make them loath food, which, if eaten, usually causes vomiting - the only exception may be watered down milk.

• Ignatia - Relieves indigestion in empty feeling stomachs with a lump in the throat sensation, often following grief, anger or other emotional turmoil.

• Ipecacuana - When nausea cannot decide whether to purge, Ipecac helps speed the decision and ease the effects. Symptoms include morning sickness, nauseating coughs, empty belching, much salivation and thirstlessness.

• Lycopodium - Helps lower gas and flatulence especially after over-eating brings on bloating, abdominal fullness and pain.

• Nux vom - The stress expert single offers natural relief for heartburn, knot-like stomach pain and gas with rumbling and flatulence due to stress, rich food, coffee or alcohol.

• Sulphur - In the digestive field, Sulphur helps with nausea, acidity, heartburn, offensive flatulence and morning diarrhea. Key indicators include a great appetite for sweets, chocolate, fats, spicy food, cold water and beer.

Even if we add Arsenicum alb and Veratrum for violent vomiting and diarrhea, Bryonia for constipation and Gelsemium for nervous stomachs and diarrhea, we could not cover all the options homeopathy has to address the sources and effects of digestive issues. See the Digestion category on our website to find the relief and support you need: http://www.1-800homeopathy.com/digestion.html

Happy Thanksgiving!

Homeopathic remedies minimize the effects of over-consumption without hindering the natural process.

As you might have noticed, Thanksgiving and other holiday feasting is fun until it's done. So before you overdo it again, this blog provides many clues to help the holiday pleasure continue after the feast. The only problem with general antacids is that we need our acids to digest all the food, so the body often has to compensate with more acids, or deal with less digested food.

Studies Reveal Heartburn Causes & Impact

Studies reveal insights into potential causes and effects of heartburn, indigestion and other digestive symptoms and warn us about the dangers of letting acid reflux and poor digestion go untreated.

Heartburn:

This article on Heartburn discusses the link between childhood obesity and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) plus links to respiratory conditions including asthma. It states:

“Corinna Koebnick, the study's lead author, said that children who suffer from acid reflux should be treated promptly to avoid experiencing this problem in adulthood as well as to ‘prevent its complications’."  Click here to read full article on heartburn causes.

Constipation:

In an article discussing the increasing issue of constipation in children, “Dr. Maria Oliva-Hemker, one of the researchers involved with the study, said that ‘the reality is that too many children are either not treated at all, start treatment too late or are treated inadequately,’ which leads to chronic constipation. There was a 30 percent increase in hospital visits among kids last year due to this health complication.”

It further states: “This problem needs to be addressed, according to the researchers, as it could have a severe impact on a child's life, including their academic performance.”
Click here to readh full article on Constipation.

Other studies link child abuse and cancer treatments to digestive issues, including hearturn and indigestion.