Heart Burn or GERD

Heart Burn or GERD

Modern lifestyles and unhealthy eating habits lead to different stomach and intestinal diseases and disorders. Acidity, hyper acidity and ulcer are few of the stomach disorders that can be cure through yoga asana.  Yoga therapy not only provides acidity relief, yet improves digestion and facilitates internal cleansing too.
 
We strongly recommend MNLS 10 daily steps and change your life style to overcome this problem for ever. I have attached the above said file for you to read and change your life style for your well being. Eating of white rice is absolutely not good instead you can eat only brown rice.
 
You can eat fruits on empty stomach in the dinner, which will be very good for your health. Never mix cooked food and fruits together to eat.Never drink water with food . Drink only after two hours. Try your best to avoid Masala, salt, sugar and oil from your diet. Drink four to five liters of water every day for smooth bowl movement. You must ablate twice in the morning and one time in the evening for good health.

Burning sensation in the stomach due to excessive secretion of hydrochloric acid (HCL) may corrode the inner lining of stomach, and badly affected the other parts of digestive system. Prolonged acidity can cause chronic indigestion, arthritis, gout, IBS, ulcers etc.

Causes of Acidity and Heartburn

• Excess intake of pungent and sour food items.
• Drinking too much alcoholic beverages. 
• Hot food items. 
• Items like sweets, fermented foods. 
• Fried, spicy and fatty foods. 
• Gastric ulcer 
• Digestion problem 
• Obesity 
• Habit of skipping breakfast. 
• More secretion of Hydrochloric Acid(HCL) 
• Spending more time under sun or heat 
• More intake of chocolate, tea, coffee, garlic, onions 
• Excessive smoking.  
• Stress, anxiety and tension 
• Showing more anger, fear, worrying.  
• Drugs like aspirin   
• Negative emotion leads to gastric hyper acidity. 
• Irregular food habit 
• Reflux of gastric acid. 
• Pregnancy 
• Aging 
• Weakness of valves

Risk Factor of Acidity and Heartburn

•  Senior people of age more than 50 years
•  Obesity
•  Smoking
•  Pregnancy
•  Taking alcohol, coffee, or other high stimulants beverages

Yoga for Acidity, Heartburn, Intestinal Gas and Ulcer

Yogic and acidity

•     Vajrasana (Throne Pose)- helps to improve digestion, decrease constipation, reduce flatulence or gas and acidity.
•     Kunjal  (Stomach wash) can wash strong acid from stomach. It is a good example of Yoga for hyperacidity and beneficial for chronic acidity.
•     Paschimottanasana  (Head to knee) - this yoga pose treat acidity as well as helps in the improvement of digestion.
•     Bhujangasana (the Cobra Pose) massages the organs of digestive system, thus, helps to treat heartburn and yoga position for acidity.
•     Ardha matsyendrasana  (the Half Spinal twist Pose) treats digestive ailments like indigestion, acidity, gas problem and constipation.
•     Sarvangasana  (the Shoulder stand Pose) helps to remove various types of digestive ailments.    
•     Blood pressure may lead to acidity that can lessen by doing Meditation.
•     Corpse Posture helps in proper digestion.
•     Padahasthasana  (the Foot-hand Pose) massages and tones up the digestive organs and helps to improve digestion and cure gastritis.
•     Sasangasana  (Rabbit Pose),
•     Janu Shirsasana ( the Half back Stretching Pose)
•     Viparit Karni (Upside Down Pose)
•      Yoga postures like Tadasana (Mountain Pose) and Trikonasana (Triangle Pose) stretch and exercise the liver thereby reduces its acidic secretions.
•     Sitting poses like Padmasana (Lotus Pose) and relaxing pose like Shavasana (Corpse Pose) helps to decrease gas or flatulence and useful yoga therapy for peptic ulcer.
•     Virasana (Hero's Pose) reduces fat around the thighs and increases digestion too.
•     Makrasana (the Crocodile Pose)) massages the abdominal organs and reduces stress.
•     Ujjayi (Ocean Breath), Kapalbhatti (Forced Air) and Shitali Pranayam (Cool Breath) has the capacity to counter acidity and gastric ulcer.
•     Pavanamuktasana  (Wind Relieving Pose) is effective to get rid of gas.
•     Sheetali Pranayama ( the Cooling Breath) provides immediate relief from acidity  reflux and acidity in stomach.
•     Sheetkari pranayam (the Hissing Breath) help in reduction of burning sensation in the stomach and too ease from intestinal gas.

Courtesy: J K MEHTA
NLS Mentor