Home Remedies to Stop Acidity

We've all suffered from it at some point or the other. We share tips to cure acidity ...

Acidity occurs when there is excess secretion of acids in the gastric glands of the stomach. When the secretion is more than usual, we feel, what is commonly known as heartburn, which is normally triggered off by consumption of spicy foods.

Here are the effective home remedies:

1. Take a glass of water with a piece of jaggery dissolved in it, after meals and any time acidity occurs.

2. Coconut water taken thrice a day keeps away acidity.

3. Watermelon and cucumber slices taken every hour relive one of acidity.

4. Soak a teaspoon of wheat in half a glass of water at night. Drink the water in the morning. This given relief from acidity for a long time.

5. Make a banana shake of one banana and a glass of milk. Drinking this gives immediate relief.

6. To get relief from acidity, drink the juice of one lemon mixed in glass of water every morning.

7. Cook four or five neem leaves with any vegetable every day for a week, and eat to be cured of acidity.

8. Dry a piece of neem bark and powder it. Add a tablespoon of it to five cups of water and boil it until the quantity reduces to two cups. Strain the liquid, and drink thrice daily in small quantities.

9. Grind together coriander seeds, green chilies, grated coconut, ginger and black grapes without seeds. Eat a spoon of this chutney after each meal.